The Schreber gardens in germany are a good example of what community
gardens can be. They can be a lot of things, we know. The urban
agriculture thing is worthwhile. But the problem is that they are not
accessable to urban communities. We use our garden for lots of other
things than growing food. We had a drum festival and raindance and art
installations and lots of things. We grow lots of flowers too. So
google Schreber, I'm sure you'll like it. Karen
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:59:16 -0800 (PST)
From: "Duluth Community Garden Prog." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Community_garden] Mission statements
To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
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Dear Gardeners,
Our organization will soon start an organizational assessment and
strategic planning process. That process will include a close look at
our
mission statement. We operate on an allotment system, assigning
gardeners
to 210 plots located in 18 sites around the city. To help us review
ours,
we'd like to see mission statements for similar programs. Please send
them to me at duluthcommgarden at yahoo.com.
Thanks very much.
Mary Dragich
Executive Director
Duluth Community Garden Program
206 W 4th St
Duluth, MN 55806
218-722-4583
www.duluthcommunitygarden.org
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:49:06 -0600
From: "Janet Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Community_garden] plot fees - did you get the overview
document?
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
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Hello again ACGA friends,
I sent out the info about garden plot fees around the US and Canada to
the 37 people who responded that they wanted it. Some email programs
think that I am a spammer though (especially when I send attachments).
So if you did not get the info from me, please check your bulk folder
or
drop me another line and I can resend it from another email account.
Happy December!
Peace,
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
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:47:08 -0500
From: "Cynthia Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Community_garden] Fwd: Community garden international
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This is something that came over the Comfoods list-serve that I said I
would forward to this list. (Sorry to those of you who saw it
already.) I'm very interested to hear the answers myself, so please
try to include me if you decide to respond directly to Steven Garrett
-- any responses that come to this whole list I can forward to him.
Thank you,
Cynthia Price
Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council
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From: Steven Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:23:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [COMFOOD:] Community garden question
To: Community Food Security Coalition <comfood at elist.tufts.edu>
Hi all,
In 1999 I spoke at a conference in Nottingham, UK on community
gardens. Perhaps others on the list also have attended. While the
conference was billed as "The First International Community Gardening
Conference," it became clear the specific form of urban agriculture
that we in North America come to recognize as community gardens, did
not seem to exist elsewhere. The other forms that were prevalent
included allotment gardens, home gardens, market gardens, etc.
They invited us Yanks because they were especially keen (as they would
say) to instigate community gardens because Europeans were abandoning
the larger allotments and because inner city poverty was increasing
and many allotments were on the city fringes.
My question is whether the form of urban ag that we call community
gardens with its relatively small plots, usual inner city locations,
fair amount of turnover, open design (versus fenced plots), etc,
exists in other countries besides Canada and the US. My understanding
is that Havana might be another place where this form exists.
Cheers,
Steven
Steven Garrett, MS, MA, RD
Ph.D. student, Geography
University of Washington
817 North Sheridan
Tacoma, WA 98403
Phone: 253-272-0775
sgarrett at u.washington.edu
geografood at yahoo.com
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:29:09 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Fwd: Community garden international
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Community gardens on the "North American," model have been developed
in most European Countries - in Paris of all places. Here is a
community garden in London that's twinned with the Clinton Community
Garden in NYC. http://www.culpeper.org.uk/
And of course there is the limey version of the Green Guerillas.
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ . If you scroll down on this site,
you can see super annuated community gardeners like me #276 Adam
Honigman and #277 Don Loggins, who were guerilla gardeners back in "the
day,"
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
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Subject: [Community_garden] Fwd: Community garden international
question
This is something that came over the Comfoods list-serve that I said I
would forward to this list. (Sorry to those of you who saw it
already.) I'm very interested to hear the answers myself, so please
try to include me if you decide to respond directly to Steven Garrett
-- any responses that come to this whole list I can forward to him.
Thank you,
Cynthia Price
Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council
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From: Steven Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:23:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [COMFOOD:] Community garden question
To: Community Food Security Coalition <comfood at elist.tufts.edu>
Hi all,
In 1999 I spoke at a conference in Nottingham, UK on community
gardens. Perhaps others on the list also have attended. While the
conference was billed as "The First International Community Gardening
Conference," it became clear the specific form of urban agriculture
that we in North America come to recognize as community gardens, did
not seem to exist elsewhere. The other forms that were prevalent
included allotment gardens, home gardens, market gardens, etc.
They invited us Yanks because they were especially keen (as they would
say) to instigate community gardens because Europeans were abandoning
the larger allotments and because inner city poverty was increasing
and many allotments were on the city fringes.
