Also, talk to Jason O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Vancouver about MOBY (My Own Back Yard) program http://www.myownbackyard.ca/ Nice YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJypFEA33lU
Bill Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the Franklin Park Conservatory's Growing to Green Program in Columbus, OH does some of the same http://www.fpconservatory.org/growingtogreen.htm >From my experience, the key is to be sure that it is the community (not your program) that wants and is creating the gardens. Gardens created by others for someone tend not to be sustainable. ACGA's Growing Communities Curriculum has lots of very useful information about organizing and developing community leadership. http://www.communitygarden.org/learn/resources/publications.php Happy New Years, Betsy Betsy Johnson 11 1/2 Greenwich Park Boston, MA 02118 617-536-1711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathy Dellwo Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:32 PM To: American Community Garden Assos. listserve Cc: Pat Munts Subject: [Community_garden] Urban Community Garden. We are just beginning an Urban Garden Project in Spokane. It is in a poor but unique neighborhood near downtown Spokane. We are "a scattered site" community garden--using yard space from private property owners and churchyards. We plan to clean up and throw seed into vacant lots, encourage people to garden in their yards and develop gardens at these different "scattered" locations in the neighborhood. We will find caring people who will garden a spot at one of our sites and who be willing to nurture a young person or two. This spring we hope to be ready to hire 4-6 youth out of drug court--and to have a summer garden camp. We plan to develop small roadside stands in the neighborhood to sell some of the produce that the gardeners donate, and or, a central Market in the neighborhood. We are just starting out but with a lot of community support. Does anyone you know have a community garden project that is similar that we might learn from? We are in contact with Boise, Missoula and Olympia. Kathy Dellwo Riverfront Farm 2605 W.Boone Ave Spokane, WA 99201 509-325-3104 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygar den.org/attachments/20080101/c9992fc5/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: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org _______________________________________________ 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: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
