How DUG supports
our gardens
- Cultivates community-driven garden leadership, including volunteer gardener leader recruitment and placement
- Provides garden maintenance support
- Provides fiscal management of garden accounts (when requested)
- Provides liability insurance coverage for gardens and serve as liaison between gardens and city officials, agencies and water providers
- Establishes working relations with garden property owner agencies and negotiate and maintain garden site use agreements
- Coordinates volunteer groups and supervise large maintenance and improvement projects
- Mediates inter-community gardener conflicts as requested
- Organizes peer-to-peer networking and learning events for gardeners and garden leaders