"Wine Critics who praise the 'complexity' of red Burgundy and Champagne are on
target. A team of French and Italian researchers has mapped the genome of the
pinot noir grape, used to make bubbly and many red wines from France's Burgundy
region and around the world - and it has about 30,000
genes
Friends,
It can always get interesting
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Lowry Garden
?
(CBS4) AURORA, Colo. A construction contractor was digging next to a community
garden in the Lowry neighborhood between Denver and Aurora when it accidentally
created a major asbestos release last month.
Friends,
I've been under the weather of late,? and like many folks living with the
"black dog,"??misplaced?my sense of humor.
?So I've not been writing much about gardens & life on Manhattan Island as I
have in the past - the "buzzing, booming mass", as the psychologist James
brother described
Gay garden club digs good works, humor
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Brian Albrecht
Plain Dealer Reporter
South Euclid -- Blisters rose with buried debris as members of the newly formed
Cleveland Gay Garden Club recently came out of the closet of cultural
stereotypes, wielding shovels and a wry
Amazing - some of our tax dollars spent on life - instead of the taking
thereof.
Thank you,
Adam Honigman
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Here goes for Don and folks generally interested in community gardens?
Layout:
"First, on community garden layout. Though there are
zillions of variations, I think I've seen 3 styles of
plot layouts, basically - 1. a jumble of differently
sized plots; 2. grouping like-sized beds together (all
t
Social Fertilizer
The big growth potential of urban agriculture.
View full article and comments here
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/09/12/UrbanAgriculture/
By Amanda McCuaig
Published: September 12, 2006
The Peak
It was 2003 when Jason O'Brien got sick of watching binners and crows rip
through the l
Garden project grows trust between young and older generations
Published on 07/09/2006
Celebration: As the garden is re-openedJohn Story
YOUNG people from the Phoenix Youth Project have injected life into Stafford
Court gardens for pensioners.
With the assistance of Home to Work and Home Housing,
Residents at Applewood Estates reap what they sow
Keeping active found to provide them with health, social benefits
After spending much of their lives tilling New Jersey soil, Bill Black and
Lloyd Van Doren have revived their interest in farming, turning it into a
fruitful hobby in gardening.
Urban gardens feed appetite for education, self-reliance
By Cynthia Hubert, SACRAMENTO BEE
NO DOUBT about it, Xante Mitchell said with a sigh, this farming business is
hard work.
Moving along a freshly tilled row of collard greens, a light sweat began to
form on Xante's forehead as he clipped
Reader content advisory: For persons interested in reading about how
committed people in communities of color and their allies engage with the
representatives of the elected officials and the development communities to
create win-wins for this inner-city constituency - housing AND gardens.
Thes
Garden takes root in Troy
Roger Larsen looks over his plot in the Troy community garden.
By GWEN ALBERS
Western News Reporter
Some folks in Troy are attempting to reintroduce the word "community" back into
the community.
What better way than with a community garden.
"We all have plots and it's
Garden Helps Healing Process
Thu Sep 14, 11:23 AM ET
A garden in Magnolia is a labor of love that has grown through volunteers with
a purpose. For the director, Judy Rose, the Helping Hands Community Garden was
at first a way to deal with a loved one's illness.
"When my daughter was first d
Friends,
>From ancient Roman days to the onset of the creation of large chemical
>concerns in the 19th Centuries, poison was considered too valuable to use on
>mere vermin, but was a rare substance, fit for Political assasinations by the
>likes of the family of Julius Caesar and the Borgias
Friends,
Remember the Jack Russell terrier on Kelsey Grammer TV series "Frasier,"?
Adorable, no?
Well...the Jack Russell terrier, traditionally trained is the ultimate
"mad-dog killer," of rats and other small vermin. They are truly vicious, when
their are discouraged from being "cute,
Dear ACGA, the Research Committee and Amanda,
Vinnie Bevine looks like he has the opportunity to change lives in a community
by community gardening and needs help, asap to get it done. We should have the
research - can we get it to him via e-mail attachment so he can have the matter
at hand
Congratulations Libby
Thirty Years!!! What an achievement. Thanks for showing us all that it can be
done! And it's great that you've invited and acknowledged the support you've
had from your local elected officials from both sides of the aisle.
Community gardens ARE a baby that politic
Please let me know if you can't get the PDF file opened, or if the ACGA
system cut off the PDF attachement. I guess you can ask Magali Regis to send
one to you if you request it from her at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
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This is exactly the kind of public service announcement that we should all
have a chance to read on the ACGA listserv as part of the content mix.
