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Community gardens – good for the economy?

June 8, 2006 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

You knew gardens are good for the community, but now you can put numbers to it:

From a NYU Law and Economics Research Paper:

We find that the opening of a community garden has a statistically significant positive impact on residential properties within 1000 feet of the garden, and that the impact increases over time. We find that gardens have the greatest impact in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Higher quality gardens have the greatest positive impact. Finally, we find that the opening of a garden is associated with other changes in the neighborhood, such as increasing rates of homeownership, and thus may be serving as catalysts for economic redevelopment of the community.

Via City Farmer.

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