Jeffrey,
We are not really organized into community groups nor do we have any clear
direction. We have been in a one size fits all community gardening system for
twenty years that has kept just enough funding coming in so that no one has had
to push or think for themselves. A severe blow came
Michele,
Ken Hargesheimer is correct about the term potting soil, and the idea
that the plants will need that type of soil to get started. As he indicated the
soil already there will do to start. I would say
only if you are removing gravel or concrete to reclaim an area formerly
occupied by a
Diann,
How do we get a hold of the research that you have that compares the out put
and in put dollar values involved in community gardening? This sort of info is
essential for business plans and funding requests for start up cash.
Thank you so much for finding this
~ robyn
With regard to crime stats:
When we talk about crime different cities view it in different ways. Some count
the number of violent crimes only or have groupings like gang crimes and
domestic disputes. Others count thefts and family violence and drugs or social
breakdown crimes as a group.
It
Jamie,
How is the buy in or commitment to the garden established?
Is it a shared ideological bond?
Are the people friends?
Is this a hobby for most of the people?
Are there memberships being sold?
Is everyone from the same community?
Probably a little of
Regarding gardens under water.
I am in London Ontario and we have two gardens that are under water every
spring. Last year they were under three times, but not during the growing
season. We get soil testing done every year because of it. Only this year did I
learn that the testing may not have
Patty,
The dredging sounds drastic! Been having terrible luck with our river as well.
I live right against our levee on the Thames in London Ontario. Our summer was
wet. Everything rotted in the garden
Back to rivers and silting. Cities allow paved driveways, huge unbroken parking
lots, two
With Regard to flooding and soil contamination,
Not knowing what words to use and what questions to ask is often what makes it
hard to make headway. I found the power point presentation of a lecture given
by Ed Topp of Agriculture Canada on soil contamination. It is not exactly what
we want but
Water is always a good area to start into thinking about making your Community
garden self sustaining and more conceptually green. Why not consider building a
cistern with a hand pump? This is possible
in gardens where the neighbours have roofs that border on the garden.
A cistern will pay for
Lisa,
My neighbour caught a fish or two every morning a large pond that ran behind
the houses on our street. He simply buried them in the ground in the row that
was to be his crop requiring the most nutrients. He did this every year March
April and May, while the ground was muddy. He dug around
Hmmm,
Teach our children Where our food comes from???Food is the key to
everything.. Food is about life And everyone loves food. So, why the
disconnect? Well because food is also about land. About energy in vs energy
out = money made. hours of labour and value of
These are good questions.
1. How do you tell if a compost made with animal manure will be safe
for all of your plants?
2. How do you know if the feed that they have been eating was tainted
with chemicals?
3. How do you know if there are viruses or pathogens in the
Here is a very useful websitewith a useful multileveled best of organic ideas
overview for the large and small crop points of view.
ATTRA The National Sustainable Agriculture Service
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/cucumberbeetle.html
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With regard to watering chickens there was some talk of this years ago from
stuff that John Todd was experimenting with in trying to create cycles of
nature
and farming that interact naturally. His experiment was called the the New
Alchemy Institute. It was coming at farming from the idea of
Diann,
Nice design. You are right about the importance of figuring out how little
energy wattage you can get away with. The chickens may get possessive and fight
over who gets to be close to the warmth.
I think that your system might work for starting plants as well.
