COMMUNITY GARDENS

Participation in this survey is voluntary. Your responses will help us understand how community gardens can be used to build more sustainable communities.

 

The focus of our study is on community gardens in South Australia and Tasmania, and the community food growing initiatives of the botanic gardens in Adelaide and Hobart.  By investigating community garden coordinator's perceptions on the contributions community gardens make to sustainable communities, and identifying components of successful community gardens, we hope to develop guiding principles for optimising the application of community gardens in building more sustainable communities.

 

Your feedback is important to us and we thank you in advance for your help.

 

The University of South Australia authorises collection of this information.  This information will be to promote best practice in community garden development.  Completion of this survey is voluntary.  Any contact details provided are used for follow-up mailing purposes only.  When analysis of the survey is completed, all name and address files will be destroyed.  Your data does however represent your perceptions of your community garden and will be recorded as perceptions of a key stakeholder in that garden. Data will be stored on a password protected computer in a secure office (P2-18) at the University of South Australia for a period of 5 years.  The survey has been approved by the University of South Australia Human Ethics Committee (protocol #00033749).  If you have any ethical concerns, please contact Ms. Vicki Allen, Executive Officer of the Human Research Ethics Committee at the University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095 on 08/8302-3118.  For any general questions relating to the survey, please contact our supervisor: Dr. Delene Weber on 08/8302-5279.