These are great for newbies to read as a way to get ideas on how to set up
their promotional, "bring the community in," community garden parties th
Looks like a great study - there's an ACGA group that's collecting Community
Garden research for the purpose of arguing for community gardens - a quick
glance makes this look like a great candidate.
Thanks Sunny!!!
This is EXACTLY what many interested community gardeners are looking for as
Organic community garden overflows
Diane Rode, left, and Paula Schauss work in a community garden in Northwood.
(Photo by Gwen Albers)
By GWEN ALBERS
Western News Reporter
Two Libby women with help from friends, neighbors and co-workers have
cultivated a community garden overflowing with vegeta
Hmmm...
To show a community garden in 400 sq feet at a garden show, in miniature-
Elements that I'd have would be a small raised bed with a plank like seat, long
handed tools, and perhaps a crutch or wheelchair next to it, with a colorful
garden bag slung from it with a worn, but cheeful
COMMUNITY GARDENS
Urban greenewal: Fruits, vegetables, and flowers are thriving in lots
throughout the city
Taylor Howard, 6, left, and Nazhiere Taylor, 6, check to see whatbs growing
in the garden at the Frederick Douglass Community Center in Toledo.
( THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER )
Zoom | Photo Re
Friends,
Sometimes when community gardens are started from "the top down," they fail
when "Mom," or "Dad," isn't intimately involved - this from the
A good idea, recycled
Glenn Voris hopes the community appreciates a new park more than his neglected
community garden
By Cindy Larson [EMAIL PROTECT
A garden in Freedom Grows thousands of pounds of veggies for the hungry
By Emily Saarman
Sentinel Correspondent
FREEDOM b Volunteers from Second Harvest Food Bank in Watsonville harvested
almost 900 pounds of crisp cucumbers, glossy chili peppers, squash and corn
from a local garden Saturday.
Th
Garden gets the go ahead
Tuesday, 29 August 2006
A COMMUNITY garden will be established behind the Wingham Court House
following Greater Taree City Council's approval of the scheme at their August
meeting.
The garden will come under the auspices of Manning Valley Neighbourhood
Services which lease
The Nevada Appeal
Update on Alice Bloyd and her garden plot
Jane Lehrman
Silver and Sage coordinator
August 28, 2006
Alice Bloyd, featured in the June issue of Silver and Sage, had just started
her community garden plot at the time of her interview.
"Of all things, I got sick that day and was
Community gardeners get skunked - and deered and squirreled and coyoted and ...
August 27, 2006
While the quail family we wrote about recently suffered a sad fate, such was
not the case with a skunk accidentally trapped at the Carson City Community
Garden on Beverly Drive, across from the new
For anyone interested in this job, please go to optimist.com
Best regards,
Adam Honigman
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Adam, Cynth
Tending to the city
By Kate Meyers/ Correspondent
Friday, August 25, 2006 - Updated: 04:12 PM EST
When David Carlson puts his green thumb to work in his garden, hebs not only
helping his vegetables to grow, hebs also breathing life into the community.
Carlson uses his hobby to feed Allston
Encouraging the sprouts to take up gardening
By Virginia A. Smith
Inquirer Staff Writer
Nurturing kids' interest should be fun
Carina Flaherty points to a feathery mound of pale yellow blossoms.
"Coreopsis 'Moonbeam,' my favorite," she says nonchalantly, moving on to
pentas, sedum, bee balm, and
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Kiddo - why make life hard than it absolutely has to be? Grow tomatoes, love
them, but you don't need to get into the minutiae of what seed keep
Friends,
Some community garden content is "greener," than others.
RINGA-DINGA-DING! Come and get it!
Best regards,
Adam Honigman
NYC Community Gardener from Hell's Kitchen
Gardeners can earn cash rewards
According to the National Gardening Association, 83 percent of U.S. households
Sooke's not so secret garden
Pirjo Raits photo
Devon Piche, Mathias Riveiro from Uruguay, Tara Lynne Palfy and Peter Gill from
Canada World Youth help harvest the produce at the community garden at CASA.
By Pirjo Raits
Sooke News Mirror
Aug 23 2006
The community garden at the Sooke Coo
Please let me know if you cannot get the PDF file attachment. If not, I'll
reach out to the NYC - Gardens Coalition for a plain text version.
Best regards,
Adam Honigman
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August 6, 2006
For Immediate Release
URBAN GREEN, A Tour of Harlem Community Gardens
The NYC Community Garden Coalition and Harlem community gardeners will host
b Urban Green, A Tour of Harlem Community Gardens,b on Saturday, August
26th,
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Dear Friends -
Jeanette says:
Hi,
Hope you will be able to attend this practical program and grow more and
longer.
