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C ontents

Participating gardens and acronyms 2

Introduction 3

What is this manual about? 3
Why do social issues matter? 3
Who is this manual for? 4
Our methodology 4
How to use the manual 4

Theoretical frameworks 5

Social Model of Disability 5
Evidence-Based Design 6
Asset-Based Community Development 6

Addressing social issues 8

Case studies: 11
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• Growing Along with the Botanic Garden, University of Oxford Botanic Garden, UK
• Plants that clean the air, Wuhan Botanical Garden, China 13
• Citi Entrepreneurs: encouraging farm-based tree nurseries, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 14
The Millennium Seed Bank, UK – Kenya
• Dynamic Cultivations: Native Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Balkan Botanic Garden of Kroussia, Greece 15
• Strengthening Zenú indigenous communities with crafts derived from the wildcane, Gynerium
sagittatum (Aubl.), Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Colombia

How to engage the community 16

Case studies: 19

• Therapeutic garden, Il Giardino SottoVico, Italy 20
• The restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) in the Kaluveli Bioregion, 21
Auroville Botanical Gardens, India 22
• Balee Koolin Bubup Bush Playgroup, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Cranbourne, Australia 23
• Urban Food Initiatives, Denver Botanic Garden, USA
• Appropriate Green Space project, Jardín Botánico Culiacán, Mexico

Audience Research 24

Case studies: 27
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• Marianne North Gallery Community Outreach Engagement Programme, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
• Partners in Education, Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, USA 29
• Village Botanists Course, The Ethnomedicinal Garden of the Institute of Transdisciplinary 30
Health Sciences and Technology, India
• Nacadia Healing Forest Garden, The Arboretum in Hørsholm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Funding 31

Case studies:

• GreenBridge, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, USA 33

• Garden Apprentice Program (GAP), Brooklyn Botanic Garden, USA 35

• Garden Volunteers, University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, Slovenia 36

• Gift shop, El Charco del Ingenio, Mexico 37

• The Blessing Basket Project, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA – Madagascar 38

Conclusions 39
References 40

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