We formed a Horticultural Society and became members of the Provincial
Horticultural Association. They have group liablity insurance for member
groups. Very inexpensive. Karen
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but fewer allotments (adam36055 at aol.com)
3. Fwd: [NYC-GardensCoalition] There Will Aways Be an England -
but fewer allotments (adam36055 at aol.com)
4. Community garden insurance (Yvette Alger)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:09:15 -0500
From: "Kirby, Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Community_garden] FW: [tb-cybergardens]: FW: Wollemi
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
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For those interested in rare and endangered plants, come to visit
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (NYC) . See story below. There's more
on
our website www.bbg.org
Ellen Kirby
BBG's Wolemmi Pine is generating international news coverage - below
is
the Associated Press news item that ran on the national news wire too
so
it will be picked up by most local newspapers.
It has already run in the Hobart Mercury, (Australia) newspaper, a
newspaper in Malaysia, and Lois heard the news about BBG and the
Wollemi
pine on WNYC FM on Sunday morning at 8:19 a.m.
And Courier Life ran a photo and feature:
http://www.kingscourier.net/site/tab2.cfm?newsid=17766522&BRD=2384&PAG=4
61&dept_id=552848&rfi=6
We are working on news features with NY Daily News and the NY Times,
which will run on Thursday, 2/1.
Associated Press Worldstream
January 27, 2007 Saturday 11:11 PM GMT
Holy botany! Rare tree comes to Brooklyn Botanic Garden
SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
LENGTH: 181 words
DATELINE: NEW YORK
Holy botany!The Brooklyn Botanic Garden says visitors can now observe
the extremely rare Wollemi pine, frequently referred to as a major
botanical find of the last century. Thought to be extinct for 2
million
years, a small grove of Wollemi pine was found in Australia in 1994.
The
species managed to survive through 17 ice ages, leading scientists to
try to solve the secrets of its resiliency.Fewer than 100 of the trees
exist in the wild, so a plant-propagation and commercialization
initiative was launched to preserve them in their native habitat.A
limited number of trees from that effort are being offered for sale at
the Brooklyn garden. The royalties will go toward conservation
efforts.The Wollemi pine belongs to the ancient coniferous family
Araucariaceae, whose fossil record dates back over 200 million years
to
the time of the dinosaurs, the BBG said."The discovery of a plant long
thought to be extinct and only known through fossils is an exciting
and
remarkable story that fires the imagination," Scot Medbury, president
of
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, said in a statement.
Leeann Lavin
Director of Communications
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
718-623-7289
leeannlavin at bbg.org
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:44:34 -0500
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Subject: [Community_garden] Fwd: [NYC-GardensCoalition] There Will
Aways Be an England - but fewer allotments
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Sent: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: [NYC-GardensCoalition] There Will Aways Be an England - but
fewer allotments
Engangered London Gardens, Please Help if you can.
Adam Honigman
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To: adam36055 at aol.com
Sent: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: London Community Gardeners endangered by London Olympic
Constructions
Hi Adam
It's a growing story this one. I was at a birthday on Friday with one
of the allotment gardens in the Newham plot who said their patch is also
threatened. I'd been there earlier in the summer helping restore what
had become very over grown gardens (very unusual in London given the
huge demand). There's a new wave of younger keen allotment gardeners
and it has been a devastating blow to them that they might have to be
moved.
I've posted your story on the London Community board of the website.
Today I also received a note from Jenny (123) who pointed out a
petition on the Downing Street website for the government to set aside
more land for allotments. It's something only British Citizens
(including the Pitcairn Islands) can sign, but if you know any British
passport holders do pass on the link!
http://guerrillagardening.org/community/index.php?topic=278.0
Richard
On 27 Jan 2007, at 03:45, adam36055 at aol.com wrote:
Friends,
Allotment gardeners, are community gardeners, are "guerilla gardeners,"
despite the class and age differences that some of these titles imply.
"They," are "us," and vice versa. Let's see what we can do to support
these English folks in danger of losing their gardens/
All the best,
Adam Honigman
American Community, "Guerilla," and Allotment gardener from NYC.
Guardian (series)
Wanstead and Woodford, UK
24th January 2007
www.wansteadandwoodfordguardian.co.uk/display.var.1144131.0.gardeners_come_out_blazing.php
By Carl Brown
Gardeners come out blazing
ALLOTMENT holders angry at being turfed off their
plots to make way for the 2012 Olympic Games held an
evening of protests.
More than 80 plots, at Manor Gardens, off Waterden
Road, in Stratford, will be bulldozed to make way for
a concrete walkway and a big screen.
The controversial plan is to relocate them at the
Marsh Lane fields in Leyton.
Many of the gardeners have had their plots for decades
and many of these have been handed down from their
parents.
Last week more than 100 people attended a New Year
feast and bonfire at the allotments to bring attention
to the gardeners' plight.
The Manor Gardening Society acting secretary Julie
Sumner said: "We have got a fantastic resource here
and if we can get more than 100 people out on a cold
Tuesday night, then it shows how many people want to
keep the allotments.
"Allotments are something people all over the world
recognise and they are also a genuine British
institution."
The Manor Gardening Society believes that keeping the
allotments on the Olympic site will also benefit the
Games themselves.
It is currently developing a plan, along with Tak
Hoshino from the University of East London, to retain
the allotments in the Olympic park.
Ms Sumner said: "This diverse community of Turks,
Cypriots, Greeks, Jamaicans, Africans and Brits
welcomes the potential for regeneration brought by the
Olympic development.
