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My Garden: Community Gardening Solutions

This document introduces an app called "My Garden" that aims to help community gardeners like Louise find new gardening spaces. It summarizes the key features and goals of the app, which allows gardeners to connect with local plot holders, find available plots near them, and communicate securely to apply for specific plots. The app also facilitates the creation of online discussion groups to build a sense of community for displaced gardeners. Overall, My Garden seeks to support local and sustainable community agriculture by helping people share gardening space and promoting gardening communities.

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My Garden: Community Gardening Solutions

This document introduces an app called "My Garden" that aims to help community gardeners like Louise find new gardening spaces. It summarizes the key features and goals of the app, which allows gardeners to connect with local plot holders, find available plots near them, and communicate securely to apply for specific plots. The app also facilitates the creation of online discussion groups to build a sense of community for displaced gardeners. Overall, My Garden seeks to support local and sustainable community agriculture by helping people share gardening space and promoting gardening communities.

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My Garden

A Community Garden in Your Pocket


Meet the Team
Akila Thumbiran Le Hou David Hunt
State of the Garden
Located in a food desert
Available space divided between affordable
community plots and community center
owned plots
Located in a diverse community
In the process of moving to a new location
Our User
Meet Louise
Recently displaced from her local community garden
Lives in a small middle-class neighborhood with few
options for food or gardening space
Enjoys gardening at trying new gardening methods
Champion of local and urban gardening
Needs a new location to garden in.
Would like to have more space to garden in

Louise
Ideation
Design an Engineering Innovation for community gardeners who
need to find a new place to Garden because the community that the
garden is in is a food desert and their community garden recently
moved
Category Value app plot shelves mini gardens wall garden soil swap
Space 9 3 4 2 5 4
Time 5 5 4 4 3 3
Cost 10 4 4 4 2 3
Reapair/Reliabl
e 7 2 3 3 2 4
Ease of Use 7 4 3 4 3 4
Design/Build 5 3 2 3 2 2
Total 149 148 142 125 147
Our Solution
My Garden
My Garden: Basic Principles
Allows community members like Louise to connect
with local plot holders.
Allows gardeners to find plots that near them and
available at times that work with their busy
schedules.
Provides a secure solution for gardeners to apply to
a specific plot and communicate with potential plot
holders
Allows gardeners to garden at multiple plots that
are located near them.
My Garden: Creating a New Community
Our initial user testing revealed the desire for an
in-app community.
Introduced My Discussion Groups as a solution.
Allows gardeners to communicate with fellow
gardeners and plot holders.
Promotes a new sense of community for those
gardeners, such as Louise, who were displaced by
the recent garden moving time.
My Garden: Future Goals
Aid in the movement of local and sustainable
community agriculture.
Encourage people to share their gardening space
with others.
Promote local communities of community
gardeners.

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