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Our Fellow Sheryll Durrant explains the Data Collection Toolkit at the ACGA workshop.
Community gardening offers a great way to produce food that is local, healthy, and environmentally and financially sustainable. To demonstrate this groundbreaking impact for funders and policy makers, gardeners need to know
– in numbers
– all the good things growing in their gardens. But how can we streamline collecting data and yield useful results?
Community gardening enthusiasts across the nation joined us for a hands-on workshop exploring the free Farming Concrete Data Collection Toolkit. The Design Trust team, in collaboration with Farming Concrete, developed the toolkit consulting with over 30 farmers and gardeners, to help them set goals and evaluate their work.
At the workshop, we introduced our online suite of tools for collecting data: The Barn allows farmers and gardeners to input and track their production internally; and the Mill provides public access to raw data and reports, derived from the Barn, for use of general public, policymakers and funders.
The Farming Concrete Project Director Mara Gittleman, Design Trust Fellow Sheryll Durrant, and Design Trust program director Rosamond Fletcher were on hand to answer all questions.
Watch the new instructional videos, created by our Fellow Christopher Englese, to learn how to use the data collection toolkit.
Input and track your garden's production online at the Barn.
Access public data on the Mill, to find out more about the good things that urban farmers and gardeners have been producing.
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