RE: [cg] Re: coffee grounds

2003-01-30 Thread Honigman, Adam
John, Lookit. On weekends I sometimes fill in behind the bar of a restaurant where I work with these great wide-backed Mexican and Central American guys. You go into any restaurant kitchen in NYC (Italian, Chinese or haut Francais) and you'll find these guys who, because of where they have been

RE: [cg] Washington State Governor Gary Locke - Sell him on Comm unity Gar dens

2003-01-29 Thread Honigman, Adam
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:27 PM To: Honigman, Adam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [cg] Washington State Governor Gary Locke - Sell him on Community Gar dens You might be interested that the Governor spent time visiting and working in a Cultivating Community

RE: [cg] CAUTION - Free Compostable Coffee

2003-01-29 Thread Honigman, Adam
: Honigman, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [cg] Free Compostable Coffee Grounds from Starbucks Friends, I was just talking to a P-Patch community gardener from Seattle who says that his local Starbucks makes coffee grounds

RE: [cg] Free Compostable Coffee Grounds from Starbucks

2003-01-29 Thread Honigman, Adam
Hey, If your local cafe will do the right thing, then use them. If a big player wants to be socially responsible, why not. In fact, if we hit our veggie markets, health food stores that have alot of compostable material, why not? This valuable material sitting in landfills is killing us. If

[cg] Community Garden Organization

2003-01-24 Thread Honigman, Adam
Generally, I send journalists and anyone who is interested in community garden organizations to the American Community Gardening Association website: http://www.communitygarden.org http://www.communitygarden.org . Reading through the links should give you enough information to come up with some

RE: [cg] Compost bins

2003-01-24 Thread Honigman, Adam
We have some of the world's best composters attached to this listserve - the Seattle Community Garden composters are among some of the best of the world - give 'em a millon flowers and some elephant dung, they produce some of the sweetest compost I've ever seen. And their run of the mill stuff is

RE: [cg] tours and training in placemaking

2003-01-22 Thread Honigman, Adam
Harriet, Do you have any community gardeners who are lecturing as part of your place making class curriculum? The last time I looked, there weren't. Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Harriet Festing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:56 PM

RE: [cg] (no subject)

2003-01-21 Thread Honigman, Adam
Iris, For starters, you should make yourself a pot of tea tonight and start reading through the American Community Gardening Association website and its links - http://www.communitygarden.org http://www.communitygarden.org . There are wonderful phrases, like building community from the ground

[cg] Respect for Worms

2003-01-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
From middle aged gardener guy's perspective, what's better than a NYC garden full of worms? While I'm at work, watching the Superbowl, sleeping, paying bills, at a concert, making dinner, on the subway, or engaging in myriad quotidian activities, these primeval little beasts are aerating and

RE: [cg] Community Land Trusts

2003-01-16 Thread Honigman, Adam
Sorry guys, Somehow the Trust for Public Land website didn't stick to my earlier message: http://www.tpl.org/ http://www.tpl.org/ Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Honigman, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL

[cg] Another Educational Program - This Time in Arkansas

2003-01-16 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, This was sent out by the Arkansas Hunger Coaltion's director, Hope Coulter. There are some great things happening in Arkansas! Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Hope Coulter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [cg] teaching resources

2003-01-14 Thread Honigman, Adam
Here's a quick lesson. Talk to the kids, adults, whomever about the basic fact that most food in this country is transported between 1500 and 2500 mile by trucks, using fossil fuel. Give them maps and send them through the aisles of a supermarkets with the task of putting together a meal with

[cg] RE: (Public.Spaces) Community Garden Programs

2003-01-13 Thread Honigman, Adam
Ms Vaughen, I have taken the liberty of forwarding your message to the American Community Gardening Association listserve in order that community garden organizations and coordinators in your area can contact you directly. FYI - The American Community Gardening Association represents over 1000