My question is whether the form of urban ag that we call community
gardens with its relatively small plots, usual inner city locations,
fair amount of turnover, open design (versus fenced plots), etc,
exists in other countries besides Canada and the US. My understanding
is that Havana might be another place where this form exists.
Cheers,
Steven
Steven Garrett, MS, MA, RD
Ph.D. student, Geography
University of Washington
817 North Sheridan
Tacoma, WA 98403
Phone: 253-272-0775
sgarrett at u.washington.edu
geografood at yahoo.com
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:27:48 -0500
From: "Sharon Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Community_garden] Forms of Community Gardens
To: <comfood at elist.tufts.edu>, "Community GardenNational"
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*Small Plots
Often 10x10 feet or up to 25x30 feet
May have removable fencing on individual plots
People can usually keep their same plot from year to year
Usually no permanent structures on site
Usually have shared water piped in unless on a vacant plot on a
residential
street in which case a kind neighbor may allow use of water.
Site may be temporary or permanent
May have raised beds for people with disabilities
Some gardeners are long term and others 1-3 years
Often on city land, parks land, university land, vacant lots in
residential
area
Occasionally has group shelters and rest rooms
Most food for personal family use
People can usually plant any legal annual plant or perennial, and
often
shrubs, and occasionally shorter trees
Some with optional food donations
Common in US, Canada, Cuba, some refugee camps, and many other places.
Smaller plots becoming available in the US too.
Many make use of biointensive (see How to Grow More Vegetables...7th
edition
by Jeavons) or Square Foot Gardening (see all three books by
Bartholomew)
techniques to get the most from small spaces
http://www.cityfarmer.org/
http://www.communitygarden.org/
Rose Miller is collecting info on plot sizes RoseMeadow2 at lycos.com .
*Small plot in a shared greenhouse
http://www.cityfarmer.org/inuvik.html
Other gardens also share green house space with people being able to
keep X
number of planting starting flats in the greenhouse
*Allotments
Standard size is 10 rod/pole which is often 30 feet by 90.75 feet
See sample plan booklet here
http://www.earthlypursuits.com/AllotGuide/DigforVictory1/DigForVictory1_1.htm
Often fenced
Often has a small shed and/or green house at one end
Shed culture is valued
In Germany families may camp out at the garden on weekends
Usually has shared water piped in
Site is usually permanent
In Germany may be on railway right of way
Often has a store that is open a few hours a week
Group shelters more common than in the US
Often has restrooms
Gardeners are usually long term
Most food for personal family use
People can usually plant any legal annual plant or perennial, and
often
shrubs, and shorter trees
Some sections (especially people with north edge plots in the northern
hemisphere may be albe to plant trees that grow quite tall
Many sites allow the keeping of small to medium animals
Gardens likely to participate in open garden tour days, have garden
contests
and produce contests
Site may be surrounded by a multipurpose hedgerow
Plots are large enough for good permaculture designs
Common in UK, Germany
*Home garden with cabin
Families have a garden with a cabin in the country and garden on
weekends
and in the summer. Older family members without another job may be
there
more continuously.
These seem to be clustered in the country outside of cities
Lots of food grown and preserved for winter use in addition to what is
eaten
in season
Common in Russian areas
In Africa. Indonesia, China and other countries, there is often sort of
the
reverse of this with the wive(s) and children living at the home garden
with
those houses as the main place of residence and the Father and/or an
older
boy/girl working in the city much of the year to earn income
*Community Mini-Farms
Farmed as group with food going to the group, to market, to CSA, or to
charity
Most labor from volunteers with 1 or a few paid staff/organiziers
May be used as a educational demonstration garden or part of a whole
life
curriculum
May be used for therapy
Gardens like this are found as School gardens, agricultural program
gardens,
hospital gardens, prison gardens, soup kitchen gardens, gardens for
the
homeless, refugee camps, historic demonstation gardens/farms
More gardens of this type are likely to be created since Slow Food has
called for all Slow Food groups to partner with a school garden.
*Business Mini-farms or Farms
Farmed as a family or group or owner-helper business structure with
food
being used to earn income
May be run as business, collective, or under command of the government
Food goes to family, CSA, farmer's market, farm stand, restaurants, or
to
other designated businesses
May have some volunteer interns/apprentices or WWOOFers or people who
work
to reduce the cost of their share or get a free share
Common in every country
*Any or all of the above
http://www.ruaf.org/
Sharon
gordonse at one.net
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