Friends,
We all owe Mark Leger a big hand for creating his garden blog -
http://www.freedigger.com/. which will share the visions of many of NYC's
community
gardeners and serve as a forum for updates on the evolving relationship
between the
paid, always well meaning and sometimes professional gard
Friends,
This newly minted Minnesota Master Gardener/Journalist wrote this piece in
the Winona Daily News. For all the world, he looks like someone who needs a
local MN community gardener to reach out to him and give him some guidance in
setting up a community garden.
Best wishes,
Adam Honi
Friends,
Jane Weissman, former director of Green Thumb, wrote this "Short History of
NYC Community Gardens," that appears on the NYC based Neighborhood Open Space
Coalitoin website. As we have newbies on the list, and I'm a big fan of
keeping
folks from making avoidable mistakes in this community
Friends,
Would that the NYC Agriculture, or USDA Secretary did the same!
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden, NYC.
Georgia agriculture commissioner plants first veggies in Heritage Community
Garden
By Aisha I. Jefferson
Kneeling on his right knee, Geor
Published April 7, 2005
Free flowers
Area nonprofit groups to receive plants through beautification program.
Area nonprofit groups can receive flowering plants through a beautification
program.
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REGISTER STAFF WRITER
Every year, nearly 100 Des Moines nonprofit groups rely o
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Neighborhood gardens nourish community
Arizona Daily Sun - 04/09/2005
Do you dream of growing vegetables, herbs and flowers but don't have a garden
of your own? There is a solution in Flagstaff's diverse collection of
community gardens. Community gardens offer individual plots of garden
I like both options, together, as the best way of doing the job.
For an urban community garden on this size plot - 60'x70', with volunteers
doing the lion's share of the work, a bobcat to get out as many of the small
weed trees/shrubs, followed up by "lasagne" ( to build up beds on top of
ex
Garden spaces offered in city
One back corner of cemetery has plots for growing crops each year
By DAVE LAVENDER - The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- If you see lots of people digging and tilling in Spring Hill
Cemetery, donbt call the police -- just come over and join them. On Monday,
new garden
Judy,
I like both options, together, as the best way of doing the job.
For an urban community garden on this size plot - 60'x70', with volunteers
doing the lion's share of the work, a bobcat to get out as many of the small
weed trees/shrubs, followed up by "lasagne" ( to build up beds on t
Moves afoot to establish community garden
Tuesday, 12 April 2005
http://stawell.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&;
category=general%20news&story_id=385168&y=2005&m=4
Several members of the Stawell and District Residents Association have formed
a sub-committee with the aim of
Many seniors test their gardening skills in community plots
Apr 12, 2005, 11:40 AM
Just over the wall on the northeast side of Grand Avenue near Litchfield Road,
opposite the hustle and bustle of the Surprise Towne Center, sits one of the
best kept secrets in Sun City West.
On a 7-acre site, tu
Friends,
Community Gardens Ain't Permanent Unless You're Mapped as a Garden, have a
good land use convenant, or Own the Land. This story is absolutely classic.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden
NY TimesApril 13, 2005
The Sanctuary vs. the Oasis
By MICHAEL BRICK
omewh
Friends,
This note from Aresh and the "More Gardens!" group, now mostly active in the
Bronx, gives an indication of some of the new work they've been doing since
the Melrose Garden consolidations.
"More Gardens!" is doing a school garden.
NYC has not been a great place for school gardens, t
The plot thickens at community gardens
Thursday, April 14, 2005Suzanne Hively
Plain Dealer Garden Editor
Catherine Murphy and Richard Falk decided last spring to grow their own
flowers for their late summer wedding.
So they rented a 20-by-20-foot plot in Kentucky Community Garden, across the
Cultivating community in garden
By Linda Pinkow
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Ah, spring at last.
Time to gather up the branches and leaves buried under an exceptionally
wintry winter.
