Externalities in Connection with a Community Garden

This publication contents data collected as a part of a research1 carried out into the area of establishment and operation community gardens as well as the opportunity of applying mediation in this environment. The subject matter of this article is to demonstrate externalities occuring in connection with community gardens in the examined Hungarian sample. I would like to illustrate some of those by means of a specific example, too. The aim of this brief note is to mention several factors by which people who may be concerned can face related to a community garden in order to find out, why it is worth establishing a community garden, or becoming a member of that. There are some factors of which nobody would think about. For example, the leader’s orginizing ability which is a positive externality or excessive media coverage, which is a negative one. At the same time this article does not intend a full list of the factors and representative examination of their prevelance in Hungary.