Adam Honigman has sent you this link.
Here's a Westchester parenting magazine piece on kids and community gardens to link to the site or distribute.
It seems the media is beginning to catch on.
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
http://www.parenthood.com/articles.cfm?article_id=3792
Dear Kristina,
I am forwarding your query to the ACGA listserve, Doron Comerchero of Green
Thumb and Michael Simsick of Garden Mosaics. Between these sources, you
should get something, eventually.
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Subj: CYBERGARDENS: Question about teenagers
Date: 4/8/03
Friends,
I include this here for any community garden friendly Parks Dept. folks who
are looking for some recreation center bucks for playgrounds.
Adam Honigman
from the Foundation Center RFP Bulletin listserv:
Computer Associates and KaBOOM! Announce 2003
Playground Challenge Grant
Sharon Jim,
This is really a hoot. Gardening in small, cramped, city spaces is hard and
you're always making compromises to get the best outcome. If you need to
make difficulties for yourselves let me tell you about our sand and water
traps.
Fortunately, we're in the preservation area of
Dear Sean,
Get some of the folks who are going to be gardening with you and go through
the process of creating a sign. Start off with a name, the fact that it has
to be waterproof and be able to last until the next season. It doesn't have
to be pretty, but it should be the community's. It's
This article from NYTimes.com
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Friends,
All researchers and workers, in either hard copy or through the Internet owe a
great debt to the work of Seymour Lubetsky, who died at the age of 104 last
week.
While the Times article doesn't connect his work
-Original Message-
From: John Kepner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Friends,
I rec'd this from friends in Little Rock, AK who keep me posted on happenings
at the Dunbar Community Garden, one of the finest school community gardens I
know. To learn more about Dunbar (and the AUGER
Hi,
1) This outit is run by a Princeton alum and has a community garden part of
its program:
Isles Inc.
http://www.isles.org
Community Gardens and Urban Development - Trenton (North Ward), NJ
Isles is a non-profit community development organization in Trenton begun by
Princeton alum
Hi,
The Christian Science Montor headline reads, man bites dog - in this case
that trees and community greening are good things. Maybe a few letters to
the Christian Science Monitor on how neighborhood community greening like
community gardening is the full story.
Best wishes,
Adam
Re: Here in San Diego, many of the working poor have more than one low
paying job just to get by and that does not allow time for planting, weeding,
watering, chatting with neighbors and all the other things we gardeners
enjoy about community gardens.
Friends,
Ehrenreich's book, Nickeled
Friends,
This message went out last evening evening on the NYC Neighborhood Open Space
Coalition's Cybergarden's listserve. The author, Jon Crow, is a fine
community gardener - you may have seen the Brooklyn Bears Garden during the
ACGA tour of Brooklyn last July.
Jon is also a longtime
This from Dave Lutz of the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition on the planned
(can't make this up) Easter Garden Surprise Attack and Massacre.
I'm trying to get someone from NY1 (the local AOL/Time Warner TV station) to
get a truck out to Brooklyn to possibly embarrass the bulldozer crews and
Friends,
The attached message was in my mailbox this morning from the NYC
Cybergardens listserve.
FYI Bushwick is a low income, predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood
in Brooklyn with extraordinarily high asthma rates in its children. Aresh
Jahadi and More Gardens! have been there
Friends,
Rosmary Hay is an fine English stage director who often runs lines with
actors at the Clinton Community Garden. An unpretentious, very nice lady,
Rosey is a great friend of our garden and one of the great, unsung,
theatrical heroes of our city; her work in classic theater with TV-
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Friends,
This is the NY Times article cited in Aresh Jahadi's earlier message requesting
assistance at the Brownsville Fantasy Garden this week. Aresh and some
garden volunteers will be camping out there to witness the
This article from NYTimes.com
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Whatever you may think of Bryant Park's mix of corporate/public mix of public
space management, you have to appreciate their organic pest management plan.
As a gardener who has had his arrugala and tulips massacred this
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Friends,
Here is the NY Times coverage of the Brooklyn Community Garden bulldozings,
Adam
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Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com.