Best wishes,
Both Don B. and I send out a great number of news articles about community
gardening that get's copied to the web versions of English language
periodicals.
And we tell stories from the gardens we are involved with.
No ego trip - we're both ageing spirits from the '60's who really have fire
Ya see the educational things ya learn on this list? Gotta look for that
milkweed!
Best,
Adam
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Hmmm
Well, it does help if you're on a migration route - but a billion Monarch
Butterflies scarfing away might not be what you want -
Try Buddelia - or butterfly bush:
http://www.thebutterflysite.com/butterfly-bush.shtml
Good luck.
Adam Honigman
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Green thumbs
Tour set to showcase the nature of area community gardens.
BY MARGE HOLS
Parade of Community Gardens
The worst fear of community gardeners is that the land they've worked and come
to love will be taken for a different use. That's what happened this year to
people who grew vegetables an
Children Start A North Minneapolis Farmers' Market
Maya Nishikawa
Reporting
(WCCO) Minneapolis What makes a garden grow may help an entire community
become healthier. Kids are harvesting vegetables for the first ever community
farmers' market on Minneapolis' North side.
All summer neighborhood ki
Happy day for flower power generation
Can a hanging basket of flowers really transform a neighbourhood? One group of
Sheffield residents say a few flowers have helped them feel happier. Lucy
Ashton finds out how more
WHAT'S the key to creating community spirit?
On one Sheffield estate it seems i
ACORNS TO OAKS: Susan Stell was recently transferring buses in our town as she
traveled home to Waterbury, Conn. While transferring, she saw a community
garden and when she got home, googled Gateway Greening, which is the community
gardening and greening organization in St. Louis. Saying that s
FROM WILDERNESS TO PERFECT PLOTS
By Richard Wright
A GROWING project has sown the seeds of success for schoolchildren on Newport
allotments.
They have transformed 15 allotments at Pan from a wilderness to productive
plots, starting work in the rain and snow of February and completing the first
Gardeners at the Baldwin Public Garden at Rachel and Fullum were told that
their fruit was contaminated.
Ismael Hautecoeur is the project coordinator for a rooftop garden
Sarah Wakefield from the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives at the University
of Toronto.
CTV.ca News Staff
Updated: Sun. Au
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Subject: RE: Sharing other garden news - thx for keep 'em coming
Don: Adam, as always, is on target. I join his ranks in supporting
your sharing news from other gardens
Lookit - Don,
You've made the assumption that people who subscribe to a community garden
list-serv are interested in reading about community gardens.
Some are. Many would like to be. Many are lurkers and feel guilty when they
don't read the content.
There are some who have reading disab
I'm sure we all know of great folks, college educated, grew up on farms, have
hort degrees that would do the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum Proud - and provide a
great educational experience for the folks in NYC. I know about a dozen -
however
Inquiring minds want to know, commensurate with ex
Friends,
This was originally sent to the Cybergarden's listserv by veteran community
gardener and activist Jon Crow. It shows how much of a challenge development
can be for community gardens, even if they are not bulldozed. Please read the
article links - they are classic.
Regards,
Adam
Alleged? Remember , community gardening is 50% gardening and 100% political
action.
Not to worry...the Cubans, Hmong, Vietnamese ethnic Chinese "boat people,"
and other community garden victims of "worker's paradises," know better. And
they enrich all of our gardens with their work and compan
The Miami Herald on Gay Marielito Cuban Exiles
Posted on Sat, Apr. 23, 2005
A Long Way from Mariel
Invited to leave by the goverment, gays and lesbians -- and a few pretenders
-- took the opportunity to start new lives
By DANIEL SHOER-ROTH
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The first time the Cuban government d
Friends,
The wonderful organic gardening practiced all over Cuba is well documented
and exemplary - and the Cuban pharmaceutical industry is producing, according
to
the BBC all the retrovirs it needs and exporting some to Africa.
However, over the years in NYC, as volunteers in the fight again
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A Long Way from MarielThe first time the Cuban government detained Elio
Poblador, he was 15 and accused of being close to someone involved in a
clandestine sex party. The army drafted him two years later. He served a few
months until the Ca
Just to be sure - this is not the CUBA diet that the government gives people
with HIV/AIDS, i.e.,letting them starve to death or putting them on a raft and
letting them float from Mariel to Florida?
Just to be sureI have some Marielito community gardeners here in NYC, some
at the Bellevue
Friends,
I've found that a good perimeter fence is the best way to deal with predators,
two legged and four.
You have a garden, and you don't want your veggies eaten by any unauthorized
beast.
Norway rats are the four legged creature that gives us the most trouble at the
Clinton Community
Face it, every garden has its share of slugs and "lazy bastids," due to human
nature.
