As mentioned in the Welcome Letter, this Community Garden Handbook and its accompanying website relate to the “Forward” part of our “Plant It Forward” vision. In other words, the Gordonsville Community Garden is now complete and is already yielding a remarkable amount of produce. So now we are focused on how to help others establish their own gardens and keep passing along the vision and learnings to others around the country.
We view the end-to-end planting process as an ongoing infinity loop and have developed our logo accordingly. The logo colors represent soil (brown), water (blue), plants (green), and sunlight (yellow). And as pictured below the ongoing planting lifecycle is comprised of four discrete steps:
- Plan (Section 2),
- Build (Section 3),
- Operate (Section 4), and
- Manage (Section 5).