While most Belmontians cultivate their own gardens, some civic-minded
residents have been working on the
Most of us at the Clinton Community Garden, with our 108 queen sized bed (6'
x9') raised bed, bio-energetic, "lasagne", plots, don't engage in crop
rotation. We DO engage in year round soil amending (nothing like mid-winter
weekly visits to the garden by people shovelling off the snow, and forki
Friends,
The Courtlandt Garden in the Melrose section of the Bronx, is getting into
full swing. After last year's destruction of several gardens, and merger of
plants and people in a few remaining sites, the people and plants are coming
together, albeit in fewer gardens, that, according to the Cou
Tue Apr 19 07:37:00 2005 Pacific Time
Organic Garden at Ursinus College Is Growing a Community
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earth Week is a
year-long commitment for Katherine Diana, an Ursinus College junior who has
been planning and planting the college's new o
Need a garden plot? --If you don't have your own piece of earth to garden in
-- or if the one you do have is too small or shady for vegetables -- you can
rent a plot at the community Garden of Eat'n in southeast Wichita. A
10-foot-by-20-foot plot rents for $20. Renters have to abide by the garde
Central Iowa gardeners may donate their extra plant sections to a Des Moines
program that matches divided plants with schools, neighborhood groups and
community organizations wanting to beautify their grounds.
This year's Great Perennial Divide will be May 14. Gardeners may drop off
their donation
Good point - Some community gardens have been reaching out to their local
schools in order to make educational partnerships. It requires that the
community
garden has insurance, garden members that can assist and open the facilities
when the classes arrive, enough diverse, and interesting plan
Deborah,
The problem with community gardens "started from the top," instead of "grown
from the rooots," comes down to the nexus of a volunteer organization having
the structural problem/habit of looking to "Dad," or "Mom," to provide
guidance, direction and material support. This isn't fatal,
Friends,
I really think this is the architypical, "Spring has sprung in our community
garden," article. Would that articles like this became cliches in our news
media, instead of, "He was a loner, and nobody would have predicted...", or
"Paris Hilton..", etc. etc.
The photo in this link is sweet
Friends,
I never look a gift horse in the, well Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Mary Tschinkel) directly as she is the source of this bounty.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden
From: M A TSCHINKEL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:06 AM
Date:Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:52:44 -0700
Thank you Adam for shedding light on this issue. I believe you said it
perfectly and I will take action on this.
I also want to thank everyone else with their words of support and wisdom.
Deborah
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Thank you Adam for shedding light on this issue. I believe you said it
perfectly and I will take action on this.
I also want to thank everyone else with their words of support and wisdom.
Deborah
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Friends,
This was part of a note to an Oklahoma Farmer's Co-op, talking about the
hunger that grips this country, specifically in Oklahoma. While much of this
missive speaks to local concerns, what he talks about resonates here in
Manhattan's concrete canyons as well. Business is too good at
In a message dated 4/26/05 12:49:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Thank you Adam for shedding lig
Any sign that's out there in the elements is going to get worn off. It's the
nature of things.
At the Clinton Community garden, we use metal commercially fabricated number
signs. But after 10 years or so, they get worn away, so we buy new ones.
That's why sign makers children don't starve.
Re plot applications: Here is a link to the Clinton Community Garden's website
- http://clintoncommunitygarden.org. Please click the
http://clintoncommunitygarden.org/rules_&_regulations.htm button and read.
We have applications for both our front and back gardens and require applicants
to r
> Subj: Re: [cg] advice please
> Date: 4/27/05 7:51:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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> Sent from the Internet
>
>
>
> Thanks all for the helpful advice once again. This list is great. A word to
> Adam, may I just say that the Eastern Canada in w
This is for cg newbies who don't know how to send out an all point bulletin
for strong backs, asap, to their garden crew.
This went out to all of our gardeners, volunteers and people with strong backs.
FYI - All of our coordinators, as the author of this note is, steering
committee membe
Asian Longhorned Beetle Discovered In Tree In Central Park
April 28, 2005
A pest with the potential to destroy the city's trees is once again spotted
in Central Park.
"Worst-case scenario, we could lose half of the trees in New York City," said
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe.
