We have a "volunteer" role. These people don't pay dues but sign a liability
form and are allowed to help out (such as weed) under the direction of a paying
member. In some cases volunteers are allowed to harvest, particularly when our
members have taken all they want of a specific crop.
Sent
but I personally
would nix the market as just far too much labor for volunteer staff.
Jama Crawford
Durango Co
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On Apr 1, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Connie Bergstrand cjbergstr...@gmail.com wrote:
Would like any info and/or input from other community gardens about having
thievery even easier for a passers-by.
Best wishes and my heartfelt compassion for having to deal with this.
Jama Crawford
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On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Diana Johnson dia...@cityofcampbell.com wrote:
Good Morning,
I manage a small community garden in Campbell California. We
this is another point of view you may find helpful as you move
forward.
Jama Crawford
Durango CO
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From: Claudia Pine gardenersw...@yahoo.com
To: j...@growinggardensforlife.org;
community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 10:55 AM
been around since the beginning of time, and the
quiet removal of a pest by whatever means will be greatly appreciated by all
of your garden members.
Jama Crawford
Durango Colorado
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and
$15,000 or more in summer.
HOpe this helps
jama crawford
Durango
- Original Message -
From: Gary Dent gcd...@gmail.com
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:58 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] Does a greenhouse overwhelm a community garden?
Our
If you plan to heat the tunnel the double layer plastic is advised as it will
reduce heating expenses. A tunnel heated just above freezing can grow a much
wider variety in winter than without.
But if you dont plan to heat then the second layer is not very beneficial. The
two layers reduce
removal.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Garden
Durango CO
Quoting John Hintz johnhi...@gmail.com:
Hi Folks,
We have someone dropping off a pickup-bed-load of horse manure to our
community garden. We want to get it to compost this spring as quickly as
possible. Is it better to pile
Colorado State University reported a few benefits of gardening that would
apply to community gardens. In terms of life satisfaction, accessibility to
nature was scored second only to a good marriage. The most frequent
benefit reported by gardeners was stress reduction.
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either. Finally, there are dog clubs that
specialize in urban rodent defense. None of these sound better than a live
trap to me.
Hope this helps. Best wishes for your wildlife management.
Jama Crawford
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: Lynn Gregor lmg3...@gmail.com
they feel they got something out of the
departure negotiations too.
Good luck!
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Garden
Durango CO
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From: Diana Johnson dia...@cityofcampbell.com
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:53 AM
Subject
or water service to the site.
I hope your prospect won't be scared off by the shadowy fears of litigation.
Best wishes, John!
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: John Sigurjonsson j...@cycleck.ca
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
healthy and fit in
the garden. We do see people get strains especially in the spring when their
bodies aren't used to the physical labor.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
- Original Message -
From: Fred Conrad
To: Jama Crawford
Cc: ACGA List Serve ; John
Thank you everyone. These are exciting models of outreach.
On the one hand, I hate to add work to our operation by supporting other
efforts.
On the other hand, this year we bought a lot of seed in bulk and sold some
of the surplus at cost to backyard gardens. It amazed us all when someone
our garden
fenceline!
Jama Crawford
Durango CO
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the identified plots
were actually in food production.
This thread also addressed a problem that many community gardens don't raise
food at all.
If someone could point me back to that research I would be grateful. The
subject has come up on another list.
Jama Crawford
Durango CO
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Garden
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: John Hintz johnhi...@gmail.com
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:08 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] good Garden Construction Book wanted
Hello,
We
legally
do, even though you may hear helpful stories about what others did. This is
a case where you must do your own homework, tailored to your own region,
customers, and business plan.
Jama Crawford
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From: freshbakedc...@mindspring.com
To: tee...@aol.com
in the other 3 seasons, when we start plants in
the spring and can hold them deeper into the fall, and then raise winter
greens.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango CO
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is too contaminated for consumption.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: John Hintz johnhi...@gmail.com
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:25 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] flooded community garden soil test
Scotts is owned by Monsanto and is the commercial vendor of Roundup.
Monsanto also owns a lot of old-favorite seed varieties from a 2005
acquisition of a major U.S. backyard gardener's seed company. For a list of
seed varieities now owned by Monsanto please go to
Well if you consumed the equivalent as the poor Snail (and some do try) then
some is harm done. Must say one of the nice things about our community garden
is we do sometimes imbibe. We might work slower but we stay longer.
-Original Message-
From: Guy Serbin guy.ser...@gmail.com
Sender:
other gardens
with similar circumstance found favorable. The list also contains as
assemblage of seed vendor recommendations for high altitude gardens.
If interested, please respond off list. You must have Excel to participate.