Typed too fast, and should have read more carefully - againA Perfect
Husband is by Oscar Wilde ( of The Importance of Being Earnest and
Salome fame...
Enjoy, if you're in NYC
Adam Honigman
ubj: [cg] Free G.B. Shaw if you're in town and act fast...
Date: 4/21/03 9:43:27 AM Eastern
these were posted on the Foundation Center RFP listserv:
Funding Available for Conservation of Bird Habitats
Deadline: June 1, 2003 (Pre-proposals)
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
( http://www.nfwf.org/ ) is accepting pre-proposals for
habitat conservation and management projects
Some of you met longtime community gardener and activist Jon Crow at the ACGA
conference last July. This went our over the NYC cybergardens listserve a
few minutes ago and refers to the NY Times piece I forwarded you earlier
today on the latest Brooklyn CG bulldozings.
Subj:
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Many of you may have not been alive in 1968, but those of you who were and
walked through Morningside Park near Columbia University during the ACGA
convention last July should find this interesting - how local Harlem
I thought I 'd share this bit of too cute with the folks on the list...
Subj: CYBERGARDENS: CHILDREN INVITED:to be
Butterflies/Insects/Recyclers: GardenPageant
Date: 4/22/03 4:38:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Earth Celebrations)
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
In a message dated 4/23/03 4:03:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam, isn't a thing legal if it is not specifically prohibited?
In Land Use zoning practice:
There is a zoning code which designates certain uses (residential,
commerical, manufacturing, agricultural,
I've found ciderblocks great for stacking to make benches in gardens (flat,
not standing up or sideways) or for use in the foundation of a patio or other
large piece of infrastructure like a shed, in lieu of freshly laid cement (we
rented a mixer for the slab that our new shed sits on at the
Keven,
Thank you so much sending your writing sample.
A few books to borrow, buy or steal:
Strunk White, The Elements of Style
Bernstein, T.M. ,The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage
Adams, P.D Tickle, A, The Harper Collins Concise Handbook for Writers
Hall, Donald,
An update -
Subj: Re: CYBERGARDENS:Sad new / Fighting New
Date: 4/24/03 12:55:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (aresh)
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Helen's Fantasy Garden is blooming out into vibrant greens.
Skyler,
Go to the ACGA website and access the individual gardens on the links page:
A HREF=http://www.communitygarden.org/;American Community Gardening
Association/A
Some gardens list fees on their websites. Some raise their expenses through
cake sales, pot lucks, selling t-shirts and
Knowing what it feels like to be in the bull's eye after 9/11, the media
furor over SARS in Toronto has to be unpleasant, especially with the reduced
tourism in that city.
Hoping all our fellow gardeners in Toronto are doing well.
A hug from New York,
Adam Honigman
Ms. Cowell,
I mean this kindly, but the first thing you need to learn about our common
community garden culture is that we use the word please alot, and thank you
when me make our requests
I'll assume that you type fast and that you meant to use those words. If
you learn that lesson,
Dear Mr. Orsorio,
Please start at the American Community Gardening Association website:
A HREF=http://www.communitygarden.org/;American Community Gardening
Association/A and then go to the archives of this listserve.
http://www.hort.net/lists/community_garden/. When you've found a few
You may want to go to the links page at the ACGA website: A
HREF=http://www.communitygarden.org/;American Community Gardening
Association/A . While there are no specific sites for those cities, there
are cg organization in those states that you can direct your queries to, as
well as their
Cityview Community Garden grows more than food
By Anna Dvorak, CamdenNews.org, April 4, 2004
McKinley Community members are starting a community garden
this spring. The project is an exciting partnership between Fellowship
Missionary Baptist Church, Cityview School and the
Garden plots already attracting applicants
By TERESA RESSEL\Bonne Terre, MO Daily Journal Staff Writer
BONNE TERRE -- About a half dozen people have expressed interest in a
community garden the city plans to start.
City Manager Larry Hughes, Council Member Janet Barton and St. Francois
County
Canton woman wins $25,000 scholarship
She designed program to help troubled youths
By Katie Byard
Beacon Journal staff writer
CANTON TWP. - It's a good thing Kristen Stryker's big project isn't only
about the vegetables.