Park officials t
Friends,
As always, with any cooperative human endeavor, the best policy is to is
trust, but verify.
While I shared with you a particularly egregious example of garden chicanery,
and Mr. Mead from Seattle shared another distressing incident, I believe
that the general run of us could be tru
Ma'am,
Please go the ACGA website links page and click on the California links, for
starters. http://www.communitygarden.org/";>American Community
Gardening Association . Many of these sites have links pages as well,
that can give you alot of great information and opportunites for networking.
Ms. Kushner,
If the volunteer listserve doesn't write 'em, the volunteer digester can't
digest 'em! Now for a good amount of that time, a number of the literary
participants of the listserve were engaged in attending or volunteering their
time at the ACGA national convention in NYC. Travelling
Gee,
Have you gone through the archives at Green Guerillas? Also, the periodicals
section of the NY Public library should have the archives of local papers (
e.g., the East Village Other) as well. And while it is a few years back, it
is possible that Manhattan Community Board 1 has some Liz Ch
This is an update for interested ACGA listserve members:
Friends,
We in NYC are expecting many gardens to be bulldozed when Attorney General
Spitzer's community garden lawsuit against the City of New York is settled. Of
the 146-odd gardens in question, a goodly number will be demolished. The H
Mark,
1) While I agree that most of the garden protests have been largely non-violent
and free of nightstick excesses, many of NYC's most professional police
officers and supervisors (who are skilled at dealing with Civil Disobediance on
a large scale) are now taking retirement in large number
Sara,
There is a wonderful old Lenny Bruce routine called "Thank You Masked Man,"
in which the Lone Ranger has a problem hanging around to take the thank you's.
The old Radio and TV show had him riding into the sunset with Tonto without
being there to be "thanked."
In real life, I have disc
Hi Marilyn,
For more information on the American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)
and on the Chicago convention that just passed and future events, please go to
our website,http://www.communitygarden.org/";>American Community
Gardening Association . The organization, which has been i
Zach:
What an afternoon of turgid reading you have had! Sorry, buddy, but it's
only the tip of the iceberg as far as understanding how the agreement made
between NY State Attorney General and the City of New York works.
One of the great things about being an American Community Gardening
Ass
FYI
<< Subj: CYBERGARDENS: Rain or not, Chief Red Deer presentation is on,
Tuesday, August 5
Date: 8/5/03 12:15:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Project Harmony's " Parents, Friends &
Friends,
For those of us in the community garden movement who are actively involved in
fighting hunger in our communities, and find it harder and harder to explain
to the newbies, well meaning funders and legislators what the "big picture"
is, Trudy Lieberman's article in 'The Nation' ( 8/18 -
>From the ACGA links page: http://www.communitygarden.org/links/index.html#Children";>Gardening With
Children
Happy reading.
Adam Honigman
<< Subj: [cg] Kids Programs
Date: 8/5/03 11:45:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Judy Tiger has it right. Getting all of the shareholders and potential
shareholders in a room with a skillful facilitator (or an experienced "Mom" ) a
black board and a map of the area could help you get the "win-win" you want.
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
http://www.clintoncommunit
Friends,
Ms. Amanda Maria Edmonds, twenty- something ACGA board member and scholar,
put together this really comprehensive survey of Community Garden Research and
had it sent out to all current ( and two year lapsed) ACGA members by our
intrepid team in the ACGA office in Virgina. It was mai
Connie,
Boy are you ambitious - with FFA's ( Future Farmers of America) closing down
left and right ,you want to teach kids to be gardeners and businesspeople at
the same time.
