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​There are over 100 community gardens in the Denver metro area in the state of Colorado. Gardens are located on vacant land (42%), school grounds (26%), housing facilities (15%) and other location (17%) such as churches and senior centers. Based on land tenure, community gardens in Denver are found on public land (52%), private land (24%) or owned by non-profits (16%) and Denver Urban Gardens (8%). Community gardens located in Missouri include the Gateway Greening network of Community Gardens, which comprises over 200 gardens throughout the city of St. Louis and surrounding counties. Gateway Greening is a St. Louis non-profit that educates and empowers people to strengthen their communities through gardening and urban agriculture. Gateway Greening also runs a 2.5 acre urban farm in downtown St. Louis.

Jasper County, Indiana supports a local community garden run by local churches. The garden has given away over half a million pounds of produce to local food shelves since it was founded in 2008. Commonwealth Gardens is an organization dedicated to the formation of community gardens and school gardens in the Frankfort and Franklin County area in Kentucky. Commonwealth Gardens also encourages the consumption of locally grown food not only because it tastes better and takes less energy to produce, but also because it is important to support the local farmers and merchants. Image: © risingthermals​, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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4. Mike Blackwell, Addision, Illinois, 2015, CC
5. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Champaign, Illinois, 2015, CC
6. OakleyOriginals, Oklahoma, 2012, CC
7. Paul Sableman, St. Louis, Missouri, 2015, CC
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