Reddit mentions of Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook

> If I don't personally run around and organize an EVENT then no one will independently work in it.

This is, in a nutshell, every community garden ever. Every community garden I've ever encountered has one or two spark plugs at the top will make everything go. They are supported to varying degrees by people lower down in echelon, but ultimately a successful community garden is going to have a manager at the top of wants to get stuff done, and who insists upon it, and has the people skills to make it happen..

The best and most cohesive community gardens are those that are grouped around a central organization such as a church, scout troop, neighborhood watch group, and similar social units where people already have strong social bonds towards each other in the sense of cooperation. These are the most successful operations.

It's the ad hoc loosely organized gardens such as those composed o, for example, f people who happen to live in the same apartment complex that fail, since nobody wants to pull weeds in July, and nobody feels a sense of commitment towards the larger project as a whole.

So you want to know whether to give up. That is completely up to you. If you feel like you're flogging a dead horse, and you enjoy flogging dead horses, and keep going. If you feel like there's something worthwhile here other than flogging a dead horse, then keep going.

If you haven't read this book yet, it has some good insights. I receive no financial compensation for this, it's just a nifty book.

https://www.amazon.com/Start-Community-Food-Garden-Essential/dp/160469484X

Not totally clear what you are looking for. But a couple of general options for you:

• Book on starting a community garden - deals with logistics
  
• An organization that helps families on foodstamps to grow gardens