Description: These community gardens generally fall into three operating categories: DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), National Parks Service (NPS), and independent.
Description: Points in this layer represent active community gardens in the District of Columbia. These generally fall into three operating categories: DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), National Parks Service (NPS), and independent.
Description: Points in this layer represent pickup locations for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs serving the District of Columbia. These locations were compiled through Office of Planning research in consultation with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG). OP also tracks "home delivery" services, although these are not mappable; meal kit services are deliberately excluded.
Description: This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.
Copyright Text: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.
Copyright Text: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: Represents urban agriculture sites in the District of Columbia. These are distinguished from community gardens in that they are generally not intended for the public to use the space for their own growing activities, and in that many have a commercial focus.Compiled by the Office of Planning through correspondence with District growers, as well as accessing of their published information.Note that organizations with one or more small growing sites (<.01 acres) are not included in this layer, although Office of Planning does track such sites to calculate total acreage under cultivation in the District.Fields include:Company: Company or organization in charge of the site.GrowingAddress: Address at which growing and food production operations take place.Status: Type of organization (for-profit or non-profit).Acreage: Number of acres under cultivation at site. In most cases, numbers are as they were self-reported by growers in mid-2016.Website: Web URL which links to organization's website, if available.Last updated in October 2017.
Description: These are distinguished from community gardens in that they are generally not intended for the public to use the space for their own growing activities, and in that many have a commercial focus. These were drawn by the Office of Planning based on ESRI satellite basemap imagery compared against the Urban Agriculture points layer. Note that, because many locations are small (or indoors) and could not be located through this satellite view, and because acreage as calculated by these polygons differs, sometimes significantly, from producers' self-reported acreage (indicating the presence of other, less visible growing space, or out-of-date satellite imagery), this layer should not be considered complete and should be used for internal purposes only.
Description: The OSSE School Gardens Program envisions a future in which all District youth are engaged in high-quality garden-based learning in schools. The OSSE School Gardens Program provides technical assistance and training to schools and partner organizations to increase the number of students engaged in high-quality school garden programs.
Copyright Text: Office of the State Superintendent for Education