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The Urban Garden Project (UGP), led by Denver Urban Gardens (DUG), is a national initiative dedicated to strengthening and advancing the community garden movement through shared learning, collaboration, and advocacy. UGP positions community gardens as essential urban infrastructure—“must-haves,” not “nice-to-haves”—for building healthy, equitable, and climate-resilient cities. | The Urban Garden Project (UGP), led by Denver Urban Gardens (DUG), is a national initiative dedicated to strengthening and advancing the community garden movement through shared learning, collaboration, and advocacy. UGP positions community gardens as essential urban infrastructure—“must-haves,” not “nice-to-haves”—for building healthy, equitable, and climate-resilient cities. | ||
By connecting organizations, securing long-term funding, and providing shared operational resources such as back-office support, group insurance, and collective fundraising models, UGP helps local leaders focus on what truly matters: growing food, nurturing community, and creating lasting systems of resilience. | By connecting organizations, securing long-term funding, and providing shared operational resources such as back-office support, group insurance, and collective fundraising models, UGP helps local leaders focus on what truly matters: growing food, nurturing community, and creating lasting systems of resilience. | ||
=====By 2035, increase the proportion of urban garden parcels safe from development or legal threats from 44% to 75%.===== | |||
[https://williampennfoundation.org/objective/urban-gardens by WilliamPennFoundation] | |||
The benefits of gardens to city residents are well documented – they add greenspace to neighborhoods, positively impact physical and mental well-being, serve as a place where community members connect with one another, and are a source of local food options. In many cases, these spaces are serving communities that need them the most. About 70% of Philadelphia's active urban gardens and farms are in communities where more than 20% of the population lives below the poverty level; approximately 67% of the gardens are also in high-poverty areas where the population of people of color is greater than 50%. | |||
