The Community Garden Oral History collection includes the transcriptions of five interviews with local gardeners conducted in 2010. The research and interviews were completed in hopes of comparing the current local food movement in southeast Michigan with that of Victory Gardens that were created in the area during World War II. The collection is arranged alphabetically. Records date from 2010.

Ruth B. Alford MacFarlane was a faculty member in the Biology department in Eastern Michigan University's College of Arts and Sciences. She was the curator of EMU's Herbarium for eight years.