Don, As much as I'd love to take credit for keeping the website in shape, it isn't me . I do however, forward new link suggestions to Jim Call who has all the html smarts to make them happen.
ACGA Web Credit where credit is due: > This site was originally designed and coded by Kenneth Seasholes and <A > HREF="http://ag.arizona.edu/extension/personnel/bios/lucybradley.html";>Lucy > Bradley</A>, and modified by <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ann > Cherin</A>. > > The webmaster is <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jason Thies</A>, with the > links page maintained by <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jim Call.</A> > Site Hosted by <A HREF="http://www.mallorn.com/";>Mallorn Computing Inc</A>. I just garden and hang out a bit much on the listserve so it looks like I do something. By the way, I think you'd make a wonderful editor for the Greening Review, Don. Best wishes, Adam Honigman Volunteer, <A HREF="http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org/";>Clinton Community Garden</A> > Subj: [cg] In response to 3 messages > Date: 9/26/03 7:06:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > Hi, everyone, > > Oh, well, a nasty lagging storm washed away my 'model' > garden bed in that new community garden up in > Cornelius NC. Looks like I'll be replanting this > weekend, with a 'slight' change in orientation to my > rows. And yet, the garden is doing OK, I keep meeting > folks out there having the time of their lives... > > I'd like to comment on all 3 posts from yesterday. > > Welcome back, Elizabeth Succop. Where did you serve (I > was in Togo)? Elizabeth's job hunt raises some > questions I've become interested in recently - > > How many of us make our livelihoods from community > gardening or a related area? For instance, working as > a USDA urban extension agent, or working for a > non-profit agency that supports community gardening? I > guess no one 'works for ACGA' (though, as one of the > applicants to edit the annual publication, I've found > that we do pay someone to do that. By the way, good > news - last I heard, there was more than one > applicant! Not the Cal. recall, but hey. Remember, > all, you've got until Oct. 3 to put your straw hat in > the ring...) Right now, Anna Wasescha does our > newsletter 'The Community Gardener' gratis, and does a > beautiful job, just as Adam Honigman keeps this > fantastic website in good shape, playing real good for > free). My guess is that nobody gets rich off community > gardening. I do wonder where the wages come from - > USDA, cities, grants...??? > > Second musing - How many of us who make a full or > part-time income from working for community gardening > (which I think is very valuable and honorable work, > btw) also belong to a community garden in our own > neighborhood? Is (isn't?) that a tremendously helpful > thing to do? I'm 2 years into working to set up a > garden in my own neighborhood, and it isn't easy! We > lost our hoped for site beside a Quaker church, and > now we are out looking again... > > Anyway, good luck, Elizabeth. I commend your choice to > choose a path of right livelihood, and, one way or > another, hope you find your way to a garden. And good > luck with the reverse culture shock, it can be a > doozy. We have a returned PCV group in Charlotte, you > might want to look one up where you live. > > Meanwhile, I was very much saddened to hear about > Rincon Criolo. While I personally thought Alan Feuer's > article was quite well done and saw no painful > neo-colonialism in it, Carlos, I agree it is very > painful to hear of the threat to this wonderful garden > from what amounts to another incarnation of urban > renewal. We lost a community garden here in Charlotte > a few years back, and we don't have all that many yet, > to a proposed Habitat for Humanity project. There > seemed to be no way to stop the process. Worse, in the > end, the Habitat house was never built! > > These problems are complex, but certainly part of the > challenge is widespread and growing cultural > ignorance, at least in the US, about the value of > growing food, working as a community and sharing the > commons with our neighbors. We cannot take it for > granted, can we, that others will see the benefits of > community gardens that are so clear to us? > > Carlos, I don't think the writer was trying to excuse > or condone the anti-garden attitude of Nos Quedamos, > but simply trying to accurately reflect their > point-of-view. All of us who support community > gardening face the task not only of convincing our > political adversaries but also, at times, educating > our friends and allies. Buena suerte, Carlos, and I > have sent an email in support of the garden to the > people you suggest. > > That said, those were inspiring words from Hope > Coulter. Our cause may be built from a vacant lot here > and a corner of a park there, but the larger issues we > address are truly global in their impact. > > Don Boekelheide > Charlotte, NC
