[Community_garden] Please join us for 100 SqFt Garden Challenge

There's a fun international gardening challenge going on based on the article in Mother Earth News. Everyone is welcome to join in and you can let other gardening groups and lists know about it as well. If you'd like an interesting garden project, consider participating in the 100 Square Foot

[Community_garden] 100 Square Foot Food Garden Challenge

You may enjoy having some experienced gardeners work together to do the 100 square foot garden Rosalind Creasy/Mother Earth News challenge in a demo bed to maximize food production. To get the most food from this, you could do a 4x25 foot Jeavons style bed with the 25 side on a north edge to

Re: [Community_garden] Best edible plants in Zone 5 rain garden?

Cranberries Wild Rice Also, use the advanced search of this database to search for native edibles and those with a wetland component. http://plants.usda.gov/adv_search.html Sharon gordo...@one.net ___ The American Community Gardening Association

[Community_garden] Avoiding Roundup on New Community Gardens

In order to start some new community vegetable gardens, saturating the entire area with roundup is being considered in order to reduce the effort of the first tilling. Would appreciate any links to references that could help educate people to prevent this. More info: Current site is a

[Community_garden] Balancing Garden Time

At the community gardens this year we'd like to help gardeners work on two time management issues in the community garden plots. 1) Balancing time on garden tasks. One thing we have noticed is that gardeners tend to focus on one type of task and all sorts of other things fall by the wayside.

[Community_garden] Part 1 $700 in Vegetables from a 100 square foot garden and other updates

***SMALL KITCHEN GARDEN EXPERIMENTS*** ** Some areas have been experimenting with gardening intensively in 100 square feet (~9 square meters). In 2008 Rosalind Creasy in the USA did an experiment to see how much she could grow in a summer garden of 100

[Community_garden] Part 2 $700 in vegetables/Complete Nutrition Gardens, Edible Landscaping, new type of CG. 4 Season garden

need to preserve food. ***FOUR SEASON HARVEST TECHNIQUES** *** Cold hardy vegetables can also be grown to full size in the fall and harvested all winter using four season harvest techniques. http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/ Sharon Gordon gordo...@one.net

[Community_garden] Winter Garden at the White House

Short video and additional text: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/16/planting-winter-garden Sharon gordo...@one.net -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Community_garden] [COMFOOD:] Seeds and SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program)

Additional helpful things along with this would be to: --Teach seed saving of open pollinated seeds in the communities. Ashworth's Seed to Seed is a good resource. --Encourage networking among gardeners so they can swap saved seeds and increase diversity in what they grow while at the

[Community_garden] Rain barrels

We are looking for suggestions for good rain barrels-commercial or handmade from food safe drums. Also any suggestions about what to look for or be sure we do or don't do would be appreciated too. Sharon gordo...@one.net -- next part -- An HTML attachment was

[Community_garden] Public/Gov Sample/Demo Food gardens

Some governors and other major public groups are planting food gardens this year for education and promotion of local food. Here are a few I am aware of. Anyone know of others? And if you have links to blogs or articles about the gardens, I'd appreciate that info too. California:

Re: [Community_garden] Habitat for Humanity

The local Habitat for Humanity organization here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina is hoping to have a community garden as part of their newest building program. Does anyone have experience with Habitat gardens? If you can give me your email I would be happy to communicate directly. Thanks in

Re: [Community_garden] seeking plot rental policy advice

I too would recommend letting people keep plots from year to year as long as they keep them up. It can easily take 2-3 years to really get a plot producing. Plus if people have the same one each year, they can rotate their crops properly within the plot. And they can get perennial food plants,

[Community_garden] Baltimore area community gardens

One of our most wonderful gardeners is moving to Baltimore and would like to get a community garden there. Could I please get a list of the Community Gardens in Baltimore for her? Thank you. Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- next part -- An HTML attachment was

[Community_garden] Virginia Beach or Towson Community Gardens?

We have gardeners planning moves to Virginia Beach, VA and Towson, MD. Are there Community Gardens in either location? Thank you! Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[Community_garden] Food Planning Action Plan at APA Conference

Forwarded from the Healthy Corner Stores list with Hannah’s permission. Sharon Hello friends of healthy corner stores, Are you planning to attend the American Planning Association conference in Las Vegas this April?  If so, I hope you will join your

Re: [Community_garden] Gardens in/around Paris Amsterdam?

Below is a link to the European community garden association. Some of the people in the office can email back in English. In France the community gardens are called Jardins Familiaux. Not sure what they are called in Amsterdam. Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux a.

Re: [Community_garden] Dollar value of produce from gardens

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] Paying for water at Community Gardens and winter gardening

It's my understanding that high water needs plants like about an inch of water per week.? 400 sq. ft. would be about 33 cubic feet.? With about 7.5 gallons of water in a cubic foot, you'd need about 250 gallons per week, or about 1000+ gallons per month.? I tried looking up average monthly

Re: [Community_garden] Paying for water at Community Gardens

A few strategies that would be helpful for water conservation in addition to drip irrigation: If you are on even a slight slope, create fertile soil swales to catch and hold water when it does rain. These are sort of like invisible refilled ditches that direct water to the planting beds.

