nope you won't.... We have two items about community garden insurance on our website... www.gardeningmatters.org -- just type in insurance in the search area or it would be under "coordinating" (left hand column).
Secondly, I'll just say that you'll want a rider and hopefully from a community-based organization that can add capacity/support to the garden in other ways. Use the need for insurance as a way to deepen connections within the neighborhood. Self-sufficiency is great, but it can often lead to isolation unless there other mechanisms in place to prevent this. Isolation is a key reason for gardens to implode or otherwise come up short on its potential for community improvement. That said, I still would really love for the landowners of community gardens to find reassurance in some way other than liability insurance. Liability Insurance is really just smoke and mirrors (from my perspective) and a pointless waste of people's time and money, and all too easily, become a barrier or hurdle to the garden's operations and thus an unnecessary hardship among gardeners who are trying to do good in their community. any other thoughts for what could be done to give landowners assurance while keeping it simple for community gardeners? What should gardeners be asked do in order to keep injury from happening among them or visitors (invited or otherwise) to the garden? thems my thoughts.... thanks for hearing me! Kirsten Saylor co-founder, Gardening Matters > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:15:28 -0500 (EST) > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Community_garden] INSURANCE > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > We are a new community garden in the panhandle of Florida and are > exploring our insurance options. So far we have checked with several > insurers who have stated they don't underwrite for this type of project. > > So, what companies have all of you found willing to insure your > organization? We plan to organize as a 501c3. We really need some guidance! > > Catherine Ward > [email protected] > Common Ground Community Garden > Crestview, FL > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20130309/a440c00a/attachment.html > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > ------------------------------ > > End of Community_garden Digest, Vol 1569, Issue 1 > ************************************************* > -- Kirsten Saylor Gardening Matters office: 612-821-2358 [email protected] www.gardeningmatters.org Calendar of Urban Ag events around the metro<http://www.gardeningmatters.org/events/calendar> We're super excited about the *Community Garden Spring Resource Fair on March 9th* at Metropolitan State University, St. Paul! Keynote speaker is LaDonna Redmond from IATP about *Reconstructing our Relationship with Land*. Visit website <http://www.gardeningmatters.org/> for latest details! Looking forward to seeing you there! *Hold a Composting Workshop for the neighborhood and get a free compost bin! * The Compostadores are offering free bin build workshops to Community Gardens that are located in Hennepin County. These workshops are provided by Hennepin County Green Partner program to encourage the creation of wealth (i.e. fertile soil) vs burying or burning valuable resources. If your garden is interested in hosting a 2-hour bin build for your gardeners and garden's neighbors, please contact Nate via email at nate.gardeningmatters.org to set up a Spring Bin Build. Lets Get Composting! Did you know Gardening Matters offers two signature workshops<http://www.gardeningmatters.org/resources/startup> focused on success and sustainability? The "Garden Start-Up Workshop"<http://www.gardeningmatters.org/resources/startup> is designed to get new gardens started on the right foot, and the "Garden Sustainability Workshop" <http://www.gardeningmatters.org/resources/startup> helps existing gardens tackle challenges and work toward greater sustainability. Contact us for more information! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20130311/955eea08/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. 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