RE: [cg] successful models or ideas

2003-01-10 Thread Honigman, Adam
As Tip O'Neal, wise old politician and Speaker of the US House of Representatives used to say, All politics is local. Which means, within the context of community gardening, you have to know the people of the area you are trying to serve, help, or design for in order to develop the best

RE: [cg] ACGA PSA availability

2003-01-06 Thread Honigman, Adam
The best way to get your hands on the PSA will probably be to contact Anna Wasecha ( ACGA communications chair)when she gets back from Japan later this month, Ellen Kirby (ACGA president). I'm also copying Rick Baciagalupi, the filmaker, on this as well. I've copied both (being the nudge-er

RE: [cg] Graduate Studies of Community Gardens

2003-01-03 Thread Honigman, Adam
You may want to talk to the Garden Mosaic folks. As many are still on academic break you may want to contact them later in the month. Here's the general address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Garden Mosaics Fernow Hall 16 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Here's the website ( which seems to be, in large

RE: [cg] community gardens in albany, NY

2003-01-03 Thread Honigman, Adam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]I don't know if any of the currently existing community gardens in Albany NY were founded by Nettie Stevens, but here's the link to Albany's Captial District Community Gardens (CDCG) , which was founded in 1972: http://www.cdcg.org/ Here's CDCG's complete

FW: [cg] re: info on Prison Gardens (Beth Waitkus)

2002-12-26 Thread Honigman, Adam
-Original Message- From: Ashley March [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 11:04 AM To: Honigman, Adam Subject: Re: [cg] re: info on Prison Gardens (Beth Waitkus) Greyston Foundation a non-profit organization, which runs a community garden project in Yonkers New

RE: [cg] NYTimes.com Article: Mayor's Proposal Envisions Lower Ma nhattan as an Urban Hamlet

2002-12-18 Thread Honigman, Adam
In all honesty, the incorporation of a community garden in the new proposed high rent Urban Hamlet of the NY Times article would have to be under some kind of ecological, educational or volunteerist aegis: community managed public green space would be the tack we would have to take. With the

RE: [cg] re: info on Prison Gardens (Beth Waitkus)

2002-12-18 Thread Honigman, Adam
Prison gardens have been a listserve topic for a long time. If you can make the time, please write something about your program so we can learn from your project. Thanking you in advance for your efforts, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: David Hackenberry [mailto:[EMAIL

[cg] A Missive from the Bronx

2002-12-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: More Gardens is in the house! again! -- Please tell your friends-- Sunday, December 22 9:55 AM Church of the Immaculate Conception 150th and

[cg] FW: CYBERGARDENS: Report on Hostos-Crimmins Garden, how you can h elp

2002-12-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends. This from Mark Leger of More Gardens! Please feel free to contact him off list, at the e-mail address in the cc line. for suggestions as to how you can work to influence the out-of-NYC development organization that South Bronx churches ( an otherwise fine group) is working with. Best

RE: [cg] NYC community garden research

2002-12-16 Thread Honigman, Adam
I've sent you some personal contact information off-list re zoning and gardens in Hell's Kitchen. Before you get down to NYC, you must read Malve von Hassel's The Struggle for Eden: CommunityGardens in New York by Malve von Hassell, Bergin Garvey; Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002 which was

RE: [cg] county/city funding

2002-12-10 Thread Honigman, Adam
My guess is that most US community gardening groups receive very little, if anything, in the way of direct city or council funding and more in the way of in-kind, facility use or resource sharing ( trucks, soil amendment, use of personnel.) Funding for community gardens during the seventies was

[cg] Raise beds

2002-12-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
garden book? thnaks for all the help :) now to buy a few and attempt to estimate the amount of compost to order from our recycling company. (free except for the truck) :) any suggestions on what to how to make raised beds last more than 3-4 years? From: Honigman, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED

[cg] Spirit of Oklahoma - A Gardener's Thanksgiving Update from New Y ork

2002-12-02 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, Walking uptown on 9th Avenue from the Clinton Community Garden, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, I noticed that many of the American flags raised or hung from the red brick tenements that line the avenue were still there - some alas, in rough shape, flag etiquette being what it is. A

