• The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. The Association recognizes that community gardening improves the quality of life for people by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education.

Through its networking, publications (educational bulletins on a wide variety of topics, the annual Community Greening Review, quarterly newsletter The Community Gardener, etc.), slide show and an annual conference held in a different part of the country each year, ACGA:

• promotes the formation and expansion of national and regional community gardening networks,
• develops resources in support of community gardening and greening,
• encourages research on the impact of community greening, and
• conducts educational programs.