[Community_garden] produce from garden - add the allia!

2008-02-12 Thread Janet Parker
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[Community_garden] More Pollinator Resources

2008-02-12 Thread Alliums
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Re: [Community_garden] urban gardens - zoning

2008-02-12 Thread Hannah Laurison
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Re: [Community_garden] random - question re: UU/church cgs -Gardenrant plug

2008-02-12 Thread Jack Hale
Yep. We have a community greenhouse. In fact, we have 2. One offers springtime 4x8 growing benches for folks who want to start seedlings. The other was established last year as an incubator for a few community gardeners who are moving into commercial scale production and needed more bench space

[Community_garden] Article about Oregon Food Bank's garden

2008-02-12 Thread Starr Farris
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Re: [Community_garden] random - question re: UU/church cgs - Gardenrant plug

2008-02-12 Thread Don Boekelheide
Message: 4 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:47:32 -0500 Fred, your posts are worth waiting for... besides, I have a teenager, so we thrive on random here in my household. Do you think maybe that semi-truck was an Act of God, sent to your urban garden to bring justice and closure to that old

Re: [Community_garden] Dollar value of produce from gardens

2008-02-12 Thread Sharon Gordon
Janet, Thank you for posting that. They got a tremendous amount of good food from their garden. Did they use any space saving strategies such as planting their squash at the edges of the corn and letting the vines run in to the corn? Were most of their plantings in rows or wide beds? One

Re: [Community_garden] random

2008-02-12 Thread Amy DeShon
Congratulations on your stroke of serendipity! Divine intervention! Karma! :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred Conrad Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:48 PM To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: [Community_garden]

[Community_garden] Another look at the landfill garden

2008-02-12 Thread Mike McGrath
There's a BIG difference between 'reclaiming' land and using it as a high-traffic, food-growing area. Establishing grasses and trees and such will protect the area from erosion and slowly begin to help the land seem more normal. Waste dumps--filled with lead and mercury and giving off large

Re: [Community_garden] Another look at the landfill garden

2008-02-12 Thread cordalie.benoit
I heard a speaker when I was at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies who was working on reclaiming capped land fills and these sites are not always as scary as they seem. There had always been a fear of planting trees because of the danger of roots disturbing the caps. But it was

[Community_garden] Erika Svendsen is out of the office.

2008-02-12 Thread Erika Svendsen
I will be out of the office starting 02/12/2008 and will not return until 04/07/2008. Thank you for your message. Please note that I am on leave and will not check this email on a regular basis. Please send any URGENT messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will do my best to get back to you