Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-988-8885
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:12 PM
To: John Verin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Who's Stepping
This from a gardener in Philly:
Our water barrels got really rusty. I emptied them out, but I'm
concerned about using them now. Do you have any advice? Can they be
cleaned, how much rust is ok?
Paco Verin
Citywide Project Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
While a certain part of the world is the focus of our national attention at
this time, it is not the only place where frightened hearts and closed minds
are waging violence.
In these turbulent times, I highly encourage you to keep as detached from the
media as possible, and focus on the fact
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Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:53 PM
To: John Verin; CG List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [cg] Gardeners Growing Peace
Dear John:
I rarely surface on this list, but your words of hope and encouragement
pushed me to emerge--kind of like the plant life here in the Ohio
Greetings,
We are developing a training on food growing and nutrition in a primarily
Puerto Rican neighborhood. We are seeking to find the balance between
culturally appropriate foods and what actually grows in this climate. Thus,
we're looking for recipes and stories around adapting crops to
And were we to invade Iraq with food, medicine and organizing skills, a
well-fed, healthy and organized people would oust Saddam with no a bomb dropped
or bullet fired. This, IMHO, is quite on-topic for this list, for every seed I
sow is in the name of all communities, not just the little one
No thanks.
I prefer the stew.
Paco Verin
Citywide Project Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-988-8885
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
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From: Drew Cannon [mailto:[EMAIL
Dear Melanie,
I wholly understand your perspective about keeping the list on topic. This
debate has been going on since I joined the list in 1995.
In my years as a professional community gardener, I find more and more how
everything is interconnected, and that gardening both flowers and
Please forward this to people who may be interested.
Dear friends;
You are certainly aware of the harsh landscape that makes survival hard in
Afghanistan. Add to that the military aggressions they have endured from
multiple fronts over many years.
This year, Ecology Action is working to bring
I always appreciate the balanced approach to these kinds of things, so thanks
to Jack.
AND I'm not one for waiting for science to prove effects about some obvious
risks.
Basic intelligence and intuition tells me that arsenic, which we know is
lethal, is probably not good for children and other
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In the powerfully honest movie, Life And Debt, life in Jamaica under WTO debt
is documented.
One of the horrors is that organic dairy farmers are dumping literally
thousands of gallons of good organic milk away every week.
Why? Because in the depressed economy, and under WTO debt rules, Jamaica
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I have just read that when plants are sprayed with chemicals, most of the
absorbed chemical goes into the seeds.
So, if you're drinking non-organically grown coffee, guess what? And if you're
composting with non-organically grown coffee, unless you already drank the
agro-chemicals, you are
Please forward this to people and lists who may be interested.
Dear friends,
This apprenticeship is an opportunity to learn Grow Biointensive gardening in
Los Andes mountains, Patagonia, Argentina. Grow Biointensive is the gardening
method developed by John Jeavons, known by his book, How To
Please forward this to people and lists who may be interested.
Dear friends,
This apprenticeship is an opportunity to learn Grow Biointensive gardening in
Los Andes mountains, Patagonia, Argentina. Grow Biointensive is the gardening
method developed by John Jeavons, known by his book, How To
Greetings and Happy New Year!
I am researching ways to offer garden groups training in group communication
and dynamics.
As I see it, these skills are the ones lacking in groups (thus gardens) that
fall apart. Failed garden projects can give reason for political officials and
funders to turn
All recycled plastic picnic tables that I've ever seen have had their planks
bowed downward from sun, user weight and gravity.
I hear they're making them reinforced now, but haven't any proof of that.
Paco Verin
Citywide Project Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural
with y'all,
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
http
about who's different or better.
Humbly,
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
of this info and technique is outlined in How To Grow More Vegetables by
John Jeavons, the book for the Grow Biointensive method.
www.growbiointensive.org
Available at www.bountifulgardens.org, the seed and supply catalog connected to
Jeavons.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia
Zen saying: Be the water, not the rock.
