I got so caught up in yesterday’s writing, I guess I forgot to include a proper update. So for official purposes, here’s what we’re up to:
We’re exploring the possibility of evaluating community-building aspects of the herb garden as a community garden!
- We’re conducting a review of academic literature surrounding this topic and we hope to find some frameworks or metrics that we can use. If this is successful, we’ll need to change our scope and notify Andrew.
Still working on the toolkit!
- Now that we’ve gone through the process of building a garden with Stephanie, we hope to contact Shifting Growth to get their perspective on the issue.
- We’ve divided the organization of the toolkit into two main sections: Setting Up a Herb Garden and Managing a Herb Garden. Setting Up entails most of the supplies and planning while Managing is more about sustaining interest, conducting events, and generally making sure the garden is well loved.
- We’re planning on making two brochures, one for landowners and one for community organizations, as a way for prospective partners to quickly browse through the benefits of our toolkit without having to look at the whole thing. This will hopefully help with advertising.
Our survey/interview questions are basically done!
- In light of our new approach, we’ve elected to talk to community members later, once we’ve clarified what we really want out of this project.
We’ve got big plans in store for the next update:
- Two weeks should be plenty of time to put together the basic writing and organizational aspects of the toolkit.
- We’d like to talk to Chris Reid of Shifting Growth
- We’ve already booked interviews with Susanna of GNH and Paul Taylor, one of the directors of GNH.
- We’ll need to make a decision of assessing community aspects
- We’re going to start surveying and interviewing community members: We promise.