Community Gardens and Health

Since 2004, Denver Urban Gardens and the Colorado School of Public Health have worked together, through the Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities (GGHC) community-based research initiative, to explore how gardens, as neighborhood places, support healthy living. In short, the results of this research partnership have shown what community gardeners have known all along- that community gardens are good for neighborhoods!

The following resources summarize the results of the Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities research initiative:

• Key findings, and an Rx for Healthy Place Making
• Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities Conceptual Model
• Published research papers and abstracts
• A Garden in Every Neighborhood, a brief documentary that summarizes the potential impact of community gardens on community health

For more information about this research or Denver Urban Gardens, please contact us!

This research was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Health Protection Research Initiative and extended by additional funding from the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and the J.R. Albert Foundation.