Simple, appropriate technologies for great garden outcomes:

Meeting your environmental goals is easier when you track your progress and use the information to improve your practices--and results--over time. The basic steps are goal setting, action, monitoring, reflection, and adaptation. Read more about how you can bring these these steps into your garden at http://publiclab.org/wiki/gardening-toolkit-events

pole aerial mapping

Change your perspective! Map your garden plot.

infrared imagery

See plants photosynthesizing. Experiment with cultivation methods and see which types of plants thrive.

Measure how your programs are doing

Growing tons of food? Composting? Coordinating work among lots of volunteers? Taste-testing veggies with kids? Cooking special recipes with the food you've grown together? Beautifying your neighborhood? Ameliorating the mental health of your visitors?

If you're tackling these or other programs in your urban green space, perhaps you've thought about trying to keep track of the outcomes.