~ robyn
Anaiis,
I have attempted to start several community gardens in London a medium sized
conservative town in Ontario. Those that failed did so because of a kind of
ignorance that allows the natural questions and worries to fester and turn into
complaints or worse such as dogmatic beliefs against
Ray and Bill,
Ray I am very interested in your group the P-Patch Trust's position paper on
the
question of terms for garden plots. Your attachment did not arrive. It may be
covering a lot of the same ground as I would wish to add into the discussion or
go off in a completely unexplored
With regard to growing under the power lines; its not a staight line answer any
more, so much land is under power lines! I also totally agree that
misinformation is making decision making based on fact almost impossible,
because facts are twisted. So, this really screws up scientific
Yes..ejdry54
I think of all gardens as research. not everybody thinks all gardens are
research . my carrots didn't grow well this year doesn't spark curiosity in
everybody. ~ robyn
From: ejdr...@yahoo.com ejdr...@yahoo.com
To: Robyn Harvey
Orgonite, hydro-electric power lines and farming,
I don't know how organite works or if it works. I looked it up and found
talisman protectors and other bigger shielding devices. These could be tested
around plants to see if there are effects. It is my experience that blanket
statements about
Amy,
It sounds like you are running an undeclared not for profit or a not declared
charitable group. This open ended arrangement is always looked at by the IRS or
Canada Tax in my case as a for profit enterprise until proven differently. A
lot
of the groups that started out as spontaneous
Dear Fellow Community Gardeners,
We are having trouble with our garden adminstrator. Our communty city wide
community garden system has been going through some upheaval. Its been hell but
it is also an opportunity for change. Dirt and politics with people who moan
Oh, please I just want to
Karen,
I confess that I do not know much about soils, testing for toxins or
remediation
of brown fields. However, the little garden in our neighbourhood was one of the
test sites for a project by Sheila Mac Fie
http://www.uwo.ca/biology/Faculty/macfie/index.htm.
She collaborates on projects
Mary,
I always encourage more gardens just because people tend to work things out
only
if they get together and see what it is that they are missing if they don't do
it.
The biggest road block is liability. Setting up affordable insurance for
massage
therapists in 1990 took us five years
Liability question reprise
Community gardens are always claimed by the city to be theirs when the city
runs
them and by the community when the community runs them, but often they would
not
exist at all no matter who claims to run them if it were not for the members
mutual respect and trust.
Photography
Are we as community garden advocates and leaders saying that legality of
publication is the best standard of choice and action that we should follow?
Is
it a decent thing to take pictures or publish them with out asking? If someone
intends to do something good with the pictures
With regard to thieves and the effectiveness of signs.
Who are these people who steal? Are they lazy opportunists who stroll by every
day at sunset just after the gardeners leave? Are they people over taken by the
sensuality and who just have to take a bite? Are they rascals that just take
are helpful.
~ robyn harvey
community gardens london
www.communitygardenslondon.ca
From: Michelle Shively mshiv...@cacscw.org
To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org
community_garden@list.communitygarden.org; comga...@lists.umn.edu
comga...@lists.umn.edu
I am in London Ontario. We got information from the United Nations offices in
Ottawa and New York for a teen conference we were running on Ecology and the
Environment in 1990. Two concrete concepts that the UN was really big on at
that time were Community Gardens and Pop Ed They were using
Dear Fresh Baked,
I think that this survey is a great idea and worth the work that it takes to
conduct them. Since you are asking people to reply privately and not as a share
are you going to post the entire blog / interview back to ACGA list once you
are done gathering all of these positive
Theft is a re-occurring theme Robert. It wipes out community gardens. You will
find other discussions about it in the community gardens ACGA archives.
Gardeners in Detroit can maybe speak to this better but as I understand it the
only really successful strategies are about eliminating the us
This question is very broad. What do you mean by evaluations? Good Food? and
programs? Is there some article or paper that you can show as an example of
what you want to get into? Or maybe just as good would be to show some examples
which really missed the mark and please let us know what they
Hello,
I need some guidance about the insurance that ACGA provides. Is there a web
page where I can read exactly what its types of coverage, strengths and limits
are?
For example we have many new community gardens just starting up where new
members are not likely to invest in insurance, but
for teaching gardening lessons and then using that plots food as
a donation to the food banks or other food for the less fortunate. So, a give
away basket could be loaded up every thursday as an example. Its a way of
getting to know people and to break barriers. ~Robyn harvey
On Friday, August
Sorry Jess,Your link did not work. This is a very interesting topic. Could you
try again? Maybe just send it as a pasted text message or as a attachment? It
would be really lovely to hear what you have to say on this topic.~
robyncommunitygardenslondon
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