Thank you so much Judy/Ken, the group may find this CSIRLO Biochar PDF factsheet interesting
http://www.csiro.au/files/files/pnzp.pdf -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, 30 January 2009 4:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Community_garden Digest, Vol 647, Issue 1 Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to [email protected] 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 [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Have YOU voted for White House farmer? (Steven Garrett) 2. Community Garden Design? (heide martin) 3. Re: Biochar (Judith Hainaut) 4. Re: Community Garden Design? (Judith Hainaut) 5. Re: Community Garden Design? (jim embry) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:22:54 -0800 (PST) From: Steven Garrett <[email protected]> Subject: [Community_garden] Have YOU voted for White House farmer? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Our local farmer, Carrie Little, has been leading most of the time in this purely symbolic vote, but what is important is all the exposure she, and consequently sustainable agriculture is getting locally. She is getting her 15 minutes of Warholian fame. Not that she does it for fame (or money) obviously. Steven M. Garrett, PhC, MS, RD Food Geographer "Will work for food issues" ________________________________ From: MJ Worcester <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:57:10 AM Subject: [Community_garden] Have YOU voted for White House farmer? Last time I looked, about 15,000 votes had been cast for White House farmer (www.whitehousefarmer.com -- click VOTE and then vote). Who wins doesn't really matter. This is such great exposure for sustainable agriculture, grow your own and buy local but we need 115,000 votes or better yet, 215,000 to make any kind of impact! If you have not voted, please do. If you have, send the link to everyone you know and get them to vote. I'd love if you voted for my CSA farmer, Claire Strader ( http://whitehousefarmer.com/?p=88), but the important thing is VOTE! Martha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communityga rden.org/attachments/20090128/5f344a40/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communityga rden.org/attachments/20090128/49b18267/attachment.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:55:46 +0000 From: heide martin <[email protected]> Subject: [Community_garden] Community Garden Design? To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Greetings fellow list-servers, I am doing a bit of research on the design of urban agriculture, particularly community forms of urban agriculture. I am interested in looking at different approaches to the design of community gardens and how these approaches may or may not impact the longevity, productivity, and aesthetics of the garden. I would appreciate it if people would like to share with me their experience or knowledge of a community garden space that is beautifully designed and organized, one that has become more than just a "productive plot of land" for its users. If anyone would like to share links, photos, names, antidotes, experiences, etc, I would much appreciate it! Thank you, Heide -- Heide MartinMasters CandidateDepartment of Landscape ArchitectureUniversity of Washington4237 8th Ave NE, Apt 302Seattle, WA 98105614.787.3501 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? Hotmail?:?more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore _012009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communityga rden.org/attachments/20090129/cb9738f0/attachment.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:23:59 -0500 From: "Judith Hainaut" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Biochar To: "Ken Hargesheimer" <[email protected]>, "Carolyn Bush" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <181289b72a10400db0f9726521c3a...@hainaut> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Biochar doesn't destroy crop residues. The people who advocate using it that way do. We must advocate for it being used to recycle organic material that would go to landfills and sewage - never crop residues. That is so shortsighted that it has to have been thought up by nonfarmers or by the chemical industry. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hargesheimer" <[email protected]> To: "Carolyn Bush" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Biochar > Biochar improves the soil compared to what? Chemical farming? Not > compared to organic, no-till. If there is a farmer anywhere in the world > using biochar, please email me his address. > > Ken Hargesheimer > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communityga rden.org/attachments/20090128/d20b5f5c/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > 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: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:26:51 -0500 From: "Judith Hainaut" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Community Garden Design? To: "heide martin" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <e46d6f17d5c74ddaa84bc70cb36f7...@hainaut> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original That's what I'm trying to help happen at our community garden Heide. It's at a church and we're putting up a grape arbor this spring with a memorial plaque for one of our members who died last year. And we have a grassy space bordered by fruit trees at one side of the garden which we hope will be a gathering place with tables and benches and flowers and maybe could be used for weddings. I think adding things like these is what makes a community garden a place where people can come and sit and enjoy. