A standardized telephone interview was adminis-
tered to community garden program coordinators
between August 1997 and August 1998. The inter-
views required 30 min to 3 h to administer, depend-
ing on the number of gardens in a program. In
general, the interviews were well received despite the
length, since most coordinators enjoyed the opportu-
nity to describe their garden programs. Two ques-
tions, regarding the surrounding neighborhoods
where gardens were located and regarding antici-
pated long-term use of the land on which gardens
were sited, were added after the ®rst two programs
were interviewed. Data from the interviews were
computerized using Microsoft Excel and data analy-
sis was conducted using SAS 6.02. Information was
collected on both the characteristics of garden pro-
grams and on all of the individual gardens in each
of the programs