You want to teach these poor innocent kids how they can have their hearts
broken as farmers, eh? Put these innocen
You are invited to
Plant for Life: Include Native Plants, Workshop with Mark Leger
Sunday, August 17, 2PMrain or shine
El Jardine del Paradiso
5th Street Garden Entrance, Between Avenue C & Avenue D, Manhattan
Reconnecting with native plants can draw us closer to the wonders of nature,
the
For the Archives
Posted on Fri, Jul. 12, 2002
Scourge of community gardens: Land sales
By Denise Cowie
Inquirer Columnist
One morning last month, Kathleen Garvin found herself in the middle of a
community gardener's nightmare: The garden she and others had lovingly tended
for
years on
The following OnlineAthens.com article has been sent to you by Adam Honigman
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Adam Honigman's comment: Here's a piece from last May on a community garden in
Athens, GA
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To re
Community garden restores hope to once-vibrant Athens neighborhood
Growing together
By Kimberly E. Mock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Pearson of Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful, left, and
neighborhood resident Bernice Jones prepare soil for a community garden in the
Brooklyn
neighborhood
Friend,
There have been farming programs in prisons for a very long time. It has
been said that the Prison Farm at Anglola Prison, in Louisiana is one of the
largest organic gardens in the country. However, rehabilitation is not central
to
the Angola Prison mission ( one of the nation's tou
Hey Pat,
The Winnepeg Free Press only lets folks get access to their web articles if
they are "7 day" subscribers. If you know of someone who is, maybe you could
persuade them, please, to forward the listserve a copy of that article on
Jeneva and her garden efforts.
Thanking you in advance,
Friends,
One of the nice things about this listserv, is that somewhere in our
community garden web community, if you happen to get hung up on statistics
during
grant writing time, there will be a fairy honest and knowledgeable person to
answer your query on-line.
Some of us are genuinely kn
Friends,
This missive from the MoreGardens! folks is interesting, because it shows how
gardeners are interacting with Bronx politicians, and sustainable housing
groups like Nos Quedamos in the Melrose Section of the Bronx in this post 2002
NYC Attorney General/NYC Community Gardening Settlemen
Friends,
John Herndon, of Oklahoma Food Bank and Community Garden fame, forwarded me
a link to the Vivisimo, clustering search engine.
It's a sweet toy, for as long as you can access it for free:
http://vivisimo.com/";>Vivisimo Clustering Search Engine
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Ms. Barriga,
For starters, you might want to contact the nice folks involved with the
Cornell University based Garden Mosaics community gardening educational
program:
http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/gardenmosaics/";>Garden Mosaics
In addition to Mr. Jim Call's sage advice, I would suggest you brow
Friends,
This is long, unedited and personal, and only partially about community
gardens, so don't feel you have to read it. I'm just sending it out for those
folks who want to know what one of the 50 million folks who experienced the
blackout felt about it.
This was actually the third NYC b
Rosie,
Hopefully you have an alderman who might take the brilliant example of
Chicago's Mayor Daley's roof gardens seriously (there's one on the roof of City
Hall!)
Here are some quick links:
The City of Chicago's guide to rooftop gardening with downloadable PDF: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Envi
Matt,
1) For all things relating to community gardening , you could do worse than
visiting the sponsor of this listserv, the American Community Gardening
Association's website at http://www.communitygarden.org/";>American
Community Gardening Association . A New Jersey community garden lins
Judy,
1) Were I you, the first thing I would do would be to talk to the best
commerical organic farmers/gardeners in your state and your local agricultural
exension agent. There are usually strict state guidelines on the use of gray
water
(or grey water) and they vary from state to state in t
Real quick:
Go the the ACGA website and read: http://www.communitygarden.org/";>
American Community Gardening Association
The 1996 ACGA survey is still pretty accurate
1) Off the top of my head, give or take from the mid nineties ACGA survey,
about 10,000. While cities like NYC have had a nu
In a message dated 8/20/03 1:29:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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unlike NYC.
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Actually, while the view that most of the world has of New York City is those
tall buildings and parks in Manhattan, in the oute
Fiona,
There is a wealth of information on the ACGA website for you to read on
myriad subjects. It's an awful lot of material, but should help you come up
with
many of the answers that you need. http://www.communitygarden.org/";>
American Community Gardening Association
Please feel free to
Shane:
1) As an ACGA board member, you should be familiar with the St. Louis
Whitmire Study out of Gwenne Hayes Stewart's Gateway Greening outfit and a
nearby
University: http://stlouis.missouri.org/gatewaygreening/WhitmireStudy.htm";>Whitmire
Study . The Whitmire is an amazingly useful co
Dear Mr. Bailey,
It might be useful in your decision making process to read through the
various articles and links on the American Community Gardening Association
website:
http://www.communitygarden.org/";>American Community Gardening
Association .
