[CPEO-BIF] Land Tenure and Community Gardens in Providence, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Taking Root: Land Tenure and Community Gardens
in Providence, Rhode Island

by Robert Hersh
CPEO and Worcester Polytechnic Institute
July 2010


For three decades, the Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) in 
Providence Rhode Island has carried on the long, but under-recognized 
tradition of community gardening in the United States. It has employed 
multiple strategies: the outright purchase of brownfields and other 
vacant properties, partnerships with affordable housing organizations 
and watershed groups, education and outreach to promote community 
gardening beyond individual garden plot holders, and organizing 
politically for more secure land tenure.



To download the 11-page 6.6. PDF, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/TakingRoot.pdf	

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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