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  • Tuesday, September 22, 4:00 pm Eastern – Planning, Designing, & Creating Your Community Garden, Online

    Ready to rethink how you plan, design, and create your community garden?

    Join The Urban Garden Project on Zoom on September 22 at 4 pm Eastern for an upcoming UGP Workshop featuring Aaron Michael of Earth Love Gardens for an engaging conversation about Planning, Designing, and Creating Your Community Garden.

    Whether you’re starting a new garden, redesigning an existing space, or looking for ways to make your garden more functional and welcoming, this workshop will offer practical ideas and inspiration to help bring your vision to life.

    What makes a great community garden? How do you design a space that works for your community? What should you consider when planning and creating your garden?

    Come learn, share, and connect with other community garden leaders and organizers! Free. Register at https://theurbangardenproject.org/learn

  • Tuesday, September 10, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon Eastern – 1 Staff, 40 Gardens, Designing Systems That Support Self Governance

    The Urban Garden Project is holding a free webinar on Zoom on September 10 at 11 Eastern with Omar Brownson of the Los Angeles Community Garden Council.

    How do community gardens remain self-governing while still receiving meaningful support? The Los Angeles Community Garden Council operates with one full-time staff member supporting nearly 2,000 gardeners across 40 volunteer-led gardens. This constraint has forced a design question that many garden networks now face: what systems are necessary—and which ones to let go of to support better local autonomy?

    This workshop shares how LACGC experiments with lightweight systems of support—including peer learning, a self-guided Community Garden Manager Certificate (hosted on Mighty Networks) and a separate Garden AI prototype— to strengthen leadership, continuity, and shared standards without centralizing control. Participants will explore how different governance contexts (all-volunteer gardens vs. gardens supported by nonprofits or government agencies) call for different system designs—and how right-sized tools can support self-governance rather than replace it.

    To register visit https://theurbangardenproject.world/connect-%26-learn-1