[cg] Community gardens in the news

2003-07-28 Thread Sharon Gordon
There was an interesting article in the paper about a community garden this weekend. It's about gluts and plot holders at Musselburgh Allotments that got together to pool their knowledge about what to do with the summer's abundance. Quite fun:

RE: [cg] Misunderstood Plants in the Garden

2003-07-28 Thread Sharon Gordon
Thanks for the list of all the helpful sites. Another really helpful one is the Plants for a Future database. http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_search.html They have about 7000 plants in the database so far and are compiling information about the plant's use. I was looking in it this morning to see

[cg] Columbus area gardens

2003-07-28 Thread Justin Russell
Is anyone on this listserv from the Columbus, OH area? If anyone has any info about any gardens in this area I would like to check them out. Thanks! Justin Russell Inter-Faith Ministries Campaign To End Childhood Hunger Americorps*VISTA Gardening Projects Coordinator/ Anti-Hunger Curriculum

[cg] Conference

2003-07-28 Thread Sharon Gordon
Shameless begging follows... For anyone going to the conference this week---If you have a digital camera, would you get pictures from garden/site tours that you go on and post them somewhere so those that didn't get to go or who went on alternate tours could share in the wonderful things you got

Re: [cg] Columbus area gardens

2003-07-28 Thread jeremy.person
when i lived in columbus 2+ years ago there was a group trying to start up a garden in a vacant lot next to a school on the corner of Summit (3rd St.) and King Ave. i helped with the design and such but then left town before anything happened. the garen was going to be affiliated with the

Re: [cg] Re: Misplaced Plants in the Garden

2003-07-28 Thread LTanenb50
Thanks to Jeneva and others for helping open up my brain. What could be more fun than that? Laurie, Chicago Laurie Tanenbaum Grounds For Growth 773-489-0167