Thanks,
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango CO
Message -
From: Robyn Harvey
To: Diann Dirks
Cc: Kim Delaneyoganic farmer ; Jama Crawford ;
community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] high altitude seed varieties
Hi Diann and Jama,
I heard a talk by Kim
This is very low tech, but it is our best and most durable label yet. Paint
one end of a 4-foot wooden stake white. When it dries, use a wide point
black permanent marker to print the information you need. This stake stands
up above the foliage all season long and is visible from a good
, and an accumulation of valuable data
we use to communicate our project to others each year.
Best wishes for a successful data management effort!
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: Mary Beth Pudup pu...@ucsc.edu
To: community_garden
come up with a good hoop house for less. The
house must shed snow, of course, so I'm especially interested in the
experiences of gardeners from northern latitudes who must also deal with a lot
of winter snow.
Thanks for your input!!
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango, CO
a more hopeful picture of bee life, and the
potential role of community gardens to support it.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango Colorado
- Original Message -
From: jhain...@comcast.net
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011
an attachment, please contact me off the list serv and I will send it to you
privately.
I entered our own garden's local values in the yellow boxes as an example.
You should replace those values with your own.
Extreme heat and drying winds would naturally affect the results.
Jama Crawford
is to the U.S. rather
than to abroad, but perhaps they would agree this is a global issue and
engage good minds in distant places.
Best wishes and here's hope new generations will solve more problems than
create problems.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest
Durango CO
this helps.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Communtiy Garden
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: Mary Reilly-Kliss mar...@charter.net
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:58 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] Distance Gardens
All-
Am working
to keep it running. No one wants it to fail. My 2-cents!!!
Good luck
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: Gina Faber faberm...@fastmail.fm
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 4:01 AM
Subject: [Community_garden
enjoy watching and
hearing how we organize our communal garden. It is a 10 minute flick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJvp1y_WJY
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest, Durango CO
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, but the
entire community's interests. And our members are curious about each other
and like to know what other people do.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest, Durango CO
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- Original Message -
From: Karen Hunsberger karenhunsber...@msn.com
To: eapo...@ag.ncat.edu; community_garden
is a pretty big commitment from the
garden.
http://www.wwoof.org
This is a fun site to poke around on ... and this video is very informative
about what makes for a good internship.
http://www.youtube.com/paulwheaton12#p/u/2/_a8b9ekHSaA
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango
condition. If we
amend the soil, we need to do it before planting. I did read an overly
nitrogen rich soil is part of the problem, but I hope a nitrogen starved
soil is not the aphid solution.
I welcome your expert opinions.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango, CO
. No lease. No liability release
forms. No corporation. No profit. No tax forms. Just good friends getting
together to grow food for families and favorite charities.
Tell your friend he can get in touch with us!
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango CO
- Original Message
Hi Taylar
I tried to undertake something similar - trying to find out whether our
communally-operated community garden was large for its type. I soon found
that figure is very hard to get, since it depends a lot on how you measure.
You can count the number of people served.
You can count the
has its own charge, so
you should inquire about the prices first. Also I was able to borrow a
geiger counter from the county health department since we suspected uranium
(and were correct). I found the state and county health departments to be
great allies in the cleanup effort.
Jama Crawford
gardens in
this community.
We charge $70 a year, but use the income to collectively purchase seed,
bedding plants, materials, tools, and supplies. The garden doesn't generate
a profit. It may help your members make a commitment if they have to pay
something.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest
as an additional benefit at 3 hours x $100 x
28 weekly mental health sessions = $8,400, then you are thousands of dollars
ahead
-- Jama Crawford ... just messing around again
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, and that,
for now, is our productivity goal.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango, Colorado
- Original Message -
From: K. Rashid Nuri ad...@trulylivingwell.com
To: Pattie Baker freshbakedc...@mindspring.com; Fosselius, Kati
fossel...@allentowncity.org; community_garden
with the excess. If there are a lot of competing ideas, you can even
decide to alternate among them over the years.
Best wishes on building your community!
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango Colorado
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Bedford chrisbedf...@charter.net
is the beautiful organic food. So try to use the
reward of more food to train your gardeners.
My two cents! Best wishes for a happy weed-free end of season!
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest
Durango Colorado
- Original Message -
From: Donna Wende zerodecondu...@gmail.com
To: community_garden
. People relax in this setting.
Third, a farm garden tends to attract commuters - people who live in
suburban areas or who are driving by the farm to and from work. Most of our
urban resident gardeners live on this side of the town.
That's my input! Best wishes!
Jama Crawford
problem: aphids.
Best to all, and thanks.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango CO
- Original Message -
From: Lisa Duchene l...@ecowriting.com
To: faurest.kris...@chello.hu; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:49 AM
Subject: Re
, assumes the shell is another moth who beat her to that
particular plant, and moves on to a less crowded spot to lay her eggs. For
whatever reason the cabbage moth is not a problem here.
Jama Crawford
Shared Harvest Community Garden
Durango Colorado
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