Here's the link to the Fenway Garden in Boston. They say they're the oldest. http://www.fenwayvictorygardens.com/
Rachel On 3/5/07, community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org <community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org> wrote: > Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to > community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > community_garden-owner at list.communitygarden.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Benefits of community gardens - ecological function > (Georgia Silvera) > 2. Re: Benefits of community gardens (adam36055 at aol.com) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Georgia Silvera <gsilvera at berkeley.edu> > To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:47:48 -0800 > Subject: [Community_garden] Benefits of community gardens - ecological > function > I have been following the > > Benefits of community gardens (Cynthia Price) > > thread with much interest, particularly the on-site, local ecological > function benefits Cynthia - > > --provides the carbon dioxide fixation effects of plant growth; > --diminishes the "heat island" effect in urban areas; > --may capture and reuse stormwater runoff; > > Cynthia, please let us know the results of your efforts. > Georgia Silvera > > > > > community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org wrote: > > Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to > > community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > > > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > > > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > community_garden-request at list.communitygarden.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > community_garden-owner at list.communitygarden.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. More on Manor Garden Allotments and Olympic situation > > (Sharon Gordon) > > 2. Re: Benefits of community gardens (Cynthia Price) > > 3. on cg benefits (lynng30) > > 4. Re: victory gardens (Lexie Stoia) > > 5. Re: victory gardens (Libby J. Goldstein) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:05:41 -0500 > > From: "Sharon Gordon" <gordonse at one.net> > > Subject: [Community_garden] More on Manor Garden Allotments and > > Olympic situation > > To: "Community GardenNational" > > <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> > > Message-ID: <002001c75e87$b8daee60$6401a8c0 at hsd1.md.comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > From: Trish Shuker trish at shuker.co.uk > > > > Dear All > > > > There was a large turn out of people re Manor Garden Allotments this morning > > - > > http://www.lifeisland.org/ > > > > Also, a double page article in Saturday's Daily Mail. > > > > There is a meeting this Wednesday in Tottenham - people can also email > > questions to > > peoplesquestions at london.gov.uk > > > > GLA "People's Question Time" Wednesday 7 March 2007 18:30 > > > > Opportunity to quiz Ken Livingstone or Assembly members on why the > > allotments are to be sacrificed to some hastily planned, futuristic > > landscaping. Why 'regeneration' seems to mean 'destruction'. Why locally > > produced food and healthy local communities count for nothing in the face of > > glamorous big development projects like the Olympics. Whatever is important > > to you. > > Submit a question to show your concern via online form or email > > peoplesquestions at london.gov.uk > > > > Come along and support us if you can. > > > > Tickets & info > > > > Wednesday 7 March 2007 > > The Freedom Hall > > Tottenham Green Leisure Centre > > Philip Lane > > Tottenham > > London N15 4JA > > Time: 7pm to 9pm > > > > Trish > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:40:25 -0500 > > From: "Cynthia Price" <skyprice at gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Benefits of community gardens > > To: adam36055 at aol.com > > Cc: NYC-GardensCoalition at yahoogroups.com, > > community_garden at list.communitygarden.org, > > richard at guerrillagardening.org > > Message-ID: > > <cc1e54b90703050640w78d7838eoe817f925c929881 at mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > I really appreciate all the time people have taken to point me in the > > direction of further studies and to add items to the list. This list > > is intended to serve as a partial basis for a much shorter bulleted > > talking points paper to be presented to Congress (not local officials) > > for revisions in the Farm Bill. There was no intentionality in the > > order as I sent them out, since I will be boiling these points down > > greatly to make them and other information fit on one page. In > > addition, other people from the Community Food Security Coalition's > > Urban Ag Committee are helping to contribute to the paper, so I'll > > have a lot of reading and condensing to do. A first draft has to be > > written as of today. > > > > I mainly just put it out there to see if there were items omitted (or > > substantial disagreement, which there doesn't appear to be), and I > > intend to incorporate the omitted items which people sent me both on > > and off list. I also do appreciate people' suggestions on what are the > > more telling points (reflected in what they suggested as the > > "lead-offs" and "end points"). > > > > So again, thank you all, and please feel free to contact me with other > > points as well which may be incorporated in later drafts. (It has to > > be complete before March 16 since Lobby Day is March 19 and there's > > the Farm to School conference in between.) > > > > Cynthia Price > > Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council > > > > On 3/3/07, adam36055 at aol.com <adam36055 at aol.com> wrote: > > > >> Some friendly suggestions and amendments: > >> > >> The first place you need to start, Cynthia, when creating a list of this > >> sort, for the eyes of elected officials, governmental managers, the press, > >> corporate and foundation funders is how "our thing," namely community > >> gardening, best serves the municipalities and communites in which they are > >> sited. > >> > >> It's the old negotiation mindset - you have to think, "what's in it for > >> you," before you think, "what's in it for me." > >> > >> You know, perfectly well what you want, but you have to know where you can > >> cast your nets, with your list of "benefits of community gardens," to catch > >> the most fish. > >> > >> The main reason why the ACGA and this listserv is valuable to our > >> coummunity of gardeners is that it helps us to think "beyond our garden > >> gates," to keep us from wasting valuable non-gardening and "people > >> organizing," time on "recreating wheels." With all due respect, there are > >> some extraodinarily good wheels available on the ACGA website that you can > >> attach to your wagon. > >> > >> 1) Please start with David Malakoff's great article, "What Good is > >> Community Greening? Research Supports All Those Common Sense Answers You've > >> Been Using for Years - But There is Still More to Learn: > >> (http://www.communitygarden.org/whatgood.php). And then think of how you > >> would best edit your list, and "pitch," thinking about "what's in it for > >> you/what's in it for me?). > >> > >> 2) Currently, Gateway Greening's "Whitmire Study," > >> (http://www.gatewaygreening.org/WhitmireStudy.asp ) > >> is the first, and best study we have of community garden "quantifiables." > >> ACGA Board member, and St. Louis Gateway Greening Director, Ms. Gwenne > >> Hayes-Stewart has been the guiding force behind the creation of this > >> invaluable and rigorous study of the effects of community gardens on their > >> surrounding communities and it would be extremely useful for you, Cynthia, > >> to reach out to Ms. Hayes-Stewart after you have read whatever you can find > >> on-line about the study. > >> > >> Then you should re-edit your list, again.... > >> > >> > >> My thoughts: > >> > >> While, I believe that while the food harvested in our urban community > >> gardens is both useful and helpful in augmenting the diets of some urgan > >> gardeners, their families and a few local food pantires, it is not of > >> significant quantity at present to have made a substantial enough > >> contribution in our national fight against hunger to be "lead-off" on your > >> list. > >> > >> In future years, especially when transportation of fresh foods with fossil > >> fueled tractor trailers becomes prohibitive for agricultural corporations, > >> urban agriculure, and our gardens will become a more important "lead off." > >> > >> Now, I think, that: > >> 1) stabilizing communities through community gardening, > >> > >> 2)the promotion of block safety through community gardening, > >> > >> 3) the recruitment of urban greening and park volunteers and leaders > >> through community gardening > >> > >> 4) community education in healthy eating, diet, education, and the life > >> sciences (i.e., food grows and you can grow it in this garden), and > >> > >> 5) the creation and nuturing of healthy, self-sustaining, urban greening > >> communities through community gardening, with minimal a minimal outlay of > >> public and private funding > >> > >> are better "lead offs". > >> > >> > >> And, with the use of the quantifiables listed in the studies above, would > >> be more use in explaining to elected officials, governmental managers, the > >> media, corprorate and foundation funders, how "our thing," namely community > >> gardening, best serves the municipalities and communities in which they are > >> sited. > >> > >> And using the "what's in it for you/what's in it for me," strategy getting > >> the seed money, water, and zoning our gardens need to serve our > >> communities. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> Adam Honigman > >> Hell's Kitchen, NYC > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: skyprice at gmail.com > >> To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > >> Sent: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 6:06 PM > >> Subject: [Community_garden] Benefits of community gardens > >> > >> On behalf of the Urban Ag Committee of the Community Food Security > >> Coalition (which many ACGA folks like Betsy Johnson, James Kuhns and > >> Rodger Cooley serve on), I would like to ask people to please comment > >> on this list of CG benefits. Greater GR Food Systems Council developed > >> it over the years for a variety of purposes, but obviously there are > >> things that could be added. I'm also wondering if people think there > >> are items that are wrong or should be stated differently. > >> > >> Please feel free to reply just to me if you'd like. Also, sorry for > >> duplicate postings. > >> > >> Thanks for looking at this! > >> > >> Cynthia Price > >> Chair, Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council > >> > >> Benefits of community gardening: > >> --fresh fruits and vegetables taste better, making healthy eating easier; > >> --there is more nutritional value in food that has not come a long > >> distance causing nutrient deterioration; > >> --the short distance of consumer to food eliminates long-distance > >> shipping, with its negative consequences such as global warming