Begin forwarded message: > From: Carolyn Zezima <[email protected]> > Date: October 11, 2013 2:58:36 PM EDT > To: Comfood <[email protected]> > Subject: [COMFOOD: ] Creating resident gardens at affordable housing sites > Reply-To: Carolyn Zezima <[email protected]> > > Thank you to everyone who responded to my email request a couple of months > ago asking about your experiences in creating resident gardens at affordable > housing sites. I spoke with over a dozen of you and got a lot of great > information about gardening programs at different housing sites around the > country. > > Your input became an article for the Assisted Housing Management Insider. The > Insider is a national plain English "how-to" publication, giving advice to > owners and managers of low-income/federally-subsidized and public housing > (Section 8 project-based, Section 202, Section 236, Tax Credit, NYCHA/PHA, > HOPE 6 and other federally regulated sites) on complying with complicated > housing regulations as well as working tools for managing their properties > effectively. The story is very much geared toward these owners and managers, > not the more savvy food system and gardening advocates on this listserv. > Indeed, the subject matter is generally outside of the publication's usual > content, which is why they used an outside editor. So it is almost a primer > for those with little knowledge about food issues and gardening for starting > and managing a resident community gardening project at affordable housing > sites, though the article makes clear that the site should partner with > community organizatio ns who have the gardening knowledge and resources--several of the sources in the article are those types of community partners. > > Not all of your input made it into the story, though it did provide great > background, and again, thanks for your input! > > Click here for an excerpt with a link to the full story. The publication is > generally for paid subscribers only, but the editor unlocked the gardening > story online for public view because she thought it would have a wide > audience beyond existing subscribers, including opening up the idea of > gardening to people who haven't considered it before, and so it would be a > good marketing tool for site owners and managers to subscribe and for others > to use. Feel free to share and use, and I think you can print, though I don't > know if you can download a PDF or not. And there are also links on the > publisher's site once you click through for model tools, including model > garden rules and a model survey for residents and site staff. > > Best, > > Carolyn Zezima > > President > > NYC Foodscape > > Sprouting and nurturing healthy ideas > > [email protected] > > www.nycfoodscape.com > > (847) 507-1785 > > > > > NO FUNDRAISING ON COMFOOD. NO JOBS LISTINGS: Post jobs, internships, or > volunteer opportunities to Comfoodjobs: To subscribe: > https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/comfoodjobs > > Comfood posting guidelines: > http://foodsecurity.org/Comfood_Posting_Guidelines.pdf > > Subscribe to COMFOOD: https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/comfood > Unsubscribe from COMFOOD: https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/signoff/comfood > > > > > > > > > > > >
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