Hello Alison...My wife is a teacher at Lookout Valley Elementary. She received a Junior League grant last year for a school garden. She planned and with her "garden club" assistance put in a 64 sq. ft. raised bed garden in front of her school. It was reasonably successful...she would be a good contact. In addition, we own a 10 acre farm on the back of Lookout Mtn., on which I would love to start a community garden. It has very rich soil, which is somewhat unusual for Lookout given its history of repeated clearcutting and strip mining. The couple I purchased the farm from had gardened in an unofficial organic fashion for some years with great success. I had at one time attempted to gain interest from folks at my church, Good Shepherd Episcopal, to do a church community garden, but to no avail. Perhaps it was the driving time of 20-25 minutes that was an impasse. Nonetheless I would love to start a CG there, with assistance of course. I can supply the acreage, some tools, fertilizers, etc., but would like to have partners. We also have one McIntosh apple tree and a pear tree and loads of wild blackberries that were so sweet this last year. I have a deer proof enclosure of roughly 1500 sq. ft.
Which organic farm do you work with? I have sent this e-mail to my wife's school e-mail which you see above. Feel free to contact her. Peace and blessings Jeff campbell -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of heather oakley Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:13 PM To: Alison Burke Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Questions! Budget, Workshop,and School/Community Garden www.global-gardens.org On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Alison Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi. I'm Alison from Chattanooga, TN. I'm interning at a local organic > farm and we're working on putting together a workshop to help various groups > in our area (the local homeless shelter, several churches, a school, a > neighborhood assoc...) start their own community gardens. We've received > some grant funding to pay for the workshop itself and to give each group a > stipend to get started on. So... > > 1. Could anyone who has begun a small-scale cg from the ground up provide > a sample budget (the plot of land is already established) that we could > (anonymously, of course) use as a guide? > > 2. Does anyone have experience with a community garden that is built on > elementary school property and will be shared by the community and the > school? Any advice or contact information in regard to the school/community > combination? > > 3. Has anyone hosted or attended any workshops in this vein? If so, any > advice or informational handouts would be great.... > > 4. Do you know anyone in the Southeast who we could use as workshop > facilitators (we'll pay :) ) in either technical or organizational areas? > > Thanks! > Alison > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman, Civil Rights activist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communityga rden.org/attachments/20081120/f33ba35f/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