The sections on community garden start-u
Deborah,
Statistics are hard to come by, however these are some programs that you can
contact directly to inquire about stats, trade war stories, find wheels that
have been invented. Also, many Master Gardener Programs have youth
enterprise/youth at risk counciling programs. You may want to se
Stacey,
You may want to contact the Camden office of the Rutgers Agricultural
Extension as a way to tap into the institutional memories of their extension
agents
and master gardeners
http://www.co.camden.nj.us/government/offices/rutgers/";>Rutgers/Camden
Ext Office
This link to the City of C
Friends,
An amazing article in today's ( Friday, August 29, 2003) Wall Street Journal.
An excerpt below:
"Sold! to Save the Farm: Many Amish Make Ends Meet Selling Produce at
Auction; New Tactic to Keep Old Ways
By Elizabeth Weinstein
Rockville, Ind.
A SEA OF STRAW hats bobs up and down
Life Goes on in NYC: A Chinese Moon Festival on September 11, 2003
> Subj: CYBERPARK: Community Garden Celebrates Chinese Moon Festival
> Date: 8/29/03 4:15:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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The Leafy Green Road
To Good Mental Health
New Science Points to Benefits
Of Weeding, Watering Gardens
By MICHAEL WALDHOLZ
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Stuck in an emotional funk after a personal loss, Janice Mawhinney couldn't
muster the enthusiasm to tend her backyard garden in
Jim,
When you have lemons, it's best to make lemonaide. I lieu of a gate and
nightlock, that would save this garden...
Off the top of my head:
1) I'd call a few local churches, the kind that are interested in converting
drunken sinners and tell them that there are more than a few likely candi
Young gardeners harvest veggies for poor
Teens get down, dirty to help food pantries
By Pat Schneider
August 20, 2004
The teenagers pulled up onions, sliced off broccoli heads, shuffled through
vines for spiny cukes.
Box after box slowly was filled: fresh vegetables bound for the tables of
l
Sounds like the ACGA board might want to give this mayor some factual
ammunition on the real dollars and cents contributions of community gardens
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
By Pat Schneider
August 22, 2004
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is vowing that the city's community gardening program
will be
By Christine Iwan
The Enquirer
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--
For three master gardeners, 21 S. Wabash St. is more than just a vacant lot.
They see about 30 garden plots, each 4 feet by 8 feet, with mulched pathways
between them. They see v
Thanks for the kudos, Ms. Wenger, but I was just the tour guide: the real
heroes have been the Hell's Kitchen community, and our garden volunteers -
hundreds of folks, living and dead, who over the last 26 years have made the
CCG
work. And our over 5,000 keyholders, who with their friends
One of the great things about the Whitmire Community Gardening and Greening
Study being done under the aegis of Gateway Greening in St. Louis, (
WhitmireStudy.html ) is that these self-help efforts stabilize poor
neighborhoods.
And in my experience, organized groups of tenants/renters who work
Posted on Wed, Aug. 25, 2004
He tends an oasis in West Philly
HAYWARD FORD
Age: 63
Lives: Wynnewood
Family: Father of four children, Kenneth, Rosalind, Terrence and Andre.
Making Philadelphia beautiful: Twenty-five-year volunteer at Aspen Farms, a
community garden at 49th and Aspen
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Garden an oasis of free veggies
BY JONI CARRASCO
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
There's no Robin Hood in Corona's Sherwood Forest, but there is the giving
spirit of Robin Hood in its creator, Kenrick (Trini) Lewis.
A modest garden
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> Who owns the land the garden is on? Is it part of parks department?
> Congratuations on such a sizable WIN!
