Questions: Is $800 a year a lot? Compared to what? That's about $20 per week for 40 weeks, about $3 a day. How much do people spend on food per week? What do people et with $3 a day? There seems to be some misunderstanding about Capitalism. Capitalism is not all bad. However, it is bad when you have free trade, and when you have competitions, then the costs are kept low. May the lowest bidders win! Greed is when money is in the hand of a few people, and everyone else is dirt poor. Then everyone else is angry. Is it possible to ever have Socialist Capitalism?
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” - Winston Churchill ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ --- On Sat, 1/3/09, the john doe experience <[email protected]> wrote: From: the john doe experience <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Milwaukee's First Roof-Top Farm Offers CSA Shares. To: "James Godsil" <[email protected]>, "Community GardenNational" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 5:16 PM let all be fine and well, two predictions; 1). your precident will encourage others to increase food costs. 2). as a result of increased food costs others will compete and offer food grown from rooftops at increased costs. so is it better to charge more for local produce? letts ask again in five years On 1/3/09, James Godsil <[email protected]> wrote: > Inspired by Will Allen's Growing Power methods and using Growing Power's > compost... > > Community Growers has inaugurated Milwaukee's first *roof-top farm*. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsAUS86J7E > > http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/ErikLindberg > > http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CommunityGrowers/HomePage > > We are now offering a limited number of CSA shares for 2009… > $800 per share. > > Our weekly shares will be comprised of a full range of vegetables and herbs > grown on the Community Building and Restoration building on N. Palmer St., > just south of Capitol. These will be the freshest vegetables available. > > Imagine the Possibilities > > This year's subscription will cost $800. Because of our limited space and > the unique nature of our endeavor, the cost of our shares may be on the high > end for local CSAs, but we hope to offset this additional cost with a longer > season, due to our ability to erect a greenhouse over our planting area at > the beginning and end of the growing season. As of November 5th, we were > still harvesting tomatoes and peppers, broccoli and cauliflower, as well as > a host of greens and root vegetables; as of January 1, we are still > harvesting Kale, Spinach, Arugula, and Lettuce. We expect a 35 week season > and hope for a 40 week. > > Great pictures and more prose at... > > http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CommunityGrowersCSAFarm/HomePage > > Send e-mail to [email protected] for more > information and updates. > The Marriage of Milwaukee Artisans With Good Food Movement > > Community Growers Rooftop Farm and the developing Sweet Water Oragnics Fish > Farm Project in concert with Growing Power have eyes fixed on the prize of > sparking similar installations in Milwaukee, the Great Lakes, and beyond. > > http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage > > Carpenters, metal smiths, masons, painters, etc. are natural partners in the > good food movement, due to the seasonality of their work and the resources > their trades provide that are much needed in our movement, e.g. trucks, > enterprising risk tolerant spirits, and more. > > Help inspire your local artisans to take some Growing Power "From the Ground > Up" winter workshops one of these years and witness rooftop farms and the > transformation of industrial slums into aquaculture systems! > > What say? > > Why not? > > Godsil > http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage > http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/CommunityRoofingAndRestorationInc > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090103/c69c4aa2/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. 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