growing food.
Diann Dirks
From: lesliep...@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 12:25 PM
To: Diann Dirks
Cc: dave chappell ; Ray Schutte ; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org ;
Susan Finlayson
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] gardening on road base?
Thanks for noticing the garden
e you some inspiration.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
thegardenladyofga.wordpress.com blogsite
Auburn, Ga.
-Original Message-
From: Ray Schutte
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 5:12 PM
To: 'dave chappell' ; 'Diann Dirks'
Cc: community_garden@list.communit
where to put it. It is then toxic waste unless you
can return it to an asphalt company.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
thegardenladyofga.wordpress.com blogsite
Auburn, Ga.
From: dave chappell
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 6:16 PM
To: Ray Schutte ; 'Diann Dirks'
Cc: Commun
So right Rashid.
Diann Dirks
The Garden Lady of Ga. (thegardenladyofga.wordpress.com)
Permaculture Designer, Auburn, Ga.
-Original Message-
From: K. Rashid Nuri
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 4:17 PM
To: lesliep...@comcast.net ; Susan Finlayson
Cc: community_garden
test the
garden soil in the box for toxins, and dig up some below. I think this would
work well. Worms will work the bio-char into the soil as deep as the roots
would go.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
Auburn CG, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Guy Serbin"
To:
eeds 100 families 48 weeks out of the year -
think about that one! Most CSAs only function about 13 to 20 weeks a year.
MSU has a very competant staff and welcomes questions and tours. They also
do educational programs out of this garden.
Hope this helps.
Good Luck,
Diann Dirks, Auburn, Ga. C
s are fair) are self-evident as good
control for good results and logical. The other behavior is nothing short of
abuse. You might consider the black ball white ball kind of vote with the
membership if some are being over the line, or have it be a vote from the
stearing committee. That should be in the
uting,
find unused land here and there, and get some help with it like this
article:
Best, Diann Dirks, Auburn, Ga.
Turning Unused Acres Green
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
PEACEFUL TAKEOVER In Gowanus, a group from Feedback Farms works on planters
to grow vegetables.
THE city of New York
Check out this website and organization:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m8744k8722244732/
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "John Hintz"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:48 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] Hg, Cr, Cd
rdening
much easier on a smooth surface like a parking lot. :)
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
The Garden Lady
Hillside Gardens
Mothers School of Self-Reliance
678 261-8141
- Original Message -
From: "Lucille Beachdell"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 12:23
Dear Becky and Karen,
This goes along with the concept that a few corporations are trying to
control all food production. And as of a few days ago, I got an email that
said a recent executive order put all food production just got put under
gov't control http://www.naturalnews.com/ . So, what w
absorbed by the leaf. This is a part of Korean Natural Gardening
technology. The article that is listed below is particularly about
commercial fertilizers - chemical sprays, coming from the Scott company.
Worth checking out.
Diann Dirks
Cert. Permaculture Designer
- Original Message
That's wonderful that you do that Ken. I would imagine that "The One Straw
Revolution" approach would do wonders for them. I would also love to see
what you teach. :)
Best,
Diann Dirks
CPD
- Original Message -
From:
To:
Cc: "Elizabeth Thelen"
Sent: Tuesda
Here here Ken!
Besides, as far as I can see with a great deal of research into the subject,
we have LOADS of cancer cures but Big Pharma can't make billions of dollars
on something they can't patent so they use their big profit klout to
suppress those other things - to the degree that they have
Thanks for the tip. I have been saving coffee grounds all winter. I will try
it on one bed I know is infected.
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "Barbara"
To: ;
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] More Slug control - with Sweet Gum
Don't let t
Thanks Ken,
Glad to help.
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "Richard Menn"
To:
Cc: "Diann Dirks" ;
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] snails
Diann is right--as was Ken in his earlier post recommending the Dirt
Doctor'
Sluggo - Amazon has it 2.5 lbs. for about $16 + s&h.
Diann
- Original Message -
From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:15 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] snails
any helpful hints on how to handle snails and slugs without destroying the
environment ?
-- next part -
y are perennial and will grow for years. They are heartier
than tomatoes and longer lived. In that case you want varieties that can
handle being grown in limited continer root space.
Hope that helps.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
NE Georgia (yes, we get really cold weather
ning fish raising and hydroponics. It's great because the fish feed the
vegs and the vegs feed the fish, and both feed people.
Hope this helps,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
The Garden Lady
Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "michael fink"
To:
Sent: Wed
villion or water catchment program, something that will
be a learning experience, and give you a chance to do tours and classes.
