Hi Fellow Gardeners: I felt compelled to send you this information as if passed will dramatically affect our small organic farms mandating conformance to FDA standards and adding enormous amounts of paperwork to their already hectic workloads. Please take the time to look at this link and forward to all of your friends who care about our local all natural and organic farmers. Thank you...Linda Ludwig
http://www.ftcldf.org/petitions/pnum993.php -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: Jul 13, 2009 1:00 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Community_garden Digest, Vol 785, Issue 1 > >Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. (no subject) (George Campbell) > 2. Re: (no subject) (Diann Dirks) > 3. July Teleconference (Laura Lavid) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:08:29 -0400 >From: "George Campbell" <[email protected]> >Subject: [Community_garden] (no subject) >To: <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <6e459b5cbe9b43ec8b0943bb6b7b2...@monster> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > It has been a while since I have been on the listserve. The activity was >overwhelming my e-mail. I have missed the discussions and helpful insights. >A friend's inquiry has brought me back. The question below came to my >attention via Transition Tennessee.I am hoping that some of you might have >some insight to this problem.Peace and blessings > > > >Jeff Campbell > > > > > > > >As a member of the city's Eco-Friendly Landscaping group and three of the >city's Chattanooga Green action teams, I've spoken with city representatives >about developing a program that helps elder members of the community >naturalize their lawns, so that maintaining lawns in one's senior years >doesn't become a crippling expense on a fixed income. If through age, or >disability, you can no longer mow/maintain your yard yourself, you face >court hearings if you can't develop a big yard budget. >The strict interpretation of the ordinance currently exposes people to >citations for overgrowth, if they don't naturalize their yard, such as turn >it into woods or a meadow. >Members of Sustainable Chattanooga are brainstorming this issue, and have >even formed a group (GreenwayV), where those of us who are naturalizing our >lawns help each other. >A program that helps the elderly live longer in their own homes is valuable >to the health of any community, even the fiscal health, seeing as we already >are experiencing record foreclosure and bankruptcy rates! > >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090712/0cceddfb/attachment.html> > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:56:20 -0400 >From: "Diann Dirks" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Community_garden] (no subject) >To: "George Campbell" <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <a7e3b50f7c164e898b4d69756bc70...@lorenpc> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Just an idea, but aren't there any CSAs out there that could use some extra >growing space? Why not have the elderly who are facing this problem let some >young enterprising growers turn their useless yards into productive >gardening space. And then give the elderly free portions in the produce >which is all around a win win. Anyone out there thinking of doing some urban >gardening but no place to do it? Perhaps you guys could get together. Or put >in orchards on that space and let the organizers of the food pantries garner >and gleen, exchanging some weeding or mulching for fruit. >How about it? >Best, >Diann Dirks >Director, Auburn CG Project, Ga. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "George Campbell" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:08 PM >Subject: [Community_garden] (no subject) > > >> It has been a while since I have been on the listserve. The activity was >> overwhelming my e-mail. I have missed the discussions and helpful >> insights. >> A friend's inquiry has brought me back. The question below came to my >> attention via Transition Tennessee.I am hoping that some of you might have >> some insight to this problem.Peace and blessings >> >> >> >> Jeff Campbell >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> As a member of the city's Eco-Friendly Landscaping group and three of the >> city's Chattanooga Green action teams, I've spoken with city >> representatives >> about developing a program that helps elder members of the community >> naturalize their lawns, so that maintaining lawns in one's senior years >> doesn't become a crippling expense on a fixed income. If through age, or >> disability, you can no longer mow/maintain your yard yourself, you face >> court hearings if you can't develop a big yard budget. >> The strict interpretation of the ordinance currently exposes people to >> citations for overgrowth, if they don't naturalize their yard, such as >> turn >> it into woods or a meadow. >> Members of Sustainable Chattanooga are brainstorming this issue, and have >> even formed a group (GreenwayV), where those of us who are naturalizing >> our >> lawns help each other. >> A program that helps the elderly live longer in their own homes is >> valuable >> to the health of any community, even the fiscal health, seeing as we >> already >> are experiencing record foreclosure and bankruptcy rates! >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090712/0cceddfb/attachment.html> >> _______________________________________________ >> The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of >> ACGA's services to community gardeners. 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