Mary, I always encourage more gardens just because people tend to work things out only if they get together and see what it is that they are missing if they don't do it.
The biggest road block is liability. Setting up affordable insurance for massage therapists in 1990 took us five years and a cross North America search, but once it was set up then all of a sudden there were insurance providers popping up all over and competition brought the price down to 15% of the first quotes. So, maybe this can be a project between a group of cities in one state to take on setting up gardens on private land. I have not asked what the ACGA is doing to support this sort of thing or even if its within the organizational mandate. ~ robyn ________________________________ From: Mary Reilly-Kliss <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 7, 2011 9:26:00 AM Subject: [Community_garden] Community Gardening on Private Citizen's Property All- Lots of local interest here for community gardens, but out of usable publicly-owned spaces in the area. A private citizen is interested in renting plots to gardeners. Initially, I discouraged him due to legal risks, but am wondering if I need to re-think that. Any experiences/recommendations pro/con? Awaiting your thoughts and a snow melt! Mary Reilly-Kliss Coordinator, Washington County Community Garden West Bend, WI [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110307/05049740/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.communitygarden.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110307/fdcbd9ab/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.communitygarden.org