Maybe even a solar energy system so you can light your garden at night for
after-work gardeners.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
Auburn, Ga.
- O
Fine, just put a fence around your garden high enough kids can't jump over
it, and have the gate on the far side. Then invite the kids in with a guide
once in awhile so their curiosity is asuaged. Perhaps having a kid's garden
outside the fence might also work so they can check it out without me
methane (stinky). But then, if you have loads of manure, you could
enclose it and capture the methane and use it for heating a greenhouse.
Then, once decomposed sufficiently, it goes on the beds.
Do well,
Diann Dirks
- Original Message -
From: "Jama Crawford"
To: "Dia
nto it.
I definitely would suggest you re-work the 'floor' of the higher beds so they
are water proof and insulated.
Good on using lasagna (sheet mulching) soil building techniques. Just remember
to always use untreated lumber.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer, Ga.
- Original M
g a friend to set it aside for
you. I use cardboard - two layers - under box raised beds to insulate,
protect against weed invasion, and kill grass. This strategy can help you if
you get resourceful.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Ri
you need is
beyond your means.
Hope this helps,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Jama Crawford"
To:
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 11:31 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] cost of hoop house
Dear Colleagues
We are considering in
form of eggs so the cycle repeats.
Oh if we only had access to Rashid's worm pile
You're the man Rashid!
Best,
Diann Dirks
Permaculture Designer, Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -----
From: K. Rashid Nuri
To: Diann Dirks ; Bailey, Sarah ; 'Kasey Henneman' ;
comm
oating of grass
clippings, crushed leaves, or blended kitchen peelings with water).
Hope that helps,
Diann Dirks
Permaculture Designer, Ga.
Good soil n
- Original Message -
From: "Bailey, Sarah"
To: "'Kasey Henneman'" ;
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:
Now that I do consider a violation - it's harassement. I object to
over-marketing from anyone. There needs to be a set of ground rules and the
list serv should be able to accept complaints, look into them, and make
adjudications.
Diann Dirks
CPD, Ga.
- Original Message -
That's a breakthrough. Well done everyone who participated in the campaign.
Diann Dirks
Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "William Maynard"
To:
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 2:13 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] Sacramento - green ordinances passed
all
just
Amen Ken!
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hargesheimer"
To: "Daniel Bowman Simon"
Cc: "Community Gardens USA"
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] in search of definitions of land potentially
suitable for urban agriculture or community garde
Wonderful story. One child, one dream, lives saved. Great~!
Diann Dirks
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hargesheimer"
To: "Community Gardens USA"
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 8:33 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] wonderful story
http://www.americanprofil
r - in greenhouses - even
though it gets to be over 20 below zero there in the winter (their are
located just south of Lansing, Mich.). I think it's pretty successful, don't
you? Amazing.
Diann Dirks
- Original Message -
From: "Guy Serbin"
To: "moises plascencia"
Once again, RIGHT ON Ken! This global warming thing is a SCAM.
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hargesheimer"
To: "Guy Serbin"
Cc: ; "Doug Butdorf"
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Compost application question
Urea and AN are 100%water sol
Exactly so Ken!
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hargesheimer"
To: "Ray Schutte"
Cc: ; "Doug Butdorf"
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Compost application question
No one has a right to harm the water, air or soil of the earth and anyone
d
Interesting, thanks Andy.
Diann Dirks, Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Andy Clark"
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Using Cover crops/living mulches in
smallgarden spaces
Cover crops work really well in small plots.
sprinkler
systems don't work because they have to go all the way around my beds.
Fencing is too pricey for the amount of it I would need. I've tried pee,
moth balls, and sticks all around certain beds. But it isn't working well.
HELP!
Diann Dirks
Auburn, Ga.
- Original
I'm wondering if there isn't some kind of mushroom or fungus that would
handle this. I recently got a blog on this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY Check this out.
Best,
Diann Dirks,
Certified Permaculture Designer
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hargeshei
Excellent advice Judy, couldn't have said it better myself.
As an added amendment to the former advice, I would say that instead of a
shed, you might consider a hoop house green house instead so you get
multiple use out of the space.
Best,
Diann Dirks
- Original Message -
Sounds like it got healthy.