RE: [cg] Teaching Gardens

2002-11-27 Thread Honigman, Adam
As always, a great place to start is the ACGA website. The links, organized by subject should give you the information you're looking for: http://www.communitygarden.org/links/index.html http://www.communitygarden.org/links/index.html You may want to go to the archives of this listserve and do

[cg] Idaho Falls PlansLink for Accessible Garden Beds

2002-11-26 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, As its getting to be the time when gardening quiets down and maintenance and construction projects become more possible, you may want to look at this page from the Idaho Fall's Community garden for Accessible Garden beds for seniors or the wheel chair bound. We have a wheelchair

RE: [cg] Idaho Falls PlansLink for Accessible Garden Beds

2002-11-26 Thread Honigman, Adam
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Honigman, Adam Subject: Re: [cg] Idaho Falls PlansLink for Accessible Garden Beds Adam/CGers We are just finished the actual construction of our ADA approved raised beds for our garden. One bed will be dedicated for the disabled gardener and the other bed will be for children

[cg] And you thought your Aunt Mildred had travelled the farthest...

2002-11-25 Thread Honigman, Adam
Some food security information to talk at your Thanksgiving table when as you serve your garden grown veggies and serve your CSA raised Turkey, courtesy of Hope Coulter or the Arkansas Hunger Coalition. Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Hope Coulter

[cg] Problems with dogwoods ?

2002-11-22 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, This query is from Brooklyn Mike Steffens, a buddy. Please reply to him and the list if you know something about this problem, A Million thanks, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:05 AM To:

[cg] ! Call to Protest Bulldozing of Hostos-Crimmins Garden

2002-11-21 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the ACGA and other folks subscribed to this listserve who called or wrote the NYC South Bronx Churches (or other national affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation) to rethink their decision to bulldoze the Hostos-Crimmins

[cg] LES NYC Community Gardening

2002-11-21 Thread Honigman, Adam
: Honigman, Adam Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:17 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: ! Call to Protest Bulldozing of Hostos-Crimmins Garden Friends, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the ACGA and other folks subscribed to this listserve who called

RE: [cg] Re: Let Us Hear About Your Garden Garden Program

2002-11-19 Thread Honigman, Adam
What a great post! A baby community garden filled with children. It doesn't get better than this! Thank you for sharing this message and the best of luck! Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Shelly Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:49 PM To:

[cg] FW: Holiday Card - Fundraiser

2002-11-18 Thread Honigman, Adam
-Original Message- From: Honigman, Adam Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:51 PM To: 'Alliums' Subject: Holiday Card - Fundraiser For starters, anyone who wants to do community garden cards for this season ( and the frost is on the pumpkin) can probably get some Currier Ives clip art

[cg] RE: Wild Dream Lists

2002-11-13 Thread Honigman, Adam
Still digesting your ideas - thinking about the how to parts. I'm more of a practical implementation guy, so at some point I'll write about how my neighbohood managed to get a working farmer's market placed into a bonus plaza three blocks away from Carnegie Hall, survived a redesign of the plaza

[cg] PLEASE include your membership in your budget and grant proposal s!

2002-11-12 Thread Honigman, Adam
Fundraising tip: It is de rigeur to use the words, please and thank you frequently and sincerely in any request for money, work, volunteerism, charitable contributions, anything. While Fundraiser's Edge, and other software programs, are now being used as ways of improving efficiency in

RE: [cg] Madame, I'm Adam, not...