gas > >> emissions and continual replacement of road (and other) > >> infrastructure; > >> --generally uses little or no pesticides and builds the soil organically; > >> --provides the carbon dioxide fixation effects of plant growth; > >> --diminishes the "heat island" effect in urban areas; > >> --may capture and reuse stormwater runoff; > >> --is generally more intensive in yield per acre and therefore > >> "consumes" less land; > >> --gives people more control over what goes into their food; > >> --provides an opportunity for exercise and fresh air; > >> --brings people together and builds relationships; > >> --improves mental health thru a variety of factors, including social > >> contact and the sense of accomplishment in growing good food; > >> --provides youth a constructive outlet for their energies; > >> --provides opportunity for small-scale entrepreneurial activity; > >> --promotes local economies, including the non-monetized economy; > >> --creates beauty and tranquility; > >> --may reclaim abandoned spaces; > >> --connects people with nature and the seasons; > >> --connects people with their communities; > >> --is a great education tool for both youth and adults on how nature works; > >> --teaches people how to provide for themselves, increasing homeland > >> security (as well as being less vulnerable to disruption than other > >> aspects of the current food system); > >> --helps create a community presence which may deter crime; > >> --reduces cost of obtaining food; > >> --often reduces hunger due to location in low-income communities; > >> --promotes less dependence on the global/corporate food system with > >> all of its environmental and social harms. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > >> > >> ________________________________________________________________________ > >> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > >> from > >> AOL at AOL.com. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 06:54:04 -0800 (PST) > > From: lynng30 <lynng30 at yahoo.com> > > Subject: [Community_garden] on cg benefits > > To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > Message-ID: <160676.97105.qm at web56114.mail.re3.yahoo.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > On the economics... > > One benefit that I don't think was mentioned but that > > applies perhaps only to certain cities is the cost of > > maintaining the land. If gardeners are using > > city-owned land to garden on, city services doesn't > > have to come around to mow, pick up trash or whatever > > they do as regular maintenance. > > > > In Cleveland - a city suffering from problems of many > > vacant lots - a good number of gardens are on > > city-owned land. It's useful to quantify how much > > money gardeners are saving city services by > > maintaining lots - there could even be an hourly rate > > applied. The cost of maintaining vacant lots came up > > at a council hearing some time last year. > > > > -lynn gregor > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > TV dinner still cooling? > > Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. > > http://tv.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:09:23 -0500 > > From: "Lexie Stoia" <lstoia at fpconservatory.org> > > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] victory gardens > > To: "lynng30" <lynng30 at yahoo.com>, > > <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> > > Message-ID: <KDEFLBIEDCCPGDBDGIODGEOMCFAA.lstoia at fpconservatory.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Hi Lynn and others, > > Here in the Grandview Heights suburb (Columbus, Ohio), the Wallace Gardens > > community garden goes back to Victory Garden days and has been gardened > > continuously since then. It is quite popular and has a waiting list. > > There will be a feature on this garden and Victory Gardens in general in the > > May/June issue of "Touch the Soil" magazine. > > Any others out there? > > > > Lexie > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org > > [mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org]On Behalf Of > > lynng30 > > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:46 PM > > To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > Subject: [Community_garden] victory gardens > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Just do a search on-line to get lots of info on > > Victory Gardens. Liberty Gardens were during WWI. > > > > In response to Tonya in St. Paul: > > I have a hard time believing there are only 2 Victory > > gardens left. Unless, you mean gardened consecutively > > every year since the war/the beginning of the garden? > > > > In Cleveland, I've heard of 2, maybe 3 that were used > > as Victory Gardens. I don't have official > > documentation on these but, I know at one site, the > > gardeners have collected any history they know about > > the site and say it was used as a V-garden and > > earlier. Though, I don't think this site was gardened > > consecutively from WWII until today. The other 2 > > gardens have not been recorded officially, really it's > > just be word of mouth, but doesn't mean that it isn't > > the truth because the research just hasn't been done. > > > > Other former-Victory Gardens out there?? > > > > Lynn Gregor > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > ________ > > Finding fabulous fares is fun. > > Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and > > hotel bargains. > > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.commu > > nitygarden.org > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 5 > > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:17:36 -0500 > > From: Libby J. Goldstein <libby at igc.org> > > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] victory gardens > > To: "Lexie Stoia" <lstoia at fpconservatory.org> > > Cc: lynng30 <lynng30 at yahoo.com>, > > community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > Message-ID: <54f0a1c7f280196fc735a24a4db24cfd at igc.