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "moises plascencia"
To: "Guy Serbin"
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Congressional Briefing: Bringing Urban
Agriculture to Life, and some more articles to read
I have a question
Yes, Ken, I had heard that Round-Up can go at least 400 yards from original
spot, but that was just a gardener spraying. When they spray the fields they
use huge machines that roll along and they do not care if the wind is
kicking up. I think it would take using a barrier of some kind to keep it
Dear Ray,
Went on your link and couldn't find any such article. Could you please copy
and paste to the list serv?
Thanks,
Diann Dirks
- Original Message -
From: "Ray Schutte"
To: "'Kristen Beason'" ;
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:33 PM
Subj
rch on
ant un-friendly plants. Or plant peonies which can't bloom without ants and
use the little critters to help you.
http://www.manataka.org/page1949.html
http://www.getipm.com/thebestcontrol/bugstop/control_ant.htm
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
The Gard
Thank you Robyn for forwarding this information. We have been experiencing
some wierd phenomena here of lowered crop productivity and heavy chemtrail
activity linked to massive aluminum, barium and stromtium particulate
infusions from the spraying. Bio-remediation is becoming a major factor in
maller ones were packing sections used in shipping from China and are
no longer available cheap. However I like that size for herbs and containing
smaller sized crops.
Hope that helps.
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "taylar foster"
To:
Sen
Excellent advice Lori,
Diann Dirks
Auburn CG
- Original Message -
From:
To: "Bruce Ruch"
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Starting a new garden
Hi Bruce,
Congrats on starting a community garden in your area! It sounds like
em out of the way each fall. 5 or 6 of the
large size work fine to cover a 4' x 8' bed. I purchased clear 4 mill poly
sheeting at Home depot and secured it over the wire with rocks or rebar as
weights.
Hope that helps.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
The Garden Lad
ng. I think there is terrific mis-management and natural fluxuations in
climate but I also think anything nature presents can be handled with good
tech and the ability to observe nature and work with it.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
- Original Message -
From: "Joan Hu
Really sweet. I love to see people become self-sufficient and reliant. It
basically means freedom, empowerment, and causitiveness over life. This is
how people can rise up and overcome the chaos of modern life - cooperative
coordinated effort in a spirit of love.
Diann Dirks
Mothers School of
ge of such a
wonderful market's place to share and sell.
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden, Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Bedford"
To: "COMFOOD List" ; "Community Garden List"
Cc: "Christopher Bedford"
s which is usually above the normal concept of physical universe
universes and processes. Orgonite is a product of quantum physics.
Just to add my other 2 cents worth.
Best,
Diann
- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Serbin"
To: "Diann Dirks"
Cc: "K. Rashid Nuri"
on a campaign to get people to
be more aware, more knowledgeable, and more discerning about the information
they are confronted with. And to get people to read and research more!
What you are doing is so inspiring. I wish you all success in the New Year.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Des
d record breaking
crops after that. A little piece of history left out of most of the text books.
So, it's lemons or lemonade folks, the trick is knowledge and understanding
(not the same things).
Hope this helps.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer, Auburn, Ga.
- Original Me
ility - using land unused by just
planting on it, here and there. I have heard stories in NY about vacant land
being planted on from the back to the front year after year, and eventually
having the city give them the land because it's already established and
community building.
I agree with Ken, get more land. Don't run 'scarcity' on people who want to
garden when there is so much land out there going to the birds.
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "William Maynard"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Term Limits for C
e that away. If someone comes to
the head of the list and are contacted, they have about 2 weeks to respond.
If they don't, on to the next name on the list. And everyone knows this rule
to begin with. Saves upsets.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden, Ga.
- Original Message -
just think about it), and hard work a couple of times a
year shoveling s..t. Don't we love it. Not to mention grazing in the garden
when the snow peas or cherry tomatoes start to ripen. Yummmy.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
The Garden Lady
- Original Message -
From
Yea, and when you get them on the table call us. LOL
Di
- Original Message -
From: "Fred Conrad"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Heating chicken water
Thanks everyone for the chicken water advice! what I got from this was
1. salt
2. ma
I'm sure you'd have happy chickens if not good layers. They'd have happy
chicken hour and don't care if they lay any eggs or not. Maybe the rooster
would also get a bang out of it. Oh, sorry, LOL!
Di
- Original Message -
From: "Jack Hale"
To:
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:39 PM
Thanks for the information.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer, Auburn, GA.
- Original Message -
From: "Robyn Harvey"
To: "ACGA"
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:00 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] like water for chickens
With regard to watering chickens the
Always thinking in terms of little design inventions, here was my conceptual
thought:
Chicken coup water heating low tech invention by Diann Dirks
Start with 3 shallow aluminum roasting pans, the kind that you can get in
the grocery store for oven baking - the least deep ones you can find
Try putting newspaper or cardboard under your compost and leave holes in it
for the worms. They will find their way up.
