Economic Gardening embraces strategies to grow existing second-stage businesses. It is an innovative entrepreneur-centered economic growth strategy that offers balance to the traditional economic practice of business recruitment, often referred to as “economic hunting.”
It was pioneered by Chris Gibbons in 1989 in the city of Littleton, Colo., a community that in the ensuing 15 years saw a 136 percent increase in new jobs. While it was introduced as a demonstration program to deal with the sudden erosion of economic conditions following the relocation of the largest employer in the city at that time, it has emerged as a prototype for a rapidly expanding movement to generate truly sustainable economic growth for communities, regions and states.
To learn more about economic gardening, view GrowFL Reports & Studies and visit the Edward Lowe Foundation website at www.edwardlowe.org.
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