2002-11-12 Thread Honigman, Adam
Thank you for your encomium. But having escaped the WTC in '93 and made a fortuitous job choice to stay out of it in 2001, please do not tempt providence - or lightning bolts. Gotcha fooled, I see, In all honesty, I'm really limited, and occasionally grouchy, but I write alot to tempt the real

RE: [cg] Sacramento's Mandella Garden Update

2002-11-07 Thread Honigman, Adam
Bummer! Re: gardeners want the developer to do a human health risk assessment. Being a paralegal now: If the State of California certified the Ron Mandella Garden as being polluted enough to condemn it for gardening, there should be reports on file with your municipality and the California State

[cg] Slow food social politics and a plea for cloning

2002-11-07 Thread Honigman, Adam
Paco, And I've been known to buy some expensive pieces of cheese m'self. But there is a difference between eating and consuming thoughtfully and conspicuously and trying to do something valuable for others and our society. On line at Zabar's (think Fauchon's or Fortnum and Mason's) I can

[cg] slow food prices - Buy Locally

2002-11-07 Thread Honigman, Adam
I don't mind paying top dollar for first quality organic produce from a CSA or farmer's market, especially if I sense that the Mexican workers he brought in the truck with him are treated OK. I see NOFA, and the guy with the rough hands says, please or por favor occasionally, when his guy hauls

RE: [cg] Slow Food co-optation Question

2002-11-05 Thread Honigman, Adam
Laurie, We're glad that you've found real value in the discussions that have taken place on this listerve. You will agree that the organization that sponsors this free community gardeners list serve deserves all our support Are you a member of the ACGA, and if so, have you sent in your

[cg] Help 2 Community Gardens in the South Bronx!

2002-11-05 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, This missive was sent out by Mark Leger, a community garden activist you may have met at the NYC ACGA convention last July. As I understand it, these Bronx gardens were not part of the Community Garden Settlement and therefore your input to the NYC and national affiliates of the

[cg] Reaching Out To Chicago the Midwest and Oregon to Help 2 Communi ty Gardens in the South Bronx!

2002-11-05 Thread Honigman, Adam
in the Bronx, NY. Read the stuff on the situation so you sound briefed. Thanking you in advance for your brilliant work for community gardiners, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Mark Leger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:00 PM To: Honigman, Adam Subject: Re: [cg

RE: [cg] Slow Food

2002-11-05 Thread Honigman, Adam
OK - Sounds like a nice hobby, this movement. When Slow Food becomes a movement to actually save family farms by doing the work to support them politically through zoning for the preservation of farm land, by supporting real farmers markets by advocacy and their food dollars, when it works to

[cg] BULLDOZER ALERT: NOW IS THE TIME

2002-11-04 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, An unedited dispatch from the front... Be sure that you hug your garden as you lock it up tonight and go and vote for viable political candidates tommorrow whose arms can be twisted on issues like open green space and food security. Adam Honigman -Original Message- From:

[cg] FW: environmental project

2002-10-29 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, This query was sent to the Clinton Community Garden's website today by Tomas Samoska, an English language teacher in what I believe is a Lithuanian middle school. Mr. Samoska tells us that they are currently doing a project on environmental safety and animal protection and are looking

RE: [cg] starting out

2002-10-28 Thread Honigman, Adam
Pete, The first thing I'd do is contact the great community garden folks down in Portland. Not only do they know how to play community garden, they know how to do it in your region: http://www.parks.ci.portland.or.us/Parks/CommunityGardens.htm

[cg] A Unique Community Garden News Release from a NYC Elected Offici al

2002-10-23 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, I've been known to dis NYC elected officials for their actions against community gardens in their communities. Many of you heard my griping at the American Community Gardening Association Convention last July at NYC's Columbia University. However, some elected officials do listen - and

RE: [cg] Prison farms for Food Pantries Soup Kitchens

2002-10-21 Thread Honigman, Adam
The cookbooks all sold out (they were $5.00) along with the honey from our hive, and a goodly number of t-shirts ( both in regular t- and in black sleeveless) emblazoned with our logo - Gardener from Hell's Kitchen. However, the best garden t-shirt I've seen is the commemorative Seattle

