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Community gardens in Nebraska

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357: 24:. A community garden is a piece of land collectively farmed by several people and may be created by local residents purchasing or taking over a vacant plot, or by an institution such as a church donating land to the community. In Nebraska many of the community gardens are to be found in or near the principal cities of 77:
The Big Garden began in 2005. Initially funded by the USDA's Community Food Project, the Big Garden had a goal of creating 12 community gardens in three years. Five years later the Big Garden included 26 gardens in the metro-Omaha area and added a sister project, the Big Rural Garden, in Southeast
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has 13 community gardens as of May 2014. All of these are full and the organising institution, Community CROPS (Combining Resources, Opportunities, and People for Sustainability), which was founded in 2003 with one garden, is now looking for new sites around Lincoln. In addition to the community
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called the Cherry Street Community Garden was started in 2014, with 10 by 10 feet (3.0 m × 3.0 m) plots available for rent, supported by a city councilwoman and the adjacent Cherry Street Apartments complex.
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Nebraska. Today, the Big Garden is a network of over 100 community gardens in metro-Omaha and rural and semi-rural communities in Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa---and growing!
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neighborhood of Omaha. The garden site is located at 4902 Underwood. Dundee Community Garden is one of the most notable. Dundee Community Garden is a member of the
57:. The garden was founded on a vacant lot in 2009 by a group of local residents. In early 2013, Dundee Community Garden Inc., received non-profit status as a 54: 370: 519: 660: 222: 550: 628: 465: 66: 356: 341: 33: 62: 390: 86: 524: 443: 438: 226: 217: 29: 17: 529: 362: 50: 85:" was held in Omaha in 2014 with approximately 100 bicycle riders visiting 8 gardens and a 25: 649: 395: 137: 352: 505: 61:
organization. After a fundraising campaign, which included support from the
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community gardens
Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
Grand Island
Dundee
American Community Gardening Association
501(c)(3)
Sherwood Foundation
Peter Kiewit Foundation
root facility
City Sprouts
Lincoln, Nebraska
community supported agriculture
farmers' market
Grand Island
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Gardening portal
Community gardens in Omaha, Nebraska
"community gardens in Nebraska"
Google Search
"Dundee Community Garden (homepage)"
"Community steps up to replant stolen garden"
Omaha World-Herald
"American Community Gardening Association: Dundee Community Garden"
"Dundee Community Garden: About"
Guidestar
"Dundee Community Garden kicks off spring planting season"
Omaha World-Herald
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