Please send me a copy, so I can show the gardeners at NYC's Clinton Community Garden what they don't have to pay. As we are a NYC Parks Greenthumb garden ( and get our water gratis from NYC as a NYC Parks facility) and are also a 501(c)(3), (we were set up as such with the help of the Trust for Public Land back in the early '80's) we've been able to get by on voluntary contributions from gardeners, foundation grants, sales of t-shirts, coffee mugs, baseball hats, and assorted "tschotchkes," at the Annual 9th Avenue Food Festival, and our annual sale of honey from our beehive. The problem I've seen with plot fees as I've seen it play out in NYC gardens, is that plot fees seem to give the gardener the feeling that work on common areas, like paths, etc, is not a mandatory responsibility for them. The plots in these gardens will be nice, depending on what the gardener's do, but the common areas turn into the work of a few gardeners who care - an unfair situation. My two cents. NYC is not the rest of the country, and perhaps fee paying gardeners elsewhere have less of a sense of entitlement and are more public spirited. Best regards, Adam Honigman Hell's Kitchen, NYC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org Sent: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:41 AM Subject: [Community_garden] Want to see a plot fees overview for U.S.?
Dear Friends at ACGA, Thank you to everyone who responded to my note a while back asking for details on plot fees in your city. I put the responses together in a chart that shows plot fees around the country. If you'd like a copy, drop me a note and I'll send it to you as a Word document. Or maybe you didn't respond and have time to now as the weather gets colder! If so, please drop me a note with this info: Where do you garden? How much do gardeners pay in plot fees? Is there a low-income subsidy or sliding scale? Do you charge pay deposit or other fees? How large are your plots? Many thanks, Janet Parker Community Gardens - CAC Food & Gardens 1717 N. Stoughton Road Madison, WI 53704 janetp at cacscw.org 608-246-4730 ext. 218 www.cacscw.org/gardens -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20061130/4734b46c/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: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20061130/d44fabe7/attachment.html
