Well, it is nice for Oakland to have a 5 acre roof top garden, but here we are in a have-not-province, in a have-not-city and community gardeners are faced with looking at gardens just disappear. There is hardly money to keep the pot-holes-on our streets patched. At noon today I am going to a meeting which will discuss housing for mentally ill homeless aboriginal people. Housing providers may say 'roof-top gardens are a possibility" but with funding as it is, they are not even remotely possible. I think the real answer is in bringing some kind of common sense to the table. I would hesitate to agree with developers, go ahead and put a building on the garden ,we will put a roof top garden on. The rooftop garden will not, in all lliklihood, be realized. Because of funding. I totally agree with Mike Mc. thanks Mike, We are a pretty poor city here. But that doesn't stop developers from saying, don't oppose our development and we will get you a rooftop garden. Was'nt there one of these that collapsed on a parking garage in Kansas some years ago, because the developers did not consider the weight of wet soil and it collapsed the whole thing in? I would much rather be planning what crop to use as green manure than attending meetings about housing for the homeless, but .... off we go. I love the Jacobs cattle bean. Housing, Housing, Housing...
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