RE: [cg] Re: [tb-cybergardens]: Fwd: City Faces New Community Development Block Grant Cuts
Don't forget the marble fountains. JH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cg] Re: [tb-cybergardens]: Fwd: City Faces New Community Development Block Grant Cuts I think our allocation will be ok for now-I actually testified at a Congressional Hearing on this earlier this year. But Adam, the GreenThumb budget annually is actually less than one million dollars, and we receive NO additional NYC money (except that we don't have to pay rent). I WISH I had 5 million to play with-there would be dedicated water and electricity and wrought iron fences on all the gardens if I did.-Edie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:38:03 -0400 Subject: [tb-cybergardens]: Fwd: City Faces New Community Development Block Grant Cuts Friends, Green Thumb and many public community gardening programs are funded by Federal Community Block Grants. In other words, without its Federal Community Development Block Grant, Green Thumb could lose its $5,000,000 or so of funding. Green Thumb has never been funded by the City of New York, so this could be quite serious. You can get the complete document from the IBO ( Independent Budget Office) message below. Seems that I'm full of great news lately...:( Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: IBOenews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBOenews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:34:49 -0400 Subject: City Faces New Community Development Block Grant Cuts New from IBO: New York City uses its federal Community Development Block Grant to fund a variety of programs--from housing maintenance to child care to cleaning vacant lots. But federal funding of the block grant has been decreasing since 2001, and another significant cut is on the Congressional agenda. This new edition of Inside the Budget is included as an attached pdf file, and is available on IBO's Web site at www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/newsfax/insidethebudget141.pdf. To receive printed versions of this or any other IBO publication, e-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call (212) 442-0632. IBO also encourages you to forward this e-mail to friends or colleagues who may be interested in its contents. IBO welcomes your comments and questions about this report. To send us your thoughts, simply click reply on this e-mail or send a new e-mail to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update your Acrobat Reader! Viewing and printing IBO publications requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher, available from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Doug Turetsky Chief of Staff/Communications Director NYC Independent Budget Office 110 William Street, New York, NY 10038 Phone: 212-442-0629/Cell: 917-513-7488 Fax: 212-442-0350 Get inside the budget--click here to receive IBO's free publications __ 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: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden __ 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: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
[cg] Hay Day Event at LaGuardia Corner Garden
Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay HAY DAY PARTY to keep and protect the LaGuardia Place Community Garden from developers (we'll tell you who upon arrival) With family, kin, friends join us on Date: October 30, 2005 Time: 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM Place: LaGuardia Place, between Bleecker Street and Houston (one block north of SOHO). Le Venue: Make scrarecrows; you bring old clothing. We have straw to stuff them and string to keep it all together. Dunk for apples picked from our apple tree, cider with spices and other goodies. Wear a costume or make one of your wishing - meet old friends. Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Hay Day Contact Dr. Eileen J. Ain, 917-747-2890 for information RSVP __ 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: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
[cg] Website Designer
We seek designer to create a website. Our garden is endangered and we need to communicate this via the Internet. Would appreciate referrals. LaGuardia Corner Garden __ 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: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
[cg] CCG Cleanup this Saturday
Friends, If you're in town, and want to venture up to midtown,get a little dirty, meet some visiting gardeners from St. Louus, throw some fresh herbs on your mid-day pizza and beer and maybe get filmed by a Japanese video crew (it's some kind of ecology show, been trying to explain that there are very few tomatoes being harvested in October, but there seems to be a language problem) come on up. Our gate is open, and if it ain't raining too much, will probably be fun. The Clinton Community Garden is located on West 48th Street, between 9th 10th avenues, mid block, on the south side of the street. Easy to find - there's this gate, behind a few obscenely huge street trees that the garden adopted. ( they're about 10 feet taller than the other street trees on the block) Best wishes, Adam Honigman Volunteer Clinton Community Garden Subj: CCG Cleanup this Saturday Date: 10/13/05 4:17:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from the Internet Please join us for Fall Clean-up Day at Clinton Community Garden this Saturday, October 15th, from 9am until 3pm. All volunteers welcome - come for an hour or two, or longer if you wish. We will be planting bulbs, sorting tools, working on compost and more. A limited quantity of bulbs will be available for rear garden plots. Rain date: Sunday, October 16th. