Here are some excerpts from an inspiring story from today's paper
about a community garden that was planted in a median strip.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/18/BAGTVK0N8B1.DTL&hw=community+garden&sn=001&sc=1000
SAN FRANCISCO
Garden transforms a mean street
4 years afte
When there is vandalism, there is always an opportunity to raise awareness
with the local press...
We recently faced some destruction to our gardens from presumably bored
kids, so our garden students wrote letters to the editor to express their
dismay... they featured the kids' work and this arti
Hi,
My name is Samantha and I'm currently living in Vancouver, B.C. I've
recently received a scholarship to attend the ACGA annual conference, rooting
for the future and am looking for a way to get there and also a place to stay
in the city. My transportation is a the main concern, as busses
Dr. White
Step one: cut the bermuda as close as possible to the soil. A heavy
duty string weed-eater works best.
Step two: take newspapers, using only the black and white pages, 8-10
pages thick, and wet them in a tub of water. Apply the wet newspaper
layer totally covering the weed area,
Dear Friends:
Good news! The Sobriety Garden has been saved!
Dr. Miescher got word this morning following a meeting between Bellevue and our
local politicians that the hospital has agreed to not destroy the garden, and
to find its parking spaces elsewhere. We are enormously grateful to ev
I maintain several school gardens with raised beds. Weed growth on
the pathways has become a time consuming maintenance task. What
suggestions are there for low maintenance/weed free pathways? At one
garden we laid landscape cloth and covered it with decomposed
granite. The bermuda grass g
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