Tag: community garden

  • Reimagining Vacant Space: Justin Moore receives ioby’s 2012 award

    ioby’s 2012 Heroes in Our Backyards: Reimagining Vacant Space from ioby on Vimeo. Justin Moore was awarded ioby’s 2012 the Heroes In Our Backyards award.  He was chosen for his work on behalf of a neighborhood gardening project Urban Patch in his home town, the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood of Indianapolis.  Every year, ioby awards project leaders that exemplify the ioby spirit of community activism.  In…

  • Building a Common Ground: Integrating Community, Gardens and the Built Environment

    The American Community Gardening Association states that its vision is to have a sustainable community in every garden.  It is a vision that has been playing out across the landscape and in a range of contexts.  This post shares a couple of case studies of how this is being done in new building development projects…