In my experience, having a garden at the place where I pay rent would not be a good idea. Even in places where I ended up staying for years, rentals always felt temporary to me. If you move, you lose everything. One place where I lived for 18 years (apt. in a house) had a whole acre of land, all of it sprayed, and there was no place where I was allowed to have a garden -- even if I had wanted to risk growing food in a place that was regularly sprayed with poisons.
People I've known who have had gardens at rentals have had individual agreements with the owner. In most cases, they want the street side to be lawn and poodled shrubs, but the backyard or fenced yard is ok to use. The good thing about community gardens is that (assuming you move locally) at least you still have your garden when you change rentals. For me, "home" has always been one of my gardens, not the place where I'm paying rent, so perhaps I'm an outlier. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Nadja at Gardening Matters < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello gardening friends- > This is not exactly a community garden question, but a question about > increasing land access for those who may live in a rental property with the > potential of gardening where they live. (This is important because we have > long wait lists for many gardens, but we could help utilize other land.) > So- I am beginning work on a project to increase land access for renters > who would like to garden. We are working to compile best practices working > with landlords and tenants. The idea is that landlords would allow > gardening on their land, with specific guidelines for the renters. Has > anyone done any work in this arena? We are thinking about landlords of > single family homes, duplexes, and triplexes, but also landlords of larger > buildings who might allow gardening. I'd love to chat if you have any > experience. Thank you! > > -- > Nadja Berneche > Program Director, Gardening Matters > 310 E. 38th St., Minneapolis, MN 55409 > Office: 612-821-2358 > [email protected] > www.gardeningmatters.org > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20140213/1a90a6e6/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -- Cicero -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20140214/e7de148c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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