The land belongs to the NYC Parks Dept. Congratulations have to go to the Liz
Christy Gardeners,
Friends,
I know everything about the vegetable soup in my freezer - I grew all of the
spices, the pole beans carrots and peppers in it, swapped tomatoes last
season with my neighbor who grew the garlic, and shook hands with the farmer
from upstate who brought the potatoes and parsnips into tow
Friends,
We owe Jim Call, Laura Berman and everyone who ever worked on the ACGA
website a big hand of thanks. For a two decade old national organization
without a national headquarters, we sure as heck have a great website.
If you haven't sent in that annual appeal check - please send it in.
I looked at the City Year website and found it to be awfully impressive,
(i.e., young, idealistic folks giving a year of their lives in a program
similar to Vista, but organized as freestanding, non-for profit like Habitat
for Humanity serving urban communities). A great program. America is b
For starters, it's December 7th, Pearl Harbor day, lest we forget. Had an
senior gent who liked to sit iof the grape arbor in our garden who had been a
young sailor at Pearl, then. He passed away a few years ago. Thinking of
him and the day...
Jennifer Phillips, one of the smartest people w
RE: Can anyone recommend a variety or two of tomato that
will do well in a 'greenhouse'. I'm desparately
trying to have tomatoes 'year-round here in southern
California where we get maybe a couple of frosts on
average per year (we all know what store-bought
tomatoes taste like!!). Do they need s
Madam,
Without sounding new-agey, I find that the lessons that I learn from
gardening and gardening with other people as a community gardener,
enlightening. Part of the joy and challenge of gardening is that nature
intervenes in interesting ways with all of our plans.
Practically, I would co
Friends,
Just checked my mail on the way back from depositing the last few days'
veggie scrapings into the Clinton Community Garden's compost (a large black
"Gar -BAHGE" bag as comedian Jonathan Winters used to say). The snow from
our White Christmas covers the lawn and the back garden vegetab
Jim,
Like many of us, my belly has just stopped aching from all I stuffed into it
over the Thanksgiving weekend gorge. Back to my long walks and yoghurt!
However, for an increasing group of Americans, hunger remains a daily
companion.
This was a weekend off for me from my local soup kitchen
Jean,
Master gardeners are a mixed bag, for sure - and am quite partial to
uppermiddle class folks (of any hue) who can stand a bunch of volunteers to an
adult
beverage after a day of do-gooding!
The idea, and this is central, is to get more master gardeners to be engaged
in food producing a
Friends,
This from Monica Cox, Master Gardener and Compost Specialist, Lane County,
Oregon. Looks like the quality and committment of Master Gardeners to community
is like politics in the good old USof A - LOCAL.
So, I guess it's something we all have to work on locally - get all of those
nic
Jan,
Thanks for coming out of the woodwork!! I have a job for you - This is the
ACGA's web page for community gardens and programs. http://www.communitygarden.org/links/index.html#Gardens";>Garden Links
Alas, I
have only been able to find a separate NJ link for the Denville Community
Ga
>From cg brother, Jon Crow of Brooklyn, NY and the Brooklyn Bears garden:
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In today's Times!
Marci,
We garden south of you in NYC's Clinton Community Garden (web link: Clinton
Community Garden ) and the idea of a gardening coordinating group like yours
coming in and tilling garden plots that should have been lovingly composted and
amended by the community gardeners themselves seems q
Friends,
This from Hope Norman Coulter, director of the Little Rock based Arkansas
Hunger Coalition and longtime friend and ally of community gardens in her city,
state and throughout the USA.
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden
> Subj: grants available for school foodservi
NY Times.
December 31, 2003
In Sutton Place's Backyard, Private Oasis on Public Land
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
his is the story of the garden at 1 Sutton Place South, a verdant jewel atop
Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive that serves as the lush backyard for one of the
city's most exclusive addresses
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> Date: 12/2/04 12:18:29 AM Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
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Re Historic Preservation and Community Gardens.
Many community gardeners have gone into garbage strewn lots and while
cleaning them out have found neat things, like burnt marble columns, cast iron
ballustrades from stoops and even odd little pieces of decorative sculpture
from
the long gone
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