American Community Gardening Association Conference September 27-30, 2023, Houston, Texas
Founded in Chicago in 1979, ACGA is registered as a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a grassroots non-profit advocacy organization focused on community gardening. Our mission is to build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening and greening across the United States and Canada.
With over 1,000 individual and 252 organizational members, we link 2100 gardens across Canada and the US, ranging from family allotments to tiny pollinator pocket parks, and from school gardens to urban farms. Our proudly diverse membership includes active community gardeners, supportive volunteers, garden organizing and sponsoring organizations, governmental agencies, and horticultural professionals including teachers, horticultural therapists, Cooperative Extension agents, landscape architects, and academic researchers.
The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) will host our National Conference, September 27-31, 2023. If you are interested in urban agriculture then you should be a part of the amazing conference. This is the perfect opportunity for you to learn, share, network and have a stomping good time with all types of people in the greening movement. We welcome everyone to this conference, with its inspiring theme of “Celebrating The Diversity In Growing”. Community Gardens are diverse and inclusive, we value diversity of age, race, gender, orientation, perspective and approach. If you have not yet registered, please go to our website communitygarden.org and sign up.