Don't resist, fight or struggle. Just flow on through.
That's not to say there aren't challenges, but to inspire a state of mind for
approaching them.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100
to become soil.
Ecology Action has the best composting practice I know of.
www.growbiointensive.org.
They have publications describing the method.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA
, spray dormant oil to
kill over wintering eggs, and plant flowering groundcovers in home orchards to
attract predators and parasites.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone
A very thorough site... http://www.soilfoodweb.com/phpweb/
Offers info in accessible way, and perspectives on soil life you won't find
from other research entities.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Please pass this on. We need to be aware of our impact more than ever... and to
change our ways.
People use 83 percent of land surface: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) --Humans take up 83 percent of the Earth's land surface to
live on, farm, mine or fish, leaving just a few areas pristine for
EARTH AND US
ALIVE AND WELL.
Free your head, your tail will follow. So let's drop the old school land
ownership scam and really start living.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
on growing most these days is compassion for our folly.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
on growing!
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
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From
they have requires they import our
not-organic powdered milk. Jamaicans, impoverished from the IMF debt, can't
afford their home-grown organic milk and buy the powdered stuff we send them.
See the movie Life and Debt http://lifeanddebt.org/
Truth be known, life be grown.
Paco John Verin
City
Hmm... lots of exploded ants in my home. Could be interesting.
When they burst, does it make a sound? Or do lots have to burst at once for it
to be audible?
Another solution I've heard for ants is to mix Boric
acid into sugar water and leave that where they will
eat it. Apparently it
Check this out... http://www.ngalandtrust.org/
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
of the reasons. Tho
never sick, I've gotten irritated lungs/sinuses from some wood chip piles, and
in the end, as path cover, they always need replacing.
My two seeds on the matter
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street
. Personally, I don't want paint flakes in my soil.
Happy gardening!
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http
The URL is www.savethegarden.org
not .com
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
Adam,
He can safely use CCA for raised beds, the greatest risk being the construction
phase, not growing food phase.
It is my understanding that it is never safe to touch PT wood. I have wiped PT
wood of all ages with rags and with my bare fingers, and the arsenate
consistently comes off.
Hi David;
Contact Ecology Action, the creators of the Grow Biointensive gardening method.
Huge numbers of Mexicans are employing this method to be able to feed
themselves, sometimes literally saving lives. There are many teachers of GBI in
Mexico that you could contact, and EA will have their
Do you have Saro and Luz's new home phone number?
They changed it and I need to reach them to change a Wednesday workshop time.
Email or voice mail me at work.
Thanks!
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th
is starting to CHARGE gardeners for
water from hydrants!! Free labor to keep the neglected lots beautiful, and
they're supposed to pay???
BTW, where can I get one of those tools that extracts people's heads from the
sand?
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
in joy
with what I once called discomfort; to share food every day with beautiful
people; morning sun dew drops, sparkling stars on asparagus ferns.
It is this beauty we must cultivate in our cities, so we all may celebrate
together that which makes us possible.
Paco John Verin
City Wide
-blight initiative, and our mayor
told them, standing in the garden, that within three years it would be
developed. It is mind boggling.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
But what do these numbers mean? What are the (supposed) safe levels? At what
point is concerned raised? At what point is there flat out danger?
Paco
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Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:28
issue
on the media page.
http://www.risingart.org/
http://www.risingart.org/media.html
Cool stuff from one of the groups really growing lots more than plants.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North
If anyone knows how to get a copy of this stencil, please inform me.
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http
Adam, You guys ROCK!
What an awesome way to use a community garden!
I'll be suggesting this to the folks here, some of whom are just beginning to
see the joy they can spread with a garden.
Let it grow!
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural
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From: Frey, Linda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:39 AM
To: John Verin
Subject: OG: Water
Dear Paco John
Thank you for your interest in ORGANIC GARDENING. Recent reports caution
that some shingles are treated with chemicals to inhibit moss
/biointensive/Outreach.html
Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
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