Best,
Diann Dirks,
Permaculture Designer
Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -
From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:10 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] should
usion.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Auburn CG, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Diann Dirks"
To: "B Hardy" ;
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] cement board for raised beds?
In answer to the question about using cement for raised bed
o work
the bed, but use the open ones for marigolds or other bug repelling herbs or
plants. They are very versatile. And cheap.
Hope this helps.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
Auburn CG, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "B Hardy"
To:
Sent: Sunday, September 12,
ss of the bad ass self-serving
among us who only think of their own tomorrows. They are in the minority and
we can raise our voices and be louder and longer squeeky wheels.
So, this list-serv of people who do understand are the lights in the
darkness and I hail you all.
Love,
Diann Dirks
- Or
d defending. A CG
can be a point of sanity in a crazy world, and a place of peace and soul
healing. It can be a gathering space, and a friend-making place. And it can
be the source of safe and healthy food when we never know when we go into a
grocery store if the food we are buying has been
Glad to be of help. Education is such a key part of what we do.
Best,
Diann Dirks
ACG
- Original Message -
From: "Joan Huyser-Honig"
To: "'Diann Dirks'" ; "'Karen Jones'"
;
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Comm
and child products,
using domestic animals such as dogs for multiple uses, rope and broom
making, meat preservation as smoking, brining, jerking, wood working, wheel
and barrel making, glass blowing and ceramic and pottery, toy making,
furniture making, paper and basket making, and a host
on my own first hand experience for many
years. That being said, I appreciate her willingness to put out her
viewpoint because so many people just mumble and delete rather than stand up
for their viewpoints. Many of her posts have been truly enlightened and I
count her as a valuable member of thi
lly friable soil. That's why we recommend the
raised beds because you can control the soil better, can have a deep growing
media almost instantly by filling with purchased organic soil, and keep the
soil from traveling when we get torrential rains.
Hope that helps.
Diann Dirks
Auburn Commun
vegs and
fruit, and classes on preserving food, you could go a long way towards that
goal. I wouldn't say 5x20 is too big. If it is too much, there are always
needs at the local food pantries.
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden
- Original Message -
From: "Elizabeth Takakjian&qu
Thank you Robyn, very informative. We have two kinds of these little nasty
bugs in our garden.
I hand pick them when I can find them. But they are illusive.
Diann
- Original Message -
From: "Robyn Harvey"
To: "ACGA Listserv"
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 9:50 AM
Subject: [Community_ga
Though it isn't fun, the only luck I've had with squash bugs is hand
picking. And watch out for those little rows of bronze colored eggs on top
or under the leaves and along the stems, and even on the blossoms. If you
don't get them, they will take over. The eggs roll off by finger rolling and
Yes, but if you have had to clean up after unsupervised kids, and had to
handle parents who think their little angels can do no wrong, you would have
to have some limitations too. Perhaps "Kick their asses out" would be more
current, but don't think that would win any friends for the garden eith
with glass
greenhouses?
I'd really appreciate the help on this one besides my own research.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
Auburn Community Garden
___
The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one
small amounts of oats or spelt grain which can be used in a home or small
operation situation? Or know how to do it by hand?
Thanks,
Diann Dirks
Permaculture Designer
___
The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's
Anyone out there
thinking of doing something like that? May be a way to help turn around
their economy as well as make use of something already there.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "James Godsil"
To: "Com Food" ; "Commu
I love it. Stock it with edibles and let em have at it. Maybe they'll let
the other stuff alone.
Di
- Original Message -
From: "Pattie Baker"
To: "'Mary Reilly-Kliss'" ; "'Margaret Shields'"
;
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Discouraging vandalism
This is very disturbing. It parallels some of the liberal agenda I've been
seeing coming out of congress in this country to 'redefine' - always a red
flag for me - agriculture as one size fits all. If you wanted to really
lower population, wouldn't you make food such a hard thing to come by, and
No real solution Annie, but you might check the pressure. Sometimes putting
too much pressure on the line overloads the delicate connections.
Best,
Diann Dirks
- Original Message -
From: "Annie Preston"
To:
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:56 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] Le
eople
would be willing to pay to attend. Promote that a portion of the proceeds go
to the land fund.
My ideas. Anyone out there have good fund raising schemes?
