A comparison of the characteristics of gardeners, their motivations for gardening and management practices of Blackacre Community Garden and Limerick Community Garden in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Using four surveys, two created by this researcher, another created by Walizcek, Mattson, and Zajicek, and a fourth created by Herbach, the researcher compared the characteristics of community gardeners, their motivations for gardening, and the management practices of the inner-city Limerick Community Garden and the suburban Blackacre Community Garden in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The researcher hypothesized that the location of the garden could be influential in determining who the gardeners are and what their motivations for gardening are. The inner-city garden was expected to have a more diverse gardener population than the suburban garden. The researcher expected to find marked differences in management of the two gardens based on their location and the fact that one was administered through the city government and the other through the county government.; Results indicated that the gardeners who participated in the study are more similar than different. Results indicated that the community garden program is more of a grass-roots effort, while the county community gardening program is more of top-down approach. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)...