Fifteen of the 20 programs surveyed maintained
only one community garden each, two programs main-
tained 2±3 gardens each, and three programs main-
tained 13±14 gardens each. Table 1 shows selected
characteristics of the 20 community garden programs
surveyed, as reported by the program coordinators.
Five programs were located in rural areas and 15 pro-
grams were located in urban and suburban areas.
Most of the programs (90%) had less than 200 garden-
ers participating; the larger programs, with greater
numbers of participating gardeners, were located in
urban areas. All of the community garden programs
that were located in rural areas were operated with the
support of at least one paid sta. One of the rural pro-
grams and four of the urban programs were operated
by Cooperative Extension, the remaining were oper-
ated by private organizations. One half of the pro-
grams reported having 10 or more regular volunteers
helping with the operation of their program, one half
of the programs distributed a regular program newslet-
ter. In addition, 90% of the programs provided techni-
cal support to individual gardeners, 30% provided
educational classes, 80% provided soil tilling to gar-
deners, and 55% provided seeds and seedlings (data
not shown).