She's not very fond of them.
The 18-year-old's gardening program --
Friends,
This senior gardener probably could use some more gardeners and help from
nearby CGers, the Agricultural Extension and CA ACGA members to help him
sustain
this garden for his community.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Resident gives park life
By Yunmi Choi, Daily Journal Staff
A shock
Students Cut Red Tape for Emory's Garden
By DANNY C. FLANDERS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/08/04
Gardeners across the South will head to the nursery today in a Good Friday
ritual that says spring officially is here.
Hopeful that the threat of one last frost has passed,
From the Washington Post, Got Plans column
Tuesday, April 8, 2004
Washington, D.C.: Hi Gurus,
I was wondering if you could tell me anything about community gardens in the
Adams Morgan, Woodley Park, or Dupont Circle area. I'd really like to sign up
for the spring and summer, but I don't
Alaska On Line: Gardening in Alaska
Web posted Sunday, April 11, 2004
Gardeners share tips for getting plants growing
By Phil Hermanek
As springtime brings longer days and warmer temperatures, gardening
enthusiasts in many parts of the country look out their kitchen windows at the
plot of
Subj: [cg] information on starting a community garden in Memphis, TN
Date: 4/12/04 4:26:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent from the Internet
Please help me get started planning comm. gardens here in Memphis. What gov.
help is
Friends,
Here is Van Cheeseman's reply, and it's a lovely one that was addressed to
me, and Judy Tiger, but I think should be out here on the listserve becuase
there are so many really bright and experienced Community Gardeners out there
who
should pipe in to give these nice folks in
U. group will plant community garden
By Nicole Delisio, Bowling Green State University News
Reporter
April 13, 2004
Hoping to plant seeds of unity on campus, members of the Environmental Action
Group will break ground for a community garden by the end of the month. The
garden will be
Community Garden reaps first crop; group donates collards to orphanage
By Gabriel Jones. Emory University
Contributing Writer
April 13, 2004
A local vegetable garden created by Emory students is beginning to show the
rewards of its volunteers' work. The first crop, much of which died in the
Community Food Pantry Garden Continues
Submitted ByJeanne Hollingsworth
(April 14): Johnny’s Selected Seeds Helps Make Food Panty Garden a Reality
Rob Johnston and his company, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, give 10% of their
profits to non-profit organizations promoting gardening. The Garden
Friends,
The tradional allotment garden in Scotland is changing, as this article from
the Scotsman states. Along with their revitalization, there is a growing
social component that sounds like they may be evolving into the community
garden
model.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
From The Scotsman
Time for CCC plots to sprout gardeners Time for CCC plots to sprout gardeners
Dwindling turnout worries organizers as more than 100 plots await people
wishing to tend flowers or vegetables
04/15/04
DENNIS McCARTHY
OREGON CITY -- The ground has been tilled, the weeds have
CG from WestportNOw.
April 16, 2004
Community Correspondent Report: Gardeners Organize
(Editor's Note: With the report below, WestportNow launches its new
community correspondent program in which we encourage Westport residents to
submit
news reports to WestportNow. The views expressed or
Alta Vista Gardens holds plant/art sale
Alta Vista Gardens will hold a membership drive and plant and art sale from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 1 at Brengle Terrace Park, 1200 Vale Terrace Drive,
Vista. The event is to promote membership and volunteerism at Alta Vista
Gardens,
which is a
CharlotteObserver Sun, Apr. 18, 2004
Dig into spring at Cornelius community garden workshops
CORNELIUS - The Cornelius Park and Recreation Department and Piedmont
Landscaping and Naturescaping Training (PLANT) will sponsor a series of
community
garden workshops this spring.
Workshops
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PortlandPortland, Maine
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
This story can be found online at:
http://www.pressherald.com/news/local/040419comgardens.shtml
Adopt-A-Flat grows nonprofit's funds
Growing Hope looking for volunteers
Monday, April 19, 2004
BY KATHERINE LOWRIE
News staff reporter
In the spirit of springtime, plant enthusiasts can help grow seedlings that
will later be transplanted into community-based gardens, thanks to a
Food organization to hold info session
2004-04-22
Athens News
Community Food Initiatives can help anyone in the Athens area who would like
to grow a garden but does not have the space to do so.