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "heide martin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:55 PM Subject: [Community_garden] Community Garden Design? Greetings fellow list-servers, I am doing a bit of research on the design of urban agriculture, particularly community forms of urban agriculture. I am interested in looking at different approaches to the design of community gardens and how these approaches may or may not impact the longevity, productivity, and aesthetics of the garden. I would appreciate it if people would like to share with me their experience or knowledge of a community garden space that is beautifully designed and organized, one that has become more than just a "productive plot of land" for its users. If anyone would like to share links, photos, names, antidotes, experiences, etc, I would much appreciate it! Thank you, Heide -- Heide MartinMasters CandidateDepartment of Landscape ArchitectureUniversity of Washington4237 8th Ave NE, Apt 302Seattle, WA 98105614.787.3501 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? Hotmail?:?more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore _012009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To: heide martin <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Heide, We use the concept of art\gardens a lot in our work here in Lexington, KY...you can see photos at www.sustainlex.org under projects... esp Winburn Community Garden, Youth GreenCorps page,other links and on my facebook page. In our view art and gardening are naturally connected...see my interview at: www.public-republic.net under interviews. In our urban ag projects we have children planting veggies, trees, flowers etc...but also painting raised beds, tomato sticks, garbage cans, rain barrels, murals and more. This past fall we included the youth in constructing a gazebo, a painted turtle "picnic table" and bench using strawbale construction, set up and painted a "windmill" using a trashed ceiling fan. We use lots of found objects and reclaimed containers in our garden art work. The youth paint garbage cans and rain barrels and them distribute them in the community. We also build bird houses, bird feeders from found wood. We have meals in the garden, classes, and more to create a communal space. Veggies, flowers and herbs are planted together to create lots of beneficial effects. Circular patterns for garden spaces as well as square linear patterns are used. Sacred symbols are part of the design work....ITS ALL FUN!!! We are part of the UN Art Miles Mural Project.... and we use concepts from ROW...River of Words...so kids produce murals and poetry that relate to the garden. speaking of poetry check out this bro... Nine-year-old rapper lays down cool tracks for a warming world! If you haven't heard of Lil' Peppi yet, you're in for a big surprise: This third-grader from Florida is putting eco-rap on the map with his talent for crafting rhymes for the times! His first single, Mother Nature's Crying [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NcSaxeExKI], is a You Tube sensation, and he is repeating success with his second hit, Melting Ice [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXuldy-]. A cooler world never sounded so hot - hear his interview with Earth Day Network here [ http://earthday.net/lilpeppi]! lots of love and hugs jim embry Sustainable Communities Network www.Sustainlex.org <http://www.sustainlex.org/> "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." ~Arundhati Roy "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... It comes only through the tireless efforts and passionate concern of dedicated individuals ... This is no time for apathy nor complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action."~? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:55 PM, heide martin <[email protected]>wrote: > > Greetings fellow list-servers, > > I am doing a bit of research on the design of urban agriculture, > particularly community forms of urban agriculture. I am interested in > looking at different approaches to the design of community gardens and how > these approaches may or may not impact the longevity, productivity, and > aesthetics of the garden. > > I would appreciate it if people would like to share with me their > experience or knowledge of a community garden space that is beautifully > designed and organized, one that has become more than just a "productive > plot of land" for its users. If anyone would like to share links, photos, > names, antidotes, experiences, etc, I would much appreciate it! > > Thank you, > > Heide > -- Heide MartinMasters CandidateDepartment of Landscape > ArchitectureUniversity of Washington4237 8th Ave NE, Apt 302Seattle, WA > 98105614.787.3501 > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live? Hotmail(R):?more than just e-mail. > > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore _012009 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygar den.org/attachments/20090129/cb9738f0/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. 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