So you're gonna need some money for the reborn garden. Bill, please post the snail mail, e-mail address of the new garden, or the 501(c) (3) that is helping the garden out, for tax-purposes, so I can circulate it and send some dough myself. Best regards, Adam Honigman Hell's Kitchen, NYC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 9:25 PM Subject: [cg] Community Garden being reborn!
you might remember reading on this listserve about a downtown Sacramento Community garden (Ron Mandella Community Garden) that was shut down after 30 years due to development and contaminanted soil... some good news....although the development was build.. 1/3 of the garden was allowed to remain and will be transfered to the city parks n rec dept after the garden is built by CADA - Capitol Area Development Authority (the site was cleaned to a depth of 24" to 42" through a grant from the california EPA brownfields program (approx $400,000) with soils tests before, during and after the cleaning.. and testing of the new soil as well. With this cleaning going on.. we offered sign ups for plots for the future garden to be constructed with in 6 months (fall 2006) we did this to both test the interest and to gather gardeners to help build and fund raise for the gardens construction. 2 hours before the meeting, people started lining up for the 50 plots, and by the time the meeting started at 5:30pm there were over 30 persons in line for garden plots! the meeting was to give an overview of the project and also have folks sign up and give a $25 deposit on their future garden plot. the mayor also attended and praised the efforts and the need for more gardens. by the end of the meeting 45 of the 50 garden plots had been reserved.; and in the next few days 49 of the 50 plots were spoken for... the one remaining plot is one of 4 ADA accessible plots. we knew there was a need and interest for the garden, we expected to sign up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the plots...as a side note.. only 3 of the Ron Mandella Gardeners signed up for plots (the garden had been closed for 2 years during the construction of the apartments) the gardeners started working on their first fund raiser a wine tasting / silent auction and Art work silent auction...while some were unsure of this event...flyers, radio, emails all got the info out ... ticket sales were at about 100 the day before the event ($25each).. the fund raising committee along with councilmember Rob Fong amd his staff rolled up their sleeves, planned the event and found fantastic silent auction and raffle ticket prizes! approx $3500-$4500 in prizes... we had a great turn out that night we went through 300 wine glasses at the 1/2 way point... and by the end of the event we were nearly to 400 room capacity!! what a success! have to mention that one of the silent auction items was 18 holes of golf with councilmember Rob Fong and the City fire chief...that went for $600 ! we are now working on getting donations for the garden with construction planned for the early fall. as bids came in almost double the estimated costs ($300,000) .. we are phasing the garden and planning to organize the gardeners and others to help build the garden with the gardeners and others help and not bid it all out (as was required by CADA being a public agency). stay tuned for more details! See you at the conference! Bill Maynard ACGA board member, Sacramento ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
