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Steps to a Healthier Cleveland 2006 Community Garden Report Steps to a Healthier Cleveland 2006 Community Garden Report Prepared by: Matthew E. Russell, MNO Center for Health Promotion Research Case Western Reserve University & Morgan Taggart Ohio State University-Cuyahoga County Extension 2/1/2007 Contact Information: Matt Russell Center for Health Promotion Research Case Western Reserve University 11430 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Phone: 216.368.1918 Email: [email protected] Morgan Taggart The Ohio State University Extension Cuyahoga County Office 9127 Miles Road Cleveland, Ohio 44105 Phone: 216.429.8246 Email: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements………………………….……..………………………………………..3 Map of Steps Intervention Neighborhoods……..………………………………………..4 Introduction………………..………....………………………..………………………….5-7 PART I. Steps Community Urban Garden Network Profiles…………...………..8-24 Steps Garden Summary Data…………..…….…..……………………...25-29 PART II. Cleveland Residents; Food Perceptions (BRFSS Data)……………..30-33 PART III. Resource Development……...….……………………….………………….34 Website Development……………………………… . …………………………… . 35 Citywide Garden Locator Map (Reference Data)…..…………………….36-57 Limitations and Conclusion……………………………………………………….…......58 References…………………………………………………………………………………...59 A p p e n d i x ………………………………………………………………………………… 6 0 Garden Participation Survey……...………………………..……………….. Appendix A Garden Inventory Questionnaire……………………………………….….…Appendix B Acknowledgements A special thanks to the following people for their help and guidance throughout this project…... Cleveland Gardener Community Steps Community Garden Leaders Jennifer Scofield M.A., Cleveland Department of Public Health Punam Ohri-Vachaspati Ph.D., OSUE Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program Kristen Mikelbank M.A., Case Western Reserve University - Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change Robert Fischer Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University - Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change Elaine Borawski Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University - Center for Health Promotion Research Katie Przepyszny M.A., Case Western Reserve University - Center for Health Promotion Research Meghan Estes, Cleveland Department of Public Health Nick Romans, Sore Thumb Media (Web Design) Ann L Vander-Schrier M.A., Case Western Reserve University - Center for Statistics and Geospatial Data - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Steps to a Healthier Cleveland: Intervention Neighborhoods Legend Steps Intervention Neighborhoods 2006 Intervention Neighborhood • Intervention Neighborhood added in 2007 Cleveland Neighborhood e Greater Cleveland Region i E r e k Forest Hills L a 0 1.5 3 6 Miles St.Clair-Superior Hough Ohio City Central Fairfax Detroit Shoreway Kinsman Tremont Woodland Hills North Broadway Clark-Fulton (Slavic Village) Stockyards South Broadway Bellaire-Puritas Prepared by: Center for Health Promotion Research, CASE 1/15/2007 4 Project Overview Steps to a Healthier Cleveland (Steps) is a citywide health promotion initiative facilitated by the Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH). For the past three years, Steps has been working to establish new and support existing community vegetable gardens throughout a number of Cleveland neighborhoods. The garden programming is intended to promote healthier lifestyle choices among program participants through nutrition and health education and by providing greater access and opportunity for participation in community gardening activities. The Center for Health Promotion Research (CHPR) at Case Western Reserve University (CASE) was contracted by CDPH to collect information on the gardens for both evaluation and program development. This report provides an overview of the Steps supported community garden programs, location specific. Additionally, this report provides the results from the 2006 Cleveland Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), conducted with 1451 Cleveland residents. The survey participants were asked several questions intended to capture the perceptions of Cleveland residents on local food production, access to locally grown produce, and their overall participation, knowledge about, and interest in community gardens. This data provides baseline information on citywide urban garden participation and knowledge and interest in local food production. Part I: Steps Urban Garden Bios Part I contains a one page description for ten (10) gardens found throughout the city. Data was collected through personal interviews, surveys, and observation. Pictures were taken onsite. The garden information is organized by neighborhood and preceded by a simple neighborhood description. Part II: Steps Community Garden Summary Part II provides an overview of data collected from the ten (10) gardens and twenty-one (21) gardeners. Data is summarized to provide an overall sketch of the gardening programs and activities. 