RE: [cg] concerning farms run by prisoners - Food Security

2002-10-18 Thread Honigman, Adam
Re: This is an IDEA that is making the rounds again (having prisoners work in some sort of farm setting. Make sure that it is not done with evil intentions and Amnesty International may give out awards to USA Prisons rather than dis them as being the American Gulag. I think the issue is not evil

RE: [cg] land options

2002-10-18 Thread Honigman, Adam
Great story. Thanks for sharing it Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Jim Call [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:30 PM To: John Verin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cg] land options This past spring, an elderly gentleman was out walking about

RE: [cg] Fwd: Project Plan

2002-10-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
The one thing that makes community gardening different than any other kind of good works is that you need to get recruit other folks to get into the madness. You also have to learn to ask good, detailed questions. Before we go further in answering your question, please let us know where you

RE: [cg] Columbia, SC Community Garden Project

2002-10-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
Some really fast suggestions, Sam: 1) Set an evening aside at your computer. Make a pot of coffee ( or whatever adult beverage you drink) fill your printer with paper and read everything on the American Community Gardening Association web page and links. Seriously, the amount of free content on

RE: [cg] land options

2002-10-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
Erin, Wow, you have several jobs on your plate here: Your produce gleaning project is quite fine and sounds like it takes a great deal of coordination to glean over 17,000 lbs of produce for your food bank and community kitchens. My question: Are any of you guys farmers? Because, ideally

RE: [cg] Milwaukee, WI Urban Agriculture Youth Employment Project

2002-10-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
Here's the web link to the NYC Council for the Environment Green Market Program. http://www.cenyc.org/HTMLGM/maingm.htm Sometimes trying to get a call through to Greenmarket is like dealing with the post office ( that's because they're understaffed - but they're great folks.) However, if you

RE: [cg] Emailing: gardening.htm

2002-10-16 Thread Honigman, Adam
This is a VERY interesting study. Thanks, Gary, for sharing it with all of us. Maybe we should have it linked to the ACGA site as a reference. Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Gary Goosman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:48 PM To: ACGA

RE: [cg] recruiting board members etc.

2002-10-15 Thread Honigman, Adam
Some days, I think it's 99/44/100ths to Got dragooned on my garden's steering committee again, and these people know how I get. So many gardeners, so little tolerance for paperwork or meetings - I try to say that it's the same as taking out the garbage...but I'm not a good enough sophist to

RE: [cg] RE:Atlanta Community Garden

2002-10-15 Thread Honigman, Adam
Fabienne, You're lucky. Fred Conrad is one of the best community garden resources in your region and perhaps in North America. Fred is a very nice and busy guy. Be nice to Fred - if anyone deserves to be taken out to lunch, or even brought a cup of coffee or sumptin', it's this man ( a drink

RE: [cg] Hi World - How are your community gardens?

2002-10-14 Thread Honigman, Adam
-Original Message- From: Tamsin Salehian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:13 PM To: Honigman, Adam; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [cg] Hi World - How are your community gardens? Hi! I just wanted to let everyone know that our community garden at Fisherman's

RE: [cg] planning for more gardens

2002-10-14 Thread Honigman, Adam
Bill, Wow, what a bunch of loaded questions. There are about 838 community gardens in NYC (more or less - soon to be less.) The last time I looked, the population was slightly more than eight million. So that's one community garden per 9,546.53 in a city where there is, in aggregate 6.2 acres

[cg] How Is Gardening in the Phoenix Area?

2002-10-13 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, As droughts and water shortages have become more and more common throughout the US, we need to glean wisdom from the dry zone experts. Please tell us about your communtiy gardens and how dealt with the weather, the soil and built your community, from the ground up. Best wishes, Adam

Non Attachment Version - Fwd: [cg] Let Us Hear About Your Garden Garden Program

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
just very quick, let me tell you that the Greyston Community Garden was very busy this garden season. In partnership with the Technology computer center, we develop a summer camp called Enviro-tech, we used a convination of environmental issues and tecnology and created our name. The

[cg] Let's Hear About Your Canadian Garden!

