Dear Bethann,
I'm a big fan of initiatives like yours, because they can lay the
foundation for at least a virtual community gardening experience and
provide yet another path to recovery of basic food knowledge that most
of us have sadly lost. Off the top of my head, I'd suggest that you add
plans for a small, centrally-located, raised-bed
learning/teaching/demonstration garden to your equation--at a public
school, park, church, local Y or other service organization: Your
gardening "homeschoolers" will really thrive, if they and their mentors
have a place to gather for orientation sessions and periodic workshops
on best practices (which my friend here in southeastern Pennsylvania,
Mary Kay Peterson, simply calls her "Garden Conversations"), as well as
to grow fresh produce for local food cupboards to supplement what they
are able to raise at home. You might even be surprised to find that some
will want to make such communal experiences a ongoing part of their
lives as gardeners after their first season.
Please keep us posted on your progress!
--Dick
Bethann Garramon wrote:
Does anyone have experience with starting up (or facilitating) an Adopt-A-Gardener
or similar one-on-one gardening mentoring programs? In my community, we have
determined we do not currently have interest/need for a centralized rent-a-plot
community garden. This is largely because we are a rural community with plenty of
space for gardening. However, we have a need for interested inexperienced
individuals to receive personal mentoring in gardening, in order to ensure first
season success, and increase the possibility of developing life-long gardeners.
Our group has therefore resolved to establish a matching program to pair
experienced willing gardeners with those interested in learning to garden. I'm
wondering if anyone has experience, resources, contracts & other documents,
etc. to address this project.
Thanks!
Bethann
"The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world.
Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our
bodies and minds." Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma
Fata volente ducunt, nolentem trahun. - - The Fates lead the willing and drag
the reluctant.
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