It's best, of course, to have workdays and volunteer hours as a prerequistie of
garden membership laid out, out front and in writing, but because we community
gardeners are such gentle souls and feel that "p
Friends,
This is the most significant community garden legislation to be submitted in
Congress for over 30 years. Please read it and support it. I will be giving
you updates on the bill's progress, and what me need to do to support its
passing - especially lobbying with our local US Congres
Master Gardeners sprout area gardens
By Joel Gallob Of the News-Times
In the 26 years of the Master Gardener program run by the Oregon State
University Extension Service in Lincoln County, more than 350 volunteers have
been trained and graduated as Master Gardeners into the communities, gardens
It is s rare that we have any gossip on our wholesome as dirt listserv - so
I'm pleased to share this bit of NY Post style page six on the director of this
truly heartwarming documentary.
DOCUMENTARY filmmaker Alexandra Isles is remembered by folks my age for her
stellar TV acting caree
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Subject: "Green Streets" screens at Rural Route this weekend!
Dear gardeners,
I am contacting you to remind you about GREEN STREETS, the community gardening
movie, playing this Saturday at th
The Friends of the Bellevue Sobriety Garden cordially invite you to celebrate
the Sobriety Garden's robust future at an informal GARDEN PARTY on Wednesday,
July 26, 5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Non-alcoholic beverages will be served, and
there will be a chance to sample some of the just-picked tomatoe
Dear Mr. Feris,
Thank you for sharing this information from the Rutgers Coopertive Extension.
I'm delighted to hear of the health of this fine NJ Master gardener program.
In New Jersey
There are great mysteries to life in the Big Apple. One is why you can wait
for an hour for a MTA Number 11
July 20, 2006
A Garden of Second Chances Gets a Second Chance at Life
By EMILY VASQUEZ
The Sobriety Garden, tucked behind Bellevue Hospital Center and tended by
clients of the hospitalbs chemical dependency outpatient program, was
supposed to have been paved over by mid-July to make way for a park
Dear Friends:
Good news! The Sobriety Garden has been saved!
Dr. Miescher got word this morning following a meeting between Bellevue and our
local politicians that the hospital has agreed to not destroy the garden, and
to find its parking spaces elsewhere. We are enormously grateful to ev
Friends,
If you like laying rescued slate, in the midst of a beautiful garden grape
arbor, with pretty darn good company, come by the Clinton Community Garden, on
West 48th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues in NYC this coming Friday and
Sunday.
As I said to a young, pretty chiseled guy
Please remember that museums are NOT in the garden business. However, if your
gardeners worked out a "concept," making this an ART GARDEN, that would
compliment the Museum, instead of being an add on - that conceptually would fit
in with the museum, then the Museum could see this as a plus..
Somehow Bill's cc didn't go through, and I know you all want to send your
bucks...;)
Best regards,.
Adam Honigman
NYC
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Friends,
I don't hear often from Barbara Brookhart at the Bryant Parks Restoration, but
when I do, it aways "counts." I'd take her recommendation to look at this
magazine and the book it reviewed.
Regards,
Adam Honigman
Hell's Kitchen, NYC
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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
Want to vote on the future of a Federal Park? Here's your chance. Ain't
e-mail democracy grand?
Regards,
Adam Honigman
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Friends,
>From the front - English Guerilla Gardeners strike again! Subversive Urban
beautification projects under cover of darkness.
Adam Honigman
Ancient Green Guerilla, NYC
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There is, no doubt, some excellent organic gardening going on in Cuba. World
class - none better.
However, I do garden in NYC with folks who were part of the Mariel and later
dumps of "undesiriables," by the Cuban government - in the case of my fellow
gardeners,gay and HIV positive men, who
Friends,
A good piece on what the American Horticultural Therapy Association does, and a
fine garden in Utah,
Regards,
Adam Honigman
Freedom Garden helps troubled women sow seeds of confidence and happiness
By Judy Magid
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
I always knew gardening w
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A good piece on a Utah therapeutic garden Best regards, Adam Honigman
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Freedom Garden helps troubled women sow seeds of confidence and happiness
By Judy Magid
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt La
Elvira,
Practically,it would be best to go to your local Cuban consulate a few months
in advance of your trip to arrange work as part of your ecotour of this
worker's paradise. It is, as you know, a command economy - and I'm sure you
would
have work if you coordinated your trip with the sugar
'Defiant Gardens' brought comfort in war
By Heather Lee Schroeder
Special to The Capital Times
July 1, 2006
In the 1950s, Abraham Maslow said humans care about their aesthetic or
intellectual needs only after all their other basic needs -- food, shelter,
security and social approval -- are met.