5 Part III: Community Awareness and Interest in Local Food Production Part III provides citywide data collected on knowledge and interest in local food production. This includes information on resident familiarity with local garden programming, community interest in future gardening, and attitudes towards regional food production. Part IV: Resource Development The final goal of this effort was to identify and address community gardening resource needs. Part IV contains an overview of two new resources developed to enhance overall programming and evaluation: A) a community garden website and B) a citywide garden locator map and reference. Primary Support Organizations Steps to a Healthier Cleveland works in collaboration with the Ohio State University Extension Community Garden Program (OSUE) and the City of Cleveland’s Division of Neighborhood Services Summer Sprout program to provide a variety of support services to Cleveland gardens. The following section provides an overview of the aforementioned citywide garden support organizations. Ohio State University Extension Community Garden Program: The Community Gardening Program recruits, instructs and supports volunteer leaders as they establish and maintain productive community vegetable gardens in Cleveland and throughout Cuyahoga County. As part of their services to community gardeners, they are on hand to: • Provide free workshops on topics such as basic gardening, nutrition, and pest and disease diagnostics; • Work with new and current garden leaders on starting and maintaining community gardens via phone, written material, and site visits; • Connect participants to each other, local resources, and events of interest; • Publish The Community Gardening Newsletter which contains expert gardening advice, garden teletips, and vegetable recipes promoting healthy eating. 6 Steps to a Healthier Cleveland: Steps to a Healthier Cleveland is working in conjunction with the OSUE Community Gardening Program helping to develop gardens in targeted neighborhoods in order to increase residents’ access to fresh produce and to provide opportunities for physical activity through gardening. The program teaches and promotes the connection between gardening, nutrition, and physical activity to new audiences. Gardens in the Steps intervention neighborhoods receive additional support and free services including: consultations and site visits with OSU Extension staff, soil tests, the Community Gardening Start-up Guide, and nutrition and gardening workshops at their site. Summer Sprout: Summer Sprout is a program of the City of Cleveland’s Division of Neighborhood Services that is run by the OSUE Community Gardening Program. Community vegetable gardens that are registered with Summer Sprout receive for free: • Vegetable seeds and plant starts • Soil preparation services (such as plowing and rototilling) • Assistance in getting fire hydrant permits and equipment for watering • Garden fertilizer and leaf humus Definitions For the purposes of this report, a community garden is defined as a program that utilizes a parcel of land to primarily grow fruits and/or vegetables. The program should be free, or require only a small fee, and open to the public or clients of an agency. Furthermore, land that is being used to grow mainly vegetables for community health and education, or philanthropic purposes is included. Many different types of programs are found throughout the city in a number of different contexts. The following garden bios provide a number of examples that better illustrate the variety of programmatic structures utilized in local garden programs. 7 Cleveland Urban Community Garden Network Steps to a Healthier Cleveland PART I: STEPS URBAN GARDEN BIOS 8 Cleveland Urban Community Garden Network Steps to a Healthier Cleveland Data Collection The data on current Steps gardeners was collected using a voluntary and anonymous two page ques- tionnaire administered to adults, ages 18 and up, who participate in the urban garden programs and were willing to complete the survey. See appendix A for a copy of the garden participant survey. The survey was distributed and collected during visits by a CHPR data collection team. The team consisted of one CHPR staff member and one CHPR student research assistant. The survey collected general demographic information (age, gender, proximity of residence to gar- den, etc.), garden participation information (number of years gardening, number of years in community gardens, time spent in garden per week, etc.), and data on the subject’s perceptions of the community garden’s impact on both themselves and the surrounding community. Survey participation was com- pletely voluntary and took place during
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