A variety of community organizations and private
businesses were involved with the gardens by providing
the program coordination and/or the land, by cultivat-
ing a plot, or by providing volunteer labor in the gar-
dens. These organizations included the Hunger Action
Network, Ameri Corps, Aids Housing Project, a bat-
tered women's shelter, day-care center, children's thea-
ter group, after-school organization for teens, a
rehabilitation program for the developmentally dis-
abled, and gardens located on the properties of an
urban oce 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 physi-
cal structuring and organization of gardens were re-