In a nutshell, Habitat for Humanity is a great organization that helps provide affordable and decent housing. Here's the website: http://www.habitat.org/how/factsheet.aspx
Sarah Bailey Master Gardener Program Coordinator Cooperative Extension Service 1800 Asylum Avenue West Hartford, CT 06117 Ph: 860-570-9023 Fax: 860-570-9008 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Diann Dirks Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:27 AM To: Sharon Gordon; 'ellen kirby'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Habitat for Humanity I keep hearing this thing about Habitat for Humanity. What is this all about? I have no idea. The only reference I have to Habitat was that experiment a number of years ago with an enclosed system testing survival. Thanks, Di ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Gordon" <[email protected]> To: "'ellen kirby'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Habitat for Humanity > >The local Habitat for Humanity organization here in Winston-Salem, North > Carolina is hoping to have a community garden as part of their newest > building program. Does anyone have experience with Habitat gardens? If > you > can give me your email I would be happy to communicate directly. Thanks > in > advance. > > > A few things you might consider doing: > > * Use edible landscaping at the habitat houses in addition to having > traditional vegetable beds. Fruit trees are very pretty when they bloom. > Blueberries grow well there and provide a lot of fall color. > > * If you don't already have some volunteers with permaculture training, > consider sending a couple of volunteers to a course and having some of the > especially good regional instructors do a course for volunteers and > Habitat > Families in your area. Some of the Habitat houses and grounds could be > the > designed as projects for the courses. > > * Have garden training along with house care training. > > * Develop some sample plans vegetable garden beds and rotations that > incorporate most of the Habitat Families favorite foods. Do additional > plans for additional local ethnic groups. Also make weekly to do lists so > people will know what needs doing in their gardens each week. > > * If you have a traditional community garden for a Habitat neighborhood, > consider using some of the space to raise the edible trees, shrubs, and > perennials for future habitat houses. This can provide training for teens > or adults to work in the local nursery industry as well. > > * Have a demonstration vegetable garden somewhere highly visible such as > at > a church or a school. Or if one of those can't be located at the start, > see > if one of the first couple of Habitat houses would enjoy having the demo > garden in their new yard. > > Sharon > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.c ommunitygarden.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.c ommunitygarden.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