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, There are some really nice things happening in Canadian Community Gardens - let's hear about them (there's even a community garden up there sited amidst permafrost!) Enquiring minds need to know, Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Honigman, Adam [mailto

[cg] FW: How Is Gardening in the Phoenix Area Drier Areas of Califor nia?

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
-Original Message- From: Honigman, Adam Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:14 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: How Is Gardening in the Phoenix Area? Friends, As droughts and water shortages have become more and more common throughout the US, we need

[cg] How Are We Gardening In The South Texas?

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
So friends, How are your gardens growing south of the Mason Dixon line? What new things did you learn last summer about people, plants and community? Please let us know. Best wishes, Adam Honigman __ The American Community Gardening

[cg] Midwesterners Have Garden Secrets

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, I know you midwesterners learned things over the summer that the rest of your community gardening comrades across the nation need to hear. Don't be taciturn. Drop us a line. Best wishes, Adam Honigman __ The American Community

[cg] Pacific Northwest Gardeners - Drop Us A Note

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
OK - We know that you make great compost, but how did your gardens grow this summer? Any thoughts as you are putting up your pesto? Please share them with us, Best wishes, Adam Honigman __ The American Community Gardening Association

[cg] How's Your Community Garden Doing in the Far Western States?

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, Please let us know how your garden grew last summer, what your harvest looked like or didn't look like and what you're planning for the spring. There are secrets up there in the Rockies. Please share some of your wisdom with all of us. Best wishes, Adam Honigman

[cg] Hi World - How are your community gardens?

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
Dear Friends who live outside of North America, My mind was blown last summer when I met community gardeners from Sarajevo who had sniper fire as one of their growing conditions. Hopefully your garden conditions were nowhere near as dire. You undoubtedly have a wealth of stories to share with

[cg] RE: CASA Community Garden meets the Ripper

2002-10-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
on. Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Jim Call [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:36 PM To: Honigman, Adam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CASA Community Garden meets the Ripper Adam and All: Our Alabama garden experienced its worst production

RE: [cg] KSU contacts?

2002-10-08 Thread Honigman, Adam
Amanda, While the KSU library may not be as helpful as you would like in getting copies of the cg theses/dissertations ( copyright concerns, most likely)here is the academic directory which could access the professors who mentored the cg theses and dissertations.

[cg] Another Paper for the Archive

2002-10-03 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, This guy, Jeremy Person @ the Calif. State Polytechnic University, Pomona queried the listserve last spring. Here's his planning seminar paper. Best wishes, Adam Honigman http://www.csupomona.edu/~jlperson/la576/cg_leadership.htm

RE: [cg] Great gardening info from everyone....

2002-10-03 Thread Honigman, Adam
Deborah, I know that you've soil tested the super alkaline land that your're interested in placing raised beds on to grow. The massive composting project that you're about to start to help reclaim this property will astonish all of us as the 7th wonder of the world , I'm sure. ;=) In all

[cg] Seattle's Million Flower Compost Delivered to WTC Area Liberty C ommunity Garden Sat. Sept. 28th

2002-10-02 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, You'll be reading more coverage of this remarkable event later, but this story is too amazing to sit on. Adam Honigman (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nwgardens/89202_compost01.shtml) SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Tuesday, October 1, 2002 9/11 FLOWER VIGIL COMPOST ENRICHES NEW YORK

RE: [cg] soils testing on urban lots

2002-10-02 Thread Honigman, Adam
Bill, $700 seems a trifle too dear... Here is the website for the Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Laboratory at theUniversity of Massachussets - Amherst. They do a great US $ 8.00 soil test (per sample) which includes all heavy metals. They also do a very complex test for every nutrient known to

RE: [cg] FW: I'm interested in community gardening

2002-09-30 Thread Honigman, Adam
Dear Ms. Kennedy, 1) You have not gone out on a limb, you're come to the right place. Please make yourself a nice pot of tea, put some paper in your printer and go to the American Community Gardening Association website where the master gardeners of this organization have organized a wealth of

