A variety of community organizations and private businesses were involved with the gardens by providing
the program coordination and/or the land, by cultivating a plot, or by providing volunteer labor in the gardens. These organizations included the Hunger Action Network, Ameri Corps, Aids Housing Project, a battered women's shelter, day-care center, children's theater group, after-school organization for teens, a rehabilitation program for the developmentally disabled, and gardens located on the properties of an urban office building and a Coca Cola plant. In 28%
of the gardens, a local school or church maintained a plot in the community garden. Variations in the physical structuring and organization of gardens were related to the types of community groups involved, especially depending on the primary organizer. For example, some gardens were managed as a single garden which everyone cultivated together, rather than
being split into separate plots that were maintained by individual gardeners