I do understand your viewpoint.
However, from other entries on the list serv I see that the experience of
some of the members points to a major importance of political connection and
control over our gardens. If it is on gov. land, it is up for grabs by any
politician who sees a way to gain them some kudos and political currency. If
it is under a land trust and controlled by the gardeners themselves, and
they have set up a corporation or such, then you are protected more. But
someone can come along and change the coding, and whoosh, your agricultural
land is now commercial. Poof goes the garden. So, political is important.
But I would like to see more gardening discussions and data on it come in
for those of our newer members who need help and support in their efforts to
start or run CGs.
Has anyone out there had experience setting up farmers markets for excess CG
production?
Di
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Fishburn" <sa...@sarahfishburn.com>
To: "K. Rashid Nuri" <ad...@trulylivingwell.com>
Cc: "Karen Jones" <k.jo...@uwinnipeg.ca>;
<community_garden@list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Politicians and Gardens
I agree with Rashid, and with Jack Hale as well. . .and maybe given the
opportunity, and actual knowledge, people in EVERY field would become
interested in CG, which has to happen before active participation and
advocacy. I'm an artist and a writer first, community gardening is high on
my priority list, but I do feel assailed by the vitriol of which we seem
to be hearing so much of in the past few days. Jeepers, as much as I want
to be part of my neighborhood and our gardening set-up, maybe I SHOULD get
off this list, on the other hand I so appreciate the actual gardening
knowledge, though rarer of late. Sometimes it seems to me the most
adamantly"apolitical" are actually quite the opposite. Everyone has to
begin somewhere, and if a certain group is immediately judged and
consequently shunned by "active insiders" because of their job
classification, it will merely become one more once promising looking
arena filed under "not viable".
I am not saying any of this to cause more dissension, really more as an
observation, and a hope that the list and group adopt a more inclusive
approach.
sarah
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On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:39 AM, K. Rashid Nuri wrote:
Karen
I fully understand why you may not want an elected
official on your board, but I think you are missing something quite
fundamental about the work in which we are engaged. In today's
environment, there is nothing more political or revolutionary in nature
than people taking control over the source and production of their own
food. Much of the so-called third world already participates in
well-developed local food economies. For the most part, we have given
up control over our food.in the U.S. The work of community gardeners is
changing that paradigm. It is both revolutionary and political.
Peace
K. Rashid Nuri
Truly Living Well Natural Urban Farms
P.O. Box 90841
East Point GA 30364
Phone: 404 520 8331
www.trulylivingwell.com
It is simply service that measures success. - George Washington Carver
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