Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-04 Thread Robyn Harvey
; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? with all respect to my colleague diann, i have seen a lot of food grown under power lines in california. land under high power lines is very dangerous

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-04 Thread Robyn Harvey
robynharvey...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 6:41:40 AM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? Then you have research garden. This could be presented and promoted differently than a community garden. This would take a special group of folks with you special

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-04 Thread Diann Dirks
Nuri ; Jama Crawford ; Diann Dirks ; W Ontiveros ; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:33 AM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? With regard to growing under the power lines; its not a staight line answer any more

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-04 Thread Diann Dirks
678 26-8141 Auburn, Ga. - Original Message - From: K. Rashid Nuri To: Jama Crawford ; Diann Dirks ; W Ontiveros ; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:19 AM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? happy

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-04 Thread Diann Dirks
Crawford j...@frontier.net; W Ontiveros wontive...@gmail.com; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? Hi, Here are my two cents on the following matters: Plot term limits- 1

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-04 Thread Robyn Harvey
From: Diann Dirks didi...@comcast.net To: Guy Serbin guy.ser...@gmail.com Cc: W Ontiveros wontive...@gmail.com; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 5:10:22 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? Dear Guy

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-03 Thread K. Rashid Nuri
: Jama Crawford j...@frontier.net To: K. Rashid Nuri ad...@trulylivingwell.com; Diann Dirks didi...@comcast.net; W Ontiveros wontive...@gmail.com; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Mon, January 3, 2011 1:13:25 AM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2011-01-01 Thread K. Rashid Nuri
Washington Carver From: Diann Dirks didi...@comcast.net To: W Ontiveros wontive...@gmail.com; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 12:00:21 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? How about

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-30 Thread Ray Schutte
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Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-29 Thread W Ontiveros
Our garden opened in 2009 and we have 30 raised beds in a densly populated neigborhood 5 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. We've leased the land from the city's Department of Transporation. Our plots are assigned based on a weighted lottery - applicants living closest to the garden

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-29 Thread Ray Schutte
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:52 PM To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? All The issue of open term plot or garden plots for life..is being questioned by the parks and recreation commission, so I am looking

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-29 Thread Diann Dirks
- Original Message - From: W Ontiveros wontive...@gmail.com To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? Our garden opened in 2009 and we have 30 raised beds in a densly populated

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread Ken Hargesheimer
The solution is to find more land: contact owners of vacant land and I realize that in some cities there may not be much vacate land Here in Lubbock TX the Lubbock Central Appraisal District, which handles tax collect, etc for the city, county, schools, hospitals, etc. will allow anyone to farm

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread William Maynard
All The issue of open term plot or garden plots for life..is being questioned by the parks and recreation commission, so I am looking for any gardens that have term limits.. with large gardens this is not an issue.. but with city run gardens of 10-12 plots this is an issue (no turnovers for 7

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread Ken Hargesheimer
With only one year long use, no one is building up the soil. They are just mining the nutrients. Yields will be low and will be a little lower each year. I am talking about organic gardening; no chemicals. Ken H organic, no-till gardener -- next part -- An HTML

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread William Maynard
into the lottery with current gardeners. But I agree 1 year is way too short for a term limit. bill From: Ken Hargesheimer [mailto:minifa...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:58 PM To: William Maynard Cc: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread Diann Dirks
betsyjohn...@speakeasy.net To: William Maynard wmayn...@cityofsacramento.org Cc: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? Term limits are generally not used (and fought) -- despite

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread Diann Dirks
, December 28, 2010 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots? Not necessarily so.. a cover crop or manure is often planted / placed in the winter by those that over see the garden.. then the plots will be ready for whoever gets them in the spring. Remember some may

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread jama
I can see a number of problems with term limits, more problems than you have now with long waiting lists and people complaining to city officials that its THEIR turn to get a plot. You want to see people return year after year - that's the community half of the community garden equation. A

Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for Community Garden Plots?

2010-12-28 Thread tanya
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:02 PM, j...@frontier.net wrote: ... We do ask our skilled gardeners to assume more responsibilities in managing the garden, and we also ask anyone unwilling to put forth 2 hours a week of effort to leave the garden, and let someone new in.  As a result of both