F2 - Community Garden monitoring form


Slow Food Monitoring and Evaluation System

for the Gardens Project in Africa

This form will be preferably filled in by the Slow Food Gardens Coordinator with the collaboration of the Garden Manager. The form should be filled in once per year, during or at the end of the cropping season, with the information relevant to the on-going or just closed cropping season. For some questions, the responses will have to reflect the collective views of all Community Garden members. The information requested in the section General Information about country, name and type of garden is the same as requested in F1, Slow Food Community Garden Key Persons and geographical location. The Slow Food Garden code will be entered by SF.

The form can be filled on paper and data transferred later in the on-line Confluence platform; or it can be directly filled in the on-line Confluence electronic platform.


General information




to be entered by SF




First name, family name




Planting/sowing time of most crops in the Garden

Please indicate the part of the year and the calendar year in which most of the crops grown during the growing season mentioned in the form, were sown or planted

Partnership

Community Garden membership profile

This question asks for the number of members of the Community Garden aggregated by sub-group formed on the basis of gender, age and role in the household. The answer must be based on the complete list of all members; one copy of the list should be kept by the Community Garden Treasurer and one by the Slow Food Garden Coordinator. The list should be updated every time there is a change in membership. Slow Food suggests that the list comprises the following information:

NameGenderBirthMember sinceContactFamily status Other Community Garden members are part of the same householdReason should a person stop being a member
First and family nameM / Fyearyearphone and/or emailhousehold head or memberYes / Noe.g., moving out of the village, death, personal reasons









The term ‘young’ includes any person in the age group 16-35 years; adult is anyone from the age of 36 years.

 

Please add any comment considered useful on the members of the Community Garden

Community Garden location

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about the location of the Garden during the reported cropping season .

please specify


Please add any comment considered useful on the location of the Community Garden


Distance from the closest market.

Please provide the requested information on the distance between the Garden and the closest market during the reported cropping season



Please add any comment considered useful on the distance between the Garden and the closest market


Security and visibility of the Community Garden

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about the security and visibility of the Garden during the reported cropping season

Please add any comment considered useful on the security and visibility of the Community Garden

Crops

Timing of the reported cropping season in relation to the local rainy season pattern

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about the timing of the reported cropping season in relation to the local rainy season/s

Please add any comment considered useful about the timing of the reported cropping season

Crops, shrubs and trees in the Garden during the reported cropping season

Please list all the crops grown in the Garden during the reported cropping season, as well as the shrubs and trees that also are in the Garden; and indicate if they belong to one of the four categories suggested by checking in the online catalog of the Slow Food Foundation website whether they are part of the Ark of Taste Project or the Presidium Project; if they are annual/biennial crops or permanent shrubs and trees; and their main intended uses. Please follow these rules: if the crops are included in the Ark of Taste or are a Presidium, write in column (a) the name as registered in the on-line catalogue of the Slow Food Foundation Web site; if a crop was an Ark of Taste product and then became a Presidium, please tick/answer yes to both columns (b) and (c); if a crop does not belong to any of the categories indicated in (b) to (e), please answer Yes to Other; should you not know the crop name in English, please indicate the local name; if there are more than 12 crops/ shrubs/trees, please list the minor ones in the open-ended question below

Crops/shrubs/trees in the Garden during the reported cropping seasonArk of Taste productPresidium productLocal species or varietySpecies or variety at risk of extinctionOtherCrop/shrub/ tree is annual/ biennial or perennial Main intended uses

Please add any comment considered useful on the crops, shrubs and trees grown in the Garden during the reported cropping season, including crops’/shrubs’/trees’ name and category if there are more than 12 species or varieties

Seeds and vegetative propagation materials

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate for all options about the sources of seeds and vegetative propagation materials used in the Garden during the reported cropping season



Please add any comment considered useful on the procurement of seeds and vegetative propagation material

Source of water

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about the sources of water used in the Garden; whether the water was/is paid and the water lifting method during the reported cropping season



Please add any comment considered useful on the water used in the Garden.

Irrigation and soil-moisture conservation methods

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about the irrigation and soil-moisture conservation used in the Garden during the reported cropping season



Please add any comment considered useful on the irrigation and soil-moisture conservation methods

Soil fertility and soil management practices

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about the soil fertility and soil management practices used in the Garden during the reported cropping season



Please add any comment considered useful on the soil fertility and soil management practices

Pest and disease management practices

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about the pest and disease management practices used in the Garden during the reported cropping season



Please add any comment considered useful on the pest and disease management practices.

Community Garden logbooks

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate during the reported cropping season, to both statements below



Objectives of the Community Garden

Please discuss and agree on all replies with all the members of the Community Garden


Please assess the importance of each objective of the Garden during the reported cropping season, by ticking for each option the appropriate level of importance


Please add any comment considered useful on the objectives of the Garden. Most importantly, if the Garden has been an incentive for member and non-member households to develop their own garden at home, please indicate how many have done so (approximate number).

Governance of the Community Garden
Please list the names and roles of the Community Garden members responsible for its governance, during the reported cropping season, as well as the gender and age of each person


First and family nameRoleGenderAge


Please add any comment considered useful on the governance roles of the Garden


Management of the Community Garden

Community Garden decision making mechanism: please answer Yes or not



Community Garden work organization: please answer Yes or No

Destination and distribution of the Community Garden products: please provide percentage values from 0% to 100% as appropriate for the four initial options  

Please, answer Yes or No, as appropriate to the following options

Please add any comment considered useful on the management of the Community Garden

Training events and materials

Please answer Yes or No as appropriate to all options about access to and use of training material and about events carried out during the reported cropping season


Please add any comment considered useful on training and awareness raising concerning the Garden. About Slow Food training and awareness raising events at the Garden, please inform if a separate report was prepared and sent to Slow Food Gardens Team

Effects of any recent/on-going major disruptive event (e.g., drought, flood, epidemic/pandemic, civil strife, war) on the Garden

Please discuss and agree the replies with all the members of the Community Garden 


Please add any comment considered useful about the disruptive event and its effects on the Garden

Challenges of the Community Garden
Please discuss and agree all replies with all Community Garden members


Please answer Yes or No and comment as appropriate about the challenges that the Garden has faced during the reported cropping seasonYes/NoPlease provide additional information as appropriatePlease indicate the solution you have identified

Garden size

Fencing the Garden

Availability of seeds and propagation material

Availability of natural fertilizers (manure, compost, etc.)

Access to water and management

Pests and diseases control

Availability of tools and equipment

Financial resources for Garden management

Garden governance

Garden management, e.g. work organization, distribution of production, etc.

Knowledge of Slow Food gardening practices


Please add any comment considered useful on the challenges faced by the garden


Support from Slow Food that the Community Garden would like to receive in future

Please discuss and agree all replies with all the members of the Community Garden


Please assess the importance of each type of support that the Garden would like to receive from Slow Food in future, by selecting the appropriate level of importance for each option


Please add any comment considered useful on the support that the Community Garden would like to receive from Slow Food



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The personal data contained in the form are processed in compliance with the GDPR and in accordance with the privacy policy that the data controller has made available to the link http://privacy.slowfood.com/english, with specific regard to the chapter "Recipients of newsletters and commercial, promotional and sales-oriented communications".
By filling in and sending this form you declare that you have read and understood the privacy policy and that you do not object to the processing provided for therein.

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