National Gardening

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National Gardening

Note:  In June, 2000, we ceased publication of National Gardening 
magazine in order to focus our efforts on providing the most up-to-date, 
comprehensive, and easily accessible gardening content on the Web. 
For 20 years the magazine was dedicated to fostering a sense of community 
among gardeners and helping them be better informed and more successful. 

http://www2.garden.org/nga/EDIT/home.html (Link 
inactive 24 June 2004)

http://www.garden.org/
(Link active 24 June 2004)

National Gardening is a partial electronic verison of the print magazine
of the same title published by the National Gardening Association.

For more than twenty years, the National Gardening Association has been
doing two things: helping gardeners and helping people through gardening.
Founded in 1972 (as "Gardens for All") to spearhead the community garden
movement, today's National Gardening Association (NGA) is best known for
its high-quality publication, National Gardening Magazine, its innovative
science education programs and its garden-related research. 

Even though we are the largest nonprofit gardening organization in the
country, we're still a small, personal and responsive group. In our short
history, we have reached out with gardening to revitalize communities,
feed the hungry, teach respect for the environment, and provide educators
with innovative and effective teaching methods and materials through our
Growing Ideas Catalog.

And we're just beginning -- we're planning many exciting new programs. 
Strengthening the connections between people and the environment: In an
age when fewer and fewer people have direct experience with agriculture or
gardening because they live in cities with more steel than soil, giving
people the opportunity to experience the miracle of life first-hand is
becoming increasingly important. We can't expect citizens to protect the
environment if they have no experience with it. If we are serious about
becoming better stewards of the planet, we must teach more people--
especially children-- about the interdependence and fragility of life on
earth. Gardening is the perfect medium for this. It's relatively
inexpensive and can take place on a small scale, indoors or out. It's easy
to do (plants have a way of growing, even without our help), and it offers
immediate and tangible rewards. In short, gardening is a great way to
teach and inspire. 

Contact:

dan@garden.org