"Rather than being moved out of the way, they want to
offer their contribution which seems to be entirely
consistent with the Olympic and Government ambitions."
Albert Dickinson, 79, has gardened his plot at Manor
Gardens for more than 40 years.
He said: "There is a community spirit down here, we
all make an effort. If someone is on holiday we will
help them with the plot.
"And we are being forced to give all this up just for
a fortnight's Olympic Games."
The Manor Gardening Society is now intending to get an
ecological survey carried out on the site to assess
the environmental effects of moving the allotments.
The London Development Agency (LDA) has submitted a
planning application to the council to move the
allotment holders to a site south of Marsh Lane
temporarily.
But this has caused controversy among campaigners,
including the New Lammas Land Defence Committee, who
believe the Marsh Lane site is protected, a claim the
LDA disputes.
An LDA spokesman said that the allotments cannot be
retained at the Waterden Road site because the land
will have to be lowered by six metres as part of the
Olympic building work.
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Subject: [Community_garden] Fwd: [NYC-GardensCoalition] There Will
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: [NYC-GardensCoalition] There Will Aways Be an England - but
fewer allotments
Engangered London Gardens, Please Help if you can.
Adam Honigman
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: adam36055 at aol.com
Sent: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: London Community Gardeners endangered by London Olympic
Constructions
Hi Adam
It's a growing story this one. I was at a birthday on Friday with one
of the allotment gardens in the Newham plot who said their patch is also
threatened. I'd been there earlier in the summer helping restore what
had become very over grown gardens (very unusual in London given the
huge demand). There's a new wave of younger keen allotment gardeners
and it has been a devastating blow to them that they might have to be
moved.
I've posted your story on the London Community board of the website.
Today I also received a note from Jenny (123) who pointed out a
petition on the Downing Street website for the government to set aside
more land for allotments. It's something only British Citizens
(including the Pitcairn Islands) can sign, but if you know any British
passport holders do pass on the link!
http://guerrillagardening.org/community/index.php?topic=278.0
Richard
On 27 Jan 2007, at 03:45, adam36055 at aol.com wrote:
Friends,
Allotment gardeners, are community gardeners, are "guerilla gardeners,"
despite the class and age differences that some of these titles imply.
"They," are "us," and vice versa. Let's see what we can do to support
these English folks in danger of losing their gardens/
All the best,
Adam Honigman
American Community, "Guerilla," and Allotment gardener from NYC.
Guardian (series)
Wanstead and Woodford, UK
24th January 2007
www.wansteadandwoodfordguardian.co.uk/display.var.1144131.0.gardeners_come_out_blazing.php
By Carl Brown
Gardeners come out blazing
ALLOTMENT holders angry at being turfed off their
plots to make way for the 2012 Olympic Games held an
evening of protests.
More than 80 plots, at Manor Gardens, off Waterden
Road, in Stratford, will be bulldozed to make way for
a concrete walkway and a big screen.
The controversial plan is to relocate them at the
Marsh Lane fields in Leyton.
Many of the gardeners have had their plots for decades
and many of these have been handed down from their
parents.
Last week more than 100 people attended a New Year
feast and bonfire at the allotments to bring attention
to the gardeners' plight.
The Manor Gardening Society acting secretary Julie
Sumner said: "We have got a fantastic resource here
and if we can get more than 100 people out on a cold
Tuesday night, then it shows how many people want to
keep the allotments.
"Allotments are something people all over the world
recognise and they are also a genuine British
institution."
The Manor Gardening Society believes that keeping the
allotments on the Olympic site will also benefit the
Games themselves.
It is currently developing a plan, along with Tak
Hoshino from the University of East London, to retain
the allotments in the Olympic park.
Ms Sumner said: "This diverse community of Turks,
Cypriots, Greeks, Jamaicans, Africans and Brits
welcomes the potential for regeneration brought by the
Olympic development.
"Rather than being moved out of the way, they want to
offer their contribution which seems to be entirely
consistent with the Olympic and Government ambitions."
Albert Dickinson, 79, has gardened his plot at Manor
Gardens for more than 40 years.
He said: "There is a community spirit down here, we
all make an effort. If someone is on holiday we will
help them with the plot.
"And we are being forced to give all this up just for
a fortnight's Olympic Games."
The Manor Gardening Society is now intending to get an
ecological survey carried out on the site to assess
the environmental effects of moving the allotments.
The London Development Agency (LDA) has submitted a
planning application to the council to move the
allotment holders to a site south of Marsh Lane
temporarily.
But this has caused controversy among campaigners,
including the New Lammas Land Defence Committee, who
believe the Marsh Lane site is protected, a claim the
LDA disputes.
An LDA spokesman said that the allotments cannot be
retained at the Waterden Road site because the land
will have to be lowered by six metres as part of the
Olympic building work.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:31 -0500
From: "Yvette Alger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Community_garden] Community garden insurance
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Hi all,
I've been a long-time reader of these emails, but am just now writing
in. I belong to the local Native Plant Society chapter and we've just
been offered a small lot for use as a native plant demonstration garden.
We'd like to involve our chapter volunteers and also the neighbors in
improving and maintaining the site, but there are concerns over the need
for insurance. With so many community gardens out there though, I know
there must be a feasible affordable solution to the insurance question.
I'd greatly appreciate any info you can offer.
Thank you,
Yvette
Yvette Alger, St. Lucie County Native Plant Society
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