This climate change in the Northeast is really nuts... Before going to work a double on New Years day, I saw a crocus starting to come up in my front garden plot, the decorative cabbages I put in as a space saver flourishing, and the Japanese Magnolia ( tulip tree) budding. I have no idea of whats going to happen with the couple of hundred tulip and daffodil bulbs I planted at the Clinton Community Garden, the Liz Christy Garden and DeWitt Clinton Park. My New Years Day walk in Central Park was truly mad...the lawns are stunningly green, and there was no snow - the first winter since 1888 ( when they started measuring this) with no snow....people out jogging in shorts. Lots of fogs - the highlight of my day was a brace of swans in Central Park Lake, on January 1st no less. Composting goes apace, the coffee grinds, and veggie scraps are going into the working Compost at the Clinton Community Garden ( there is none active while Liz Christy is in renovation or at DeWitt Clinton Park) but volunteers at all places are out working - we're replacing the red brick on the garden's rear walkways, using the high technology of the Roman Empire, as we call it...and it looks grand. And it's a great time to oil tools, and dream of spring, or in our case a month or so of real winter so our bulbs behave. Those with grow lights are starting seeds, looking at catalogues, planning out ways of doing better. Some of us are still growing lettuces in cloches. And the NYC community garden coalition is having a meeting later this month to deal with the political sustainability issues that underly all of the work we do. Because we play community garden on land - and land use is always political. And I wrote some letters of support of the London Allotments scheduled to be bulldozed for an Olympic venue, in solidarity, while starting some seeds. It's all one issue - because as hard as you garden, when you do it with other people, on land that's public, not privately owned, community gardening is always political. Community gardening remains (sigh) 50% gardening and 100% political action. Best wishes for spring, Adam Honigman -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org Sent: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 1:49 PM Subject: [Community_garden] Back to gardening
Could we discuss some gardening issues. What are you doing now to get ready for Spring plantings? Composting and other soil amendments etc. Let's get back to gardening. Row placement east/West or North/South. Raised beds. Till or no till. How do I get started letting other people use some of my land for their garden? Thanks Harold in Oklahoma City -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org]On Behalf Of community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:01 AM To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org Subject: Community_garden Digest, Vol 72, Issue 2 Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to community_garden at list.communitygarden.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org You can reach the person managing the list at community_garden-owner at list.communitygarden.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Monsanto (Judith Hainaut) 2. Hunger in Cuba (Karen Jones) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:26:35 -0500 From: "Judith Hainaut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Community_garden] Monsanto To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> Message-ID: <00ba01c737df$9db1fa30$6701a8c0 at athomeuser> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Whatever good Monsanto may be doing in the world, making seeds that grow plants that don't reproduce themselves so that farmers have to buy the seeds every year rather than being able to save them has to be classified as "evil" I think. Been hearing about all the farmers in India who have been committing suicide in recent years over this very issue? Judy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygar den.org/attachments/20070114/c14b302d/attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:23:10 -0600 From: "Karen Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Community_garden] Hunger in Cuba To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> Message-ID: <s5a9f69b.014 at ds1.uwinnipeg.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi All, Cuba. I have been to Cuba many times and I have to say that I haven't seen people going through garbage looking for food. As I even have seen here in Winnipeg and don't even mention other places in the Carribean (the shame of N.A for instance Haiti) Haiti, Haiti, where you hardly see any old people, because the life expectancy is so low. Where there is not a doctor, a dentist or any public schools. Cuba is full of old people, because the health system is so good. Say what you will about Cuba, all children are educated, all children wear shoes, and the measurement of how well a population is doing (number of children per 1000 who die at birth) is right up there with Denmark, Sweden etc countries who have been traditionally thought to have the highest standard of living. Cuba or Haiti, I'll take Cuba anyday. Yes, I have been to Haiti. Haiti has very enlightened Environmental and Conservation legislation. Yet the whole place is devestated, absolutely devestated. It could be the same in Cuba. But it is not. And that is the point. Karen >>> community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org 01/14/07 5:11 AM >>> Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to community_garden at list.communitygarden.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org You can reach the person managing the list at community_garden-owner at list.communitygarden.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Stakhanovite Cuban Green Revolution? (adam36055 at aol.com) 2. Re: Stakhanovite Cuban Green Revolution? (Deborah Mills) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:48:29 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Community_garden] Stakhanovite Cuban Green Revolution? To: sgarrett at u.washington.edu, community_garden at list.communitygarden.org Message-ID: <8C905BF222ECF2C-50C-483A at FWM-M45.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Steven, With the American embargo lifted, and with foreign investment from the USA permitted, even the staunchest anti-Castro/Raul Cubans would be lined up to invest, for starters in the vuelta abajo (lower Delta) tobacco growing region, and in areas where many have old pre-revolution property deeds abrogated by the Revolution. And yes, the country is still hungry - I have a neighbor here in NY who sends food packages to relatives on a bi-weekly basis - she's old, and I schlepp them to the Post Office. 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