The Athens Community Gardens, located on West State Street, currently has
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Fruits of your labours
By John Ives
IN TODAY'S choked, grey towns and cities, a growing army of people is choosing
to return to nature and get its hands dirty.
Allotments were once the sole preserve of the flat-capped old man with a
Ditto, Justin Grishki!!!
Professor Jane E. Schukoske's Community Land Use monograph, Community
Development Through Gardening: State and Local Policies Transforming Open
Space is
arguably the best studies on community garden land use that we have, by
anyone!
It is probably one of the best
Friends,
From time to time, I receive requests for items that I've posted over the
years, but as you can imagine, I purge stuff from my hard drive pretty
regularly.
However, all posts made to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are archived and can
be accessed by month, date and author.
Here is how you get
Subj: [cg] Grants
Date: 4/27/04 1:05:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Are you aware of any Educational grants for a Private school to develop a
community Garden?
Thank you,
Bruce
Bruce,
I don't think an
The Witchita Eagle - 04/28/04
Spring bustin' out at community gardens
The concept of leasing space to aspiring horticulturists is growing in
Wichita, along with a sense of green-thumb kinship among the gardeners.
BY ANNIE CALOVICH
The Wichita Eagle
At least four community gardens are growing
Students nourish a community garden
LIZ HAMLIN , Staff Writer, Mt. Olive, NJ Chronicle 04/28/2004
MOUNT OLIVE TWP Neighbors will garden, vegetables will ripen, and flowers
will bloom on the former site of the township's recycling center this summer.
The gardens are part of a
Friends,
I know that for some on these lists, the mention of the name Starbucks
creates the same degree of animosity as let's say Bhopal Union Carbide,
Neutron Jack Welch and General Electric and others about whom the last good
Republican President, Theodore Big Stick Roosevelt called,
From: LTanenb50
To: Adam36055, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You know, Adam - its not useful to be so belittling about others' particular
political view about Starbucks just because you want the coffee and the
coffee grinds. You are so good at supporting
Friends,
NYC's Juan Alonzo community garden ( 565 W. 51 St.) is on the N.E. corner of
51st Street and 11th Avenue in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and has had an
interesting time with the developer of the adjacent renovated tenement in
terms
of drainage, etc. so we're getting a work party
Jim,
What you need to do is visit gardens to get a sense of what your taste is.
More than anything else, it is important to develop a visceral sense of what
you
like, and learn the whys later - because life is too short.
I'm a community gardener, but love to go to the major botanical
Forum on community gardening
The Parks Action Resource Center kicks off Boston's forum for the first Plant
Yourself in the Park Day, a city-wide day of volunteerism June 5. The forum
takes place Saturday, May 8, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Bunker Hill Community
College, Charlestown,. This
When you're dealing with a city school custodian or a well meaning volunteer
who may not be a gardener, you want to make it easy.
For automatic pilot, gardening, I really like drip hoses - so all the well
meaning soul needs to do is turn on the water, and the roots get nice and wet.
Best
This year, after revamp, they won't all get back to the garden
By Colleen Walsh, Boston Globe Correspondent | April 3, 2005
On a recent raw morning, Cambridge resident Karan Marsh, 53, carefully
patrolled a small empty plot of land near Central Square for garbage. She
smiled as
she discovered
Friends,
A few years past, this listserve used to get queries about Florida Community
Gardens, and alot of folks were scratching their heads to think of any we
could forward folks to. Now, there are more and more community gardens being
started in Florida - an ideal place, like California
3/29/2005
New garden group to tackle project at Brown-Elton Tavern
By JOANNA MECHLINSKI , The Bristol Press
BURLINGTON -- A new gardening group will tackle a special garden at
Brown-Elton Tavern this spring.