Best,
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Mana"
To: "Pohl-Kosbau, Leslie"
s problem. Just be careful how you do it. Also, if you use the
plastic sheeting, don't use a sharp pitchfork or dig down too far into the
soil. I'd advise sheet mulching/no-till for the soil.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
- Original Message -
From: "k
Here is the one we use. It's also the rules list. Very simple.:
Best,
Diann Dirks
Director, Auburn Community Garden Project, Ga.
AUBURN COMMUNITY GARDEN MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
NAME:
ADDRESS: Zip
idn't want to, and that was their choice, but I was
amazed that most were very excited about it, even if I had to help them put
the dirt into the planter. I had adults come by after watching and wanting
to do it too. It was so much fun.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden Project
Mo
Dear Mary,
I believe if it is well composted, it should be OK. Elephants are not meat
eaters, they are vegetarians. It should be good to use. I wouldn't hesitate
to do so, and would think I was fortunate to be able to have a good source
of organic material.
Best,
Diann Dirks
- Ori
Thank you Cynthia, couldn't have said it better myself.
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden Project, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Cynthia Price"
To: "karen jones"
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] School Gardens and
We're bucking a big bucks
system that has a lot of political clout. Money talks. But so can we. :)
Best,
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden Project, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hargesheimer"
To: "karen jones"
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:16 AM
S
lifetool it leaves them with for the future - how to grow one's
own food and what to do with it once grown. We've lost so much of that basic
life information it's scarey.
Sincerely,
Diann Dirks
Dean - Mothers School of Self-Reliance
Auburn, Georgia
- Original Message -
For that large a garden spot, I would imagine people will need to come 2 or
3 times a week to water, weed, plant, and harvest. Anything less than that
and it will get overweedy, dry, and wasted vegetables.
Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden Project, Ga.
- Original Message -
From
..@comcast.net for scheduled or arranged programs.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer, Auburn, Ga.
- Original Message -
From: "becky stinson"
To: "Joan Huyser-Honig"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Bes
icks to plastic, also more
aesthetic and fun.
I'd love to hear from you if you are creating such a garden. Maybe I can
help. :) And if you use my advice, please send pictures.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Permaculture Designer and Director, Auburn Community Garden Project, Ga.
didi...@comcast.ne
r yet, cover
it with layers of cardboard, put in raised beds, and let the weeds die out
by themselves. Chemicals are not the answer.
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
- Original Message -
From: "Sharon Gordon"
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:55 PM
Subject: [C
You know I seem to recall an article in Mother Earth News about 25 years ago
about using hay bales, which break down over the winter, as housing that was
self heating. It's the only data I have about using compost heat. For one
thing, if you draw off the heat from composting - especially if you
ot to mention
every cat within a 10 block area. :)
Diann Dirks
- Original Message -
From: "James Godsil"
To: "Community Gardens USA"
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] Fish Effluence and Fish Body Parts in OurCompost
Piles
Dear Al
tches water in rain and
allows it to filter down into the soil.
It has worked wonderfully for me in my very hilly space.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Dir. Auburn Community Garden Project, Ga.
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From: "Claire Lorch"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:04 PM
Subject: [C
A, (use your
imagination), even local gangs are resources (hey, it's their turf, and they
can benefit from the food for their families).
Hope this helps,
Diann Dirks,
Dir. Auburn Community Garden Project, Ga.
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From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:58
ried grits (which they seem to enjoy eating and it
doesn't kill them), boric acid mixed with bacon grease crumbled over the hills
(they move next door a few feet away), water high pressure spray, all to no
avail. It seems the hills just proliferate and get bigger. I'm sick of being
bitt
bubblewrap, so I can try different approaches.
Get back to me on this, and I will report success or failure through the
winter.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
Director, Auburn Community Garden Project
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the rain run-off and directs it off the beds
keeping the raised portions freer of the root rotting extra moisture. And
with the mulch in the paths, it holds back erosion as well. Hope this helps.
Best,
Diann Dirks
Certified Permaculture Designer
Director, Auburn Community Garden Project
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would keep your flooding down to a better and more handleable
situation.
Hope this helps.
Best, Diann Dirks
Auburn Community Garden Project
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From: "Robyn Harvey"
To: "Rafael Vallejo" ; "Don Boekelheide"
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, Septembe
t know if
they have other animals there (perhaps a cat or two). And they are in the
city, right near downtown Decater, with universities and residential all
around them. It's lovely.
Best, Diann Dirks
Director, Auburn Community Garden Project, Auburn, Ga.
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