RE: [cg] FW: I'm interested in community gardening

2002-09-30 Thread Honigman, Adam
No matter how you spell it ( fundraising or fund raising). it's integral to all community garden efforts. Make ongoing fundraising integral to your plannng. Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Honigman, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 6:14

[cg] After the Million Flower Compost Tomorrow - Yoga Meditation

2002-09-27 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, If you're up for more NYC Garden celebrating tomorrow after Seattle's Million Flower Compost is mixed into the flower beds at Battery Park City ( in rembrance of 9/11 on the occasion of the rededication of the Battery Park Community Gardens.) Afterwards... Take the subway uptown to the

[cg] Call for papers on Connections and Potential Contributions of P lanning to the Community Food System

2002-09-25 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, This was forwarded to me by the nice Project for Public Spaces Folks - This would be a place where community gardeners/farmers market/food security workers could shine if they had the time to do a little rhetorical song and dance. Best wishes, Adam Honigman Journal of Planning

RE: [cg] NY garden settlement

2002-09-25 Thread Honigman, Adam
Oliver, Two responses: 1) The gardener: The City of New York has recognized the significance of community gardens in the same way the the United States of America recognizes it's native Americans :No more smallpox filled blankets anymore, we'll say nice things about you in the press, but

RE: [cg] Help - books?

2002-09-24 Thread Honigman, Adam
Keriwidden, These two out-of-print books are marvelous are on my bookshelf at home: Jobb. J. 1979. The Complete Book of Community Gardening. Morrow Quill, NY. Naimark, S. 1982. A Handbook of Community Gardening. By Boston Urban Gardeners. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. If you can get

RE: RE: [cg] AG settlement is unfair!

2002-09-23 Thread Honigman, Adam
David, Gwenne et al, Those of you who were in town for the first day of the ACGA conference last July and attended the City Hall press conference by NYC Parks chair Addabo,probably got an earful from me on the disgraceful scuttling of Intro 206, an albeit imperfect piece of legislation whose

RE: [cg] Salsa, baby

2002-09-21 Thread Honigman, Adam
Diane recipe and canning instructions are world class. Here are a few more recipe's to look at while you're sterilizing the jars: http://mexicanfood.tqn.com/cs/miscsalsas/index.htm http://mexicanfood.tqn.com/cs/miscsalsas/index.htm Happy salsa! Adam -Original Message- From:

[cg] Garden Settlement Press Conference Video

2002-09-18 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, Technology when it works is pretty amazing. This link will connect you Mayor Bloomberg's Sept 18th, 2002 garden settlement press release with a link video in 56 or 300 K of the press conference ( I viewed it with Windows media player, but it should work with other PC media players. )

[cg] Full City List of Community Gardens Under the NYC Garden Settleme nt

2002-09-18 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, Before, I sent you all a Manhattan garden link on the settlemen. You should be able to get all the NYC borough garden links through this attachment: http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2002/sep/sep18a_02.html Cheers, Adam Honigman __

RE: [cg] Raising Chickens in Community Gardens

2002-09-17 Thread Honigman, Adam
Bill, Don't keep chickens in our NY garden ( NYC ordinance). Many cities have these, so you may want to check Green Bay's rules on livestock. The best chicken houses that I have seen in is in Little Rock's Dunbar Community Garden run by the AUGER folks ( I kid you not...they have built a new

RE: [cg] writing a plan/proposal for a new garden in Arkansas

2002-09-11 Thread Honigman, Adam
Ms. Elliott, What cheerful news for a cloudy day! A few suggestions: 1) You will find a wealth of community gardening information on the American Community Gardening Association website. Set yourself up with a pot of coffee ( or whatever your favorite beverage is) click on all of the links and

[cg] Who Was (Is) Melvin Hazen?