Four master gardeners from Burlington, Plymouth and Barkhamsted -- graduates
of a
The Garden Watchdog Guide to Gardening by Mail
http://davesgarden.com/gwd/
Before you buy, check it out at this site, which lists and ranks more than
4,000 vendors of gardening products. Site is searchable by company name,
product
category or geographical region. Ratings and comments are
Friends,
This newly minted Minnesota Master Gardener/Journalist wrote this piece in
the Winona Daily News. For all the world, he looks like someone who needs a
local MN community gardener to reach out to him and give him some guidance in
setting up a community garden.
Best wishes,
Adam
Friends,
Would that the NYC Agriculture, or USDA Secretary did the same!
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden, NYC.
Georgia agriculture commissioner plants first veggies in Heritage Community
Garden
By Aisha I. Jefferson
Kneeling on his right knee,
I like both options, together, as the best way of doing the job.
For an urban community garden on this size plot - 60'x70', with volunteers
doing the lion's share of the work, a bobcat to get out as many of the small
weed trees/shrubs, followed up by lasagne ( to build up beds on top of
Judy,
I like both options, together, as the best way of doing the job.
For an urban community garden on this size plot - 60'x70', with volunteers
doing the lion's share of the work, a bobcat to get out as many of the small
weed trees/shrubs, followed up by lasagne ( to build up beds on
Moves afoot to establish community garden
Tuesday, 12 April 2005
http://stawell.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=newssubclass=local;
category=general%20newsstory_id=385168y=2005m=4
Several members of the Stawell and District Residents Association have formed
a sub-committee with the aim of
Friends,
Community Gardens Ain't Permanent Unless You're Mapped as a Garden, have a
good land use convenant, or Own the Land. This story is absolutely classic.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden
NY TimesApril 13, 2005
The Sanctuary vs. the Oasis
By MICHAEL BRICK
Cultivating community in garden
By Linda Pinkow
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Ah, spring at last.
Time to gather up the branches and leaves buried under an exceptionally
wintry winter.
While most Belmontians cultivate their own gardens, some civic-minded
residents have been working on
Most of us at the Clinton Community Garden, with our 108 queen sized bed (6'
x9') raised bed, bio-energetic, lasagne, plots, don't engage in crop
rotation. We DO engage in year round soil amending (nothing like mid-winter
weekly visits to the garden by people shovelling off the snow, and
Central Iowa gardeners may donate their extra plant sections to a Des Moines
program that matches divided plants with schools, neighborhood groups and
community organizations wanting to beautify their grounds.
This year's Great Perennial Divide will be May 14. Gardeners may drop off
their
Good point - Some community gardens have been reaching out to their local
schools in order to make educational partnerships. It requires that the
community
garden has insurance, garden members that can assist and open the facilities
when the classes arrive, enough diverse, and interesting
Deborah,
The problem with community gardens started from the top, instead of grown
from the rooots, comes down to the nexus of a volunteer organization having
the structural problem/habit of looking to Dad, or Mom, to provide
guidance, direction and material support. This isn't fatal, and
Friends,
I really think this is the architypical, Spring has sprung in our community
garden, article. Would that articles like this became cliches in our news
media, instead of, He was a loner, and nobody would have predicted..., or
Paris Hilton.., etc. etc.
The photo in this link is sweet,
Friends,
I never look a gift horse in the, well Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Mary Tschinkel) directly as she is the source of this bounty.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden
From: M A TSCHINKEL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:06
Re plot applications: Here is a link to the Clinton Community Garden's website
- http://clintoncommunitygarden.org. Please click the
http://clintoncommunitygarden.org/rules__regulations.htm button and read.
We have applications for both our front and back gardens and require applicants
to
This is for cg newbies who don't know how to send out an all point bulletin
for strong backs, asap, to their garden crew.
This went out to all of our gardeners, volunteers and people with strong backs.
FYI - All of our coordinators, as the author of this note is, steering
committee
Ms. Kushner,
If the volunteer listserve doesn't write 'em, the volunteer digester can't
digest 'em! Now for a good amount of that time, a number of the literary
participants of the listserve were engaged in attending or volunteering their
time at the ACGA national convention in NYC.
