2008 RTP Product Design Street Faire in Morrisville, NC

This web site provides background on where the strategy of Economic Gardening is taking hold. 

You can become a member of this site here. Members of the site can freely contribute content and help us build an even more vibrant economic gardening network. 

You should also join the Economic Gardening Google Group here. 

This site is provided by I-Open, the Institute for Open Economic Networks, a non-profit corporation supporting new models of economic development based on open networks.

We recognize the Edward Lowe Foundation which supports both Economic Gardening and I-Open.

The Purdue Center for Regional Development also provides strong support to the development of new network-based models of economic and workforce development, including Economic Gardening.

We would also like to acknowledge Near-Time, a firm based in North Carolina, that supports I-Open's work to promote innovation in economic development and workforce development through open networks. 

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