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > > If it's still there, there is/was a garden in Boston's fens that began > > as a Victory Garden in WWII. > > > > Libby > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > End of Community_garden Digest, Vol 117, Issue 1 > > ************************************************ > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070305/d60f87b4/attachment.html > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: adam36055 at aol.com > To: skyprice at gmail.com > Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:57:23 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Benefits of community gardens > Remember, we do need to be clear where the interests of the Community Food > Security Coalition's Urban Agriculture Committee ends and where the interests > of the American Community Gardening Association begins.... > > While we both want to raise as much food in our cities as we can for our > hungry, and our selves, the American Community Garden's mission is also > largely transformative: > > Through...the organizing and empowering of urban residents to turn waste, or > "set aside," land to create community, strengthen families, and give > participants the very real understanding that America really "is our land,"; > by transforming this land to community gardens, and actively advocating for > our gardens as a distince and legitimate "land use," we are transforming > ourselves from "clients," or "tenants," to active, participating partners in > land use decisions, and, dare I say it, in our democracy. > > The ACGA is more than urban food production, though I do love the tomatoes. > > Best wishes, > > Adam Honigman > Hell's Kitchen, NYC > > -----Original Message----- > From: skyprice at gmail.com > To: adam36055 at aol.com > Cc: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org; NYC-GardensCoalition at > yahoogroups.com; gwenne.hayes-stewart at mobot.org; richard at > guerrillagardening.org > Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 9:40 AM > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Benefits of community gardens > > > I really appreciate all the time people have taken to point me in the > direction of further studies and to add items to the list. This list > is intended to serve as a partial basis for a much shorter bulleted > talking points paper to be presented to Congress (not local officials) > for revisions in the Farm Bill. There was no intentionality in the > order as I sent them out, since I will be boiling these points down > greatly to make them and other information fit on one page. In > addition, other people from the Community Food Security Coalition's > Urban Ag Committee are helping to contribute to the paper, so I'll > have a lot of reading and condensing to do. A first draft has to be > written as of today. > > I mainly just put it out there to see if there were items omitted (or > substantial disagreement, which there doesn't appear to be), and I > intend to incorporate the omitted items which people sent me both on > and off list. I also do appreciate people' suggestions on what are the > more telling points (reflected in what they suggested as the > "lead-offs" and "end points"). > > So again, thank you all, and please feel free to contact me with other > points as well which may be incorporated in later drafts. (It has to > be complete before March 16 since Lobby Day is March 19 and there's > the Farm to School conference in between.) > > Cynthia Price > Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council > > On 3/3/07, adam36055 at aol.com <adam36055 at aol.com> wrote: > > Some friendly suggestions and amendments: > > > > The first place you need to start, Cynthia, when creating a list of this > > sort, for the eyes of elected officials, governmental managers, the press, > > corporate and foundation funders is how "our thing," namely community > > gardening, best serves the municipalities and communites in which they are > > sited. > > > > It's the old negotiation mindset - you have to think, "what's in it for > > you," before you think, "what's in it for me." > > > > You know, perfectly well what you want, but you have to know where you can > > cast your nets, with your list of "benefits of community gardens," to catch > > the most fish. > > > > The main reason why the ACGA and this listserv is valuable to our > > coummunity of gardeners is that it helps us to think "beyond our garden > > gates," to keep us from wasting valuable non-gardening and "people > > organizing," time on "recreating wheels." With all due respect, there are > > some extraodinarily good wheels available on the ACGA website that you can > > attach to your wagon. > > > > 1) Please start with David Malakoff's great article, "What Good is > > Community Greening? Research Supports All Those Common Sense Answers You've > > Been Using for Years - But There is Still More to Learn: > > (http://www.communitygarden.org/whatgood.php). And then think of how you > > would best edit your list, and "pitch," thinking about "what's in it for > > you/what's in it for me?). > > > > 2) Currently, Gateway Greening's "Whitmire Study," > > (http://www.gatewaygreening.org/WhitmireStudy.asp ) > > is the first, and best study we have of community garden "quantifiables." > > ACGA Board member, and St. Louis Gateway Greening Director, Ms. Gwenne > > Hayes-Stewart has been the guiding force behind the creation of this > > invaluable and rigorous study of the effects of community gardens on their > > surrounding communities and it would be extremely useful for you, Cynthia, > > to reach out to Ms. Hayes-Stewart after you have read whatever you can find > > on-line about the study. > > > > Then you should re-edit your list, again.... > > > > > > My thoughts: > > > > While, I believe that while the food harvested in our urban community > > gardens is both useful and helpful in augmenting the diets of some urgan > > gardeners, their families and a few local food pantires, it is not of > > significant quantity at present to have made a substantial enough > > contribution in our national fight against hunger to be "lead-off" on your > > list. > > > > In future years, especially when transportation of fresh foods with fossil > > fueled tractor trailers becomes prohibitive for agricultural corporations, > > urban agriculure, and our gardens will become a more important "lead off." > > > > Now, I think, that: > > 1) stabilizing communities through community gardening, > > > > 2)the promotion of block safety through community gardening, > > > > 3) the recruitment of urban greening and park volunteers and leaders > > through community gardening > > > > 4) community education in healthy eating, diet, education, and the life > > sciences (i.e., food grows and you can grow it in this garden), and > > > > 5) the creation and nuturing of healthy, self-sustaining, urban greening > > communities through community gardening, with minimal a minimal outlay of > > public and private funding > > > > are better "lead offs". > > > > > > And, with the use of the quantifiables listed in the studies above, would > > be more use in explaining to elected officials, governmental managers, the > > media, corprorate and foundation funders, how "our thing," namely community > > gardening, best serves the municipalities and communities in which they are > > sited. > > > > And using the "what's in it for you/what's in it for me," strategy getting > > the seed money, water, and zoning our gardens need to serve our communities. > > > > Best wishes, > > Adam Honigman > > Hell's Kitchen, NYC > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: skyprice at gmail.com > > To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > Sent: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 6:06 PM > > Subject: [Community_garden] Benefits of community gardens > > > > On behalf of the Urban Ag Committee of the Community Food Security > > Coalition (which many ACGA folks like Betsy Johnson, James Kuhns and > > Rodger Cooley serve on), I would like to ask people to please comment > > on this list of CG benefits. Greater GR Food Systems Council developed > > it over the years for a variety of purposes, but obviously there are > > things that could be added. I'm also wondering if people think there > > are items that are wrong or should be stated differently. > > > > Please feel free to reply just to me if you'd like. Also, sorry for > > duplicate postings. > > > > Thanks for looking at this! > > > > Cynthia Price > > Chair, Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council > > > > Benefits of community gardening: > > --fresh fruits and vegetables taste better, making healthy eating easier; > > --there is more nutritional value in food that has not come a long > > distance causing nutrient deterioration; > > --the short distance of consumer to food eliminates long-distance > > shipping, with its negative consequences such as global warming gas > > emissions and continual replacement of road (and other) > > infrastructure; > > --generally uses little or no pesticides and builds the soil organically; > > --provides the carbon dioxide fixation effects of plant growth; > > --diminishes the "heat island" effect in urban areas; > > --may capture and reuse stormwater runoff; > > --is generally more intensive in yield per acre and therefore > > "consumes" less land; > > --gives people more control over what goes into their food; > > --provides an opportunity for exercise and fresh air; > > --brings people together and builds relationships; > > --improves mental health thru a variety of factors, including social > > contact and the sense of accomplishment in growing good food; > > --provides youth a constructive outlet for their energies; > > --provides opportunity for small-scale entrepreneurial activity; > > --promotes local economies, including the non-monetized economy; > > --creates beauty and tranquility; > > --may reclaim abandoned spaces; > > --connects people with nature and the seasons; > > --connects people with their communities; > > --is a great education tool for both youth and adults on how nature works; > > --teaches people how to provide for themselves, increasing homeland > > security (as well as being less vulnerable to disruption than other > > aspects of the current food system); > > --helps create a community presence which may deter crime; > > --reduces cost of obtaining food; > > --often reduces hunger due to location in low-income communities; > > --promotes less dependence on the global/corporate food system with > > all of its environmental and social harms. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from > > AOL at AOL.com. > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. 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