This is an update for interested ACGA listserve members:
Friends,
We in NYC are expecting many gardens to be bulldozed when Attorney General
Spitzer's community garden lawsuit against the City of New York is settled. Of
the 146-odd gardens in question, a goodly number will be demolished. The
Sara,
There is a wonderful old Lenny Bruce routine called Thank You Masked Man,
in which the Lone Ranger has a problem hanging around to take the thank you's.
The old Radio and TV show had him riding into the sunset with Tonto without
being there to be thanked.
In real life, I have
Zach:
What an afternoon of turgid reading you have had! Sorry, buddy, but it's
only the tip of the iceberg as far as understanding how the agreement made
between NY State Attorney General and the City of New York works.
One of the great things about being an American Community Gardening
FYI
Subj: CYBERGARDENS: Rain or not, Chief Red Deer presentation is on,
Tuesday, August 5
Date: 8/5/03 12:15:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Project Harmony's Parents, Friends
From the ACGA links page: A
HREF=http://www.communitygarden.org/links/index.html#Children;Gardening With
Children/A
Happy reading.
Adam Honigman
Subj: [cg] Kids Programs
Date: 8/5/03 11:45:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Judy Tiger has it right. Getting all of the shareholders and potential
shareholders in a room with a skillful facilitator (or an experienced Mom ) a
black board and a map of the area could help you get the win-win you want.
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
A
Friends,
Ms. Amanda Maria Edmonds, twenty- something ACGA board member and scholar,
put together this really comprehensive survey of Community Garden Research and
had it sent out to all current ( and two year lapsed) ACGA members by our
intrepid team in the ACGA office in Virgina. It was
Connie,
Boy are you ambitious - with FFA's ( Future Farmers of America) closing down
left and right ,you want to teach kids to be gardeners and businesspeople at
the same time.
You want to teach these poor innocent kids how they can have their hearts
broken as farmers, eh? Put these
You are invited to
Plant for Life: Include Native Plants, Workshop with Mark Leger
Sunday, August 17, 2PMrain or shine
El Jardine del Paradiso
5th Street Garden Entrance, Between Avenue C Avenue D, Manhattan
Reconnecting with native plants can draw us closer to the wonders of nature,
the
For the Archives
Posted on Fri, Jul. 12, 2002
Scourge of community gardens: Land sales
By Denise Cowie
Inquirer Columnist
One morning last month, Kathleen Garvin found herself in the middle of a
community gardener's nightmare: The garden she and others had lovingly tended
for
years on
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Friend,
There have been farming programs in prisons for a very long time. It has
been said that the Prison Farm at Anglola Prison, in Louisiana is one of the
largest organic gardens in the country. However, rehabilitation is not central
to
the Angola Prison mission ( one of the nation's
Hey Pat,
The Winnepeg Free Press only lets folks get access to their web articles if
they are 7 day subscribers. If you know of someone who is, maybe you could
persuade them, please, to forward the listserve a copy of that article on
Jeneva and her garden efforts.
Thanking you in advance,
Friends,
This missive from the MoreGardens! folks is interesting, because it shows how
gardeners are interacting with Bronx politicians, and sustainable housing
groups like Nos Quedamos in the Melrose Section of the Bronx in this post 2002
NYC Attorney General/NYC Community Gardening
Ms. Barriga,
For starters, you might want to contact the nice folks involved with the
Cornell University based Garden Mosaics community gardening educational
program:
A HREF=http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/gardenmosaics/;Garden Mosaics/A
In addition to Mr. Jim Call's sage advice, I would suggest
Friends,
This is long, unedited and personal, and only partially about community
gardens, so don't feel you have to read it. I'm just sending it out for those
folks who want to know what one of the 50 million folks who experienced the
blackout felt about it.
This was actually the third NYC
Rosie,
Hopefully you have an alderman who might take the brilliant example of
Chicago's Mayor Daley's roof gardens seriously (there's one on the roof of City
Hall!)
Here are some quick links:
The City of Chicago's guide to rooftop gardening with downloadable PDF: A
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