Friends,
Thank you for your support of the Bellevue Hosptial Sobriety Garden in NYC.
Your e-mails, letters of support, telephone calls to the legislators listed on
our website seems to be getting the attention of the powers that be: The
healing, therapeutic Bellevue Sobriety Garden cannot be dest
Friends,
When in doubt, please look at the ACGA links - there's a wealth of information
listed there, including many hyperlinks to Community Garden studies. Annual
membership to help support this free resource available for Pizza and Beer
prices ( http://www.communitygarden.org)
http://c
The ACGA is always interested in community garden studies. Please go to the
ACGA website for contacts, etc.
http://www.communitygarden.org
Best regards,
Adam Honigman
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Friends,
In 30 years of community gardening in NYC, I've come to realize that getting
political support, and doing the political work to get that support is a
crucial to the survival of gardens as gardeners, sunlight, water and seed.
For developers, bureaucrats, and anyone who wants the la
Friends,
The Bellevue Sobriety Garden is at the Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First
Avenue (at 28th Street) in Manhattan. Enter main entrance atrium, and proceed
directly back (with the main flow of foot traffic) to the older part of
Bellevue to the building known as "New Bellevue." This brin
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(http://www.flickr.com/photos/goggla/sets/7205759416313/)
This link to 6BC Garden works for me - you may want to cut and paste it in
your browser.
Adam
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In NYC, as many of our gardens were redeemed from rubble strewn lots, the
garden paths are made from brick, laid into a sand or gravel foundation.
If bricks are there, just for the asking, I can't think of a better, more
permanent garden path. Years back, the brickwork paths of the famous
Statement by Friends of the Bellevue Hospital Sobriety Garden - Thursday
evening June 22nd - Health Services Commitee of CB6. Bellevue Hospital Center,
"Old Medical Library," CD Building, 8th Floor - 6:00 PM.
Delivered by Adam Honigman, member, Friends of the Bellevue Hospital Sobriety
Garden
L
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More local coverage from LA
L.A. Garden Shut Down; 40 Arrested
Protesters are forcibly taken from the site that had flourished for years in
a poor area. The owner refuses the city's $16-million offer.
By Hector Becerra, Megan Garvey and Steve Hymon, LA Times Staff Writers
June 14, 2006
Los Ang
Friends,
An interesting view on the Urban Farm Evictions.
Adam Honigman
Hell's Kitchen, NYC
_http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-me-lopez14jun14,0,4277454.c
olumn?coll=la-news-comment-editorials_
(http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-me-lopez14jun14,0,4277454.col
By EMILY VASQUEZ
Published: June 14, 2006
When Charles Flax talks about the small garden tucked just behind the Bellevue
Hospital Center, it becomes clear that the space is more than a few vegetable
beds and a tool shed.
It is one place where, Mr. Flax, 60, said, he has restored his dignity.
"You'r
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h
Friends,
This is from South Central Farms in LA, where a 14 acre community garden has
been destroyed for profit. This dispatch, from the front is from David
King, a community gardener and master gardener from the LA area.
What can you really say in a situation like this, except "sorry for your
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL SOBRIETY GARDEN
Founded 1989
The garden sits on a small sliver of land carved out on b the south lawnb
of
Bellevue Hospital, flanked by the main hospital building, the FDR on the
east, 26th Street on the south, b the south parking lotb on the west. It
covers approximately
A first draft idea for r the teenagers
I. Formal viewing garden:
You take a big blank table, and call it empty lot. Cover it with newsprint.
Mark areas "rocky", "deep shade," "mottled light," full sun. Have them do
the mathematical work to put the space to scaleand work out probl
Friends,
It looks like it's going to be a great ACGA Convention in LA this August -
the brochure that arrived in the mail looks splendid, and the conference
workshops are as good as anything I've seen. I hope I can get there this
August.
The ACGA regional committee has done a tremendo
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Joan Baez joins tree-sitting bid to save LA garden
2006-05-24
Folk singer Joan Baez sang "We Shall Overcome" from a tree-top perch in Los
Angeles on Wednesday in a bid to save a community garden from demolition.
Baez, 65, who gave voice to civil rights and anti-war campaigners in the 1960s,
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COOPED UP? HERE'S WHERE TO FIND FRESH AIR IN NEW YORK CITY
By KATHERINE DYKSTRA and ADAM BONISLAWSKI
May 25, 2006 -- COMMUNITY GARDENS
By KATHERINE DYKSTRA
WHEN Colan McGeehan and his wife, Melissa, relocated from Allentown, Pa., to
New York earlier this year, the idea of living in the
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