2002-09-11 Thread Honigman, Adam
This one is probably for Judy Tiger... Was doing a name search for a Melvin Hazen for a legal project and the community garden by that name near Cleveland Park in Washington, DC came up. Mine is a securities attorney, who is (was) the garden Melvin? Best wishes, Adam Honigman

[cg] FW: CYBERGARDENS: Clinton Community Garden on National TV This Th ursday

2002-09-10 Thread Honigman, Adam
FYI: This message is from Annie Chadwick, CCG Chair. Check you local PBS station for date and time for Wild TV. Best wishes, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

FW: [cg] Local food systems abroad - Gardening Under Sniper Fire/ good links

2002-09-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, Sorry that my links from my home AOL didn't transfer well. Here they are as a supplement to my original message: a)the ACGA: http://www.communitygardnen.org b) City Farmer: http://www.cityfarmer.org/ c) Goran's Sarajevo site: http://sarajevo.bih.tripod.com/sarajevo.html d) And

[cg] Thanks 9/11 Sections from NYC Newspapers

2002-09-09 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, How Wednesday, 9/1/2002 looks from New York: a) Like last year, we have another primary election but this time it will be the 10th. b) While there will be services and commemorations, Wednesday will be another workday ( those who still have jobs are not going to miss a day's pay.)

RE: [cg] Clinton Community Garden

2002-09-04 Thread Honigman, Adam
Thanks for the kudos. The Clinton Community Garden is the result of 24 years of neighborhood involvement and political support, visionary worker-volunteers like founder Mallory Abrahmson who laid out much of the garden and a sucession of amazing volunteers; the early help of TPL, Greenthumb, the

RE: [cg] Hunger in America: What's Wrong With This Picture - Lemo naide from Lemons

2002-09-04 Thread Honigman, Adam
://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Honigman, Adam Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [cg] Hunger in America: What's Wrong With This Picture? Friends, Right now, as community gardeners

RE: [cg] Shed site

2002-09-03 Thread Honigman, Adam
Here is the link that John Herndon shared with us. I checked it and it works: http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/Extension/ExtPubs/PlanList97.htm#Greenhouse The secondary link to Machinery and Supply Storage Plans works as well and if you scroll down on that one to General Barn Utility Sheds, you

[cg] Hunger in America: What's Wrong With This Picture?

2002-09-03 Thread Honigman, Adam
Friends, Right now, as community gardeners wait to see what will happen to the 146 odd community gardens whose fate is being negotiated in the Attorney General's lawsuit, this article appeared on page 2 of the NY Daily News ( the same paper that called community gardeners, Garden Weasels in a July

RE: [cg] Hunger in America: What's Wrong With This Picture?

2002-09-03 Thread Honigman, Adam
Cher Budge, And all those interested in the garden lawsuit and the absurdity of garden politics in NYC, please go to the archive of this listserve: http://www.hort.net/lists//community_garden/ http://www.hort.net/lists//community_garden/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [cg] Garden Sheds and Sign Board Plans Needed

2002-08-29 Thread Honigman, Adam
Tori, John Herndon's site is a keeper and the blueprints are great! Leave it to a professional to know where the good free stuff is. http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/Extension/ExtPubs/PlanList97.htm#Greenhouse Most of the plans listed under the heading, General Barn Utility Shed Plans look like the

RE: [cg] teaching materials-books, videos, slides, flip charts

2002-08-14 Thread Honigman, Adam
Ms. Mills, You have one impressive website and if the reality of what you do matches the cyber, you have a great program going there ( as well as great California growing weather!) All the best, Adam Honigman -Original Message- From: Deborah Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [cg] Fwd: community garden for youth

2002-08-14 Thread Honigman, Adam
Dear Ms. Duden, I appreciate people with fire in their bellies for a project. However, community garden building is more of a marathon event than a sprint - this is the time to do your carbo loading, make yourself a pot of your favorite hot beverage, go to the American Community Gardening

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