San Diego is an extremely challenging environment for starting community gardens. Currently the City charges a minimum of $5000.00 to permit a garden so we are always looking for other alternatives. One is putting community gardens on school property and combining it with the school garden. This has the added advantage of providing additional manpower to care for the garden and provide educational programs at the garden. Many schools here have gardens but frequently they go unused and neglected because there is no school staff to support the garden. Does anyone have experience with joint use gardens? I am presenting on this topic at an upcoming School Garden Conference and am working with others on implementing the school/community garden portions of the recent CDC Grant awarded to the San Diego Dept of Health Services. Your experiences and guidance would be much appreciated. Judy Jacoby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20100417/89b68a0c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org