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from rly-yi03.mx.aol.com (rly-yi03.mail.aol.com [172.18.180.131]) by air-yi01.mail.aol.com (v107.13) with ESMTP id MAILINYI11-7bd434ec0c03e3; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:17:26 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-smtplb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.109.5]) by rly-yi03.mx.aol.com (v107.13) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYI35-7bd434ec0c03e3; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:17:04 -0400 Received: from asus28 (cpe-68-175-72-179.nyc.res.rr.com [68.175.72.179]) by ms-smtp-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id j9DKEU1g029514; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:14:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Joshua Spahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: CCG Cleanup this Saturday Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:15:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-AOL-IP: 24.29.109.5 Please join us for Fall Clean-up Day at Clinton Community Garden this Saturday, October 15th, from 9am until 3pm. All volunteers welcome - come for an hour or two, or longer if you wish. We will be planting bulbs, sorting tools, working on compost and more. A limited quantity of bulbs will be available for rear garden plots. Rain date: Sunday, October 16th. __ 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: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
[cg] Edie Stone, Director of NYC Greenthumb Speaks....Finally.
This is Adam Honigman speaking as an individual community gardener. I must say that I am delighted that the NYC Community Gardening fraternity has finally been informed by Ms. Stone, Director of Green Thumb, about our new insurance status. However, the period between when Ms. Stone knew about NOSC's discontinuation of our insurance, in July/August of this year, and mid-October, when she finally decided to let us all know, albeit with some prodding from concerned and vocal community gardeners, is extremely troubling. Again, this observation is by me, as an individual community gardener. NYC's community gardeners are out there, keeping our community gardens clean, safe and welcoming, shovelling snow, hauling garbage, running events, doing alot of stuff that makes our gardens and Green Thumb look good. The very least I would like, as an individual gardner would like is for the Green Thumb, the community gardening organization that I'm involved with to, pretty please, disseminate information on a key issue like insurance to its gardeners, in a timely matter. I don't like hearing about an adult matter like public space liability insurance the way teenagers used to learn about sex - via the grapevine. To not have received timely information on our community garden liability insurance seems, on the face of it, to be awfully negligent on the part of Greenthumb. Of course, I'm speaking as an individual here. Others may be less concerned As an individual, I like making Green Thumb look good - they gave me a plaque and all, (see, http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org ) and I am a longtime supporter of NYC Parks Gardens because I believe that under Parks our gardens will always be accessible to the communities we serve - not private garden clubs functioning under the community garden label. However, timely communication on key safety information, like liability insurance coverage, is essential. As an individual, I got more timely events information from Lily's Bar, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, ( an establishment that Ms. Stone has or had an ownership interest ) than I do, or the Green Thumb garden that I'm associated with got, on its liability insurance. A matter of priorities, methinks. Again, speaking as an individual gardener, it seems that community gardening organizations, like Gateway Greening in St, Louis, or Seattle's P-Patch, have managed to do a better job, especially in organizing and keeping gardeners informed of issues essential to them, than we have managed to do here in NYC. And Gateway Greening and Seattle P-Patch Publications manage to reach me, via snail mail, faster and in a more timely fashion than those from Green Thumb. I know that we involved in community gardening in NYC can do better - and perhaps in the future, will. I know that Ms. Stone and NYC Parks Green Thumb has worked very hard for NYC's community gardens and gardeners - this gardener, again, speaking as an individual, just believes that this city's gardeners deserve a bit more transparency in governance and communication, from a community gardening organization funded by our federal tax dollars, via federal block grants, please. Happy Thursday, Adam Honigman, speaking as an individual, Volunteer, Clinton Community Garden __ 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: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