Re: [Community_garden] Paying for water Part 2

Also I forgot to mention that some varieties do well on less water. For example tepary beans tend to produce well in arid heat on far less water than the more common green beans. Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ The American Community Gardening

Re: [Community_garden] [COMFOOD:] If It's Fresh and Local, Is It Always Greener? NYT Sunday Andrew Martin

Anna, would you send a link to your response? I couldn't find it on the site. http://rejectedletterstotheeditor.com Although Martin raises good questions, he also appears to be setting up false dicotomies and ignoring many better solutions. On the issue of tomatoes in cans vs tomatoes from far

[Community_garden] Incredible Composting Success

Some of the community gardens in our area have started working to reduce the waste sent to the landfill. In previous years the county would send one of the gardens three Mack truck sized dumpsters for Spring Clean Up Day which the gardeners would dutifully fill up --mostly with compostable or

[Community_garden] San Diego area Community Gardens

We have a request from someone in the San Diego area looking for community gardens near their apartment. Is there a list of community gardens in the area and/or list of people organizing new ones? Thank you. Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ The

[Community_garden] New Orange Honeydew safer and tastier than Netted Cantaloupes

STORY LEAD: Orange-Fleshed Honeydews Evaluated ___ ARS News Service Agricultural Research Service, USDA Alfredo Flores, (301) 504-1627, [EMAIL PROTECTED] November 29, 2007 --View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr

[Community_garden] More Complete Nutrtion Gardens?

Does anyone know of other demo projects or research on Complete Nutrition Gardens? These are gardens where people try to grow a balance of food that will provide complete nutrition and grow in a way that will imporve soil fertility. I'm also interested in test projects where people grow a model

Re: [Community_garden] Research Inquiry: Intensive Gardening

A gardener who devoted most of their plot to growing beets (cylinder shape) eating roots and greens Chard, swiss Leeks Mangels Onions (torpedo type shape) Potatoes, Irish type Rutabagas Turnips eating roots and greens could expect about 8 pounds per square foot of intensive bed. A gardener who

Re: [Community_garden] Research Inquiry: Intensive Gardening Part 2 Dervaes

An additional point of reference. The Dervaes family has 3900 square feet of their yard planted intensively using a mix of intensive, square foot, vertical, and permaculture strategies. They have mixed plantings focused on fresh fruits and vegetables with few grains, dry beans, or starches (they

[Community_garden] Same # of people in food production to farm directly or industrially

Barbara Kingsolver has some interesting data about the percentage of people involved in feeding a population directly or indirectly. It turns out that if a large number of people farm/ garden directly (family farms, SPIN Farming, kitchen gardens, community gardens, CSAs, etc ) that it takes

[Community_garden] SPIN Farming and rural community garden

You also might use if for SPIN Farming or a tool for learning/teaching SPIN Farming. This allows a farmer to farm on less than an acre in an intensive way for a group farm stand, farmer's market, contributor to a CSA or food co-op, specialty grower for a restaurant or cafeteria, etc.

[Community_garden] Fw: Ticks Can Survive Washing

- Original Message - From: ARS News Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ARS News subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:12 AM Subject: Ticks Can Survive Washing STORY LEAD: Ticks Don't Come Out in the Wash ___ ARS News

[Community_garden] Food safe garden hoses

Hi, I am looking for resources for food safe garden hoses. Recently the ones I have seen are impregnated with microbe killers, lead, cadmium, and carry warnings on the packaging etc. We are looking for regular hoses and drip hoses that would be safe for food crops in community garden plots.

[Community_garden] Article for getting garden ready for winter

To help gardeners get their gardens off to a good start in the spring, we are trying to help people learn how to get them in good shape in the late fall/early winter (Zone 6-7 most winters, varies by site). Does anyone have posts we could use to help people prepare? We have a lot of beginning

[Community_garden] $1143 for a plot of 6 square meters

See photo at http://www.kitchengardeners.org/2007/06/kitchen_gardens_1.html 1000 yen = US$8.37 Kitchen gardens enjoy a comeback in Japan By Yaeko Abe, printed in the Asahi Shimbun, June 22, 2007 Across the world, backyard vegetable patches have traditionally been the preserve of bearded baby

[Community_garden] New Southernpeas

Both sound like good beans for heat. The WhipperSnapper looks like it will be especially versatile since it can be eaten as a green snap bean. Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** STORY LEAD: New Southernpeas Developed by ARS, Cooperators

[Community_garden] What do you do about unpicked produce?

We have volunteers that can help pick if you or family member are sick or injured. If someone goes on vacation, usually whoever is watering and weeding their plot for them harvests the produce that must be picked like tomatoes or green beans for themselves and leaves anything that can hold in

[Community_garden] More on Manor Garden Allotments and Olympic situation

From: Trish Shuker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All There was a large turn out of people re Manor Garden Allotments this morning - http://www.lifeisland.org/ Also, a double page article in Saturday's Daily Mail. There is a meeting this Wednesday in Tottenham - people can also email questions to

[Community_garden] Update on attempted destruction of gardens for Olympics

They were trying to destroy and even older piece of common land to move the allotments to that location. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361776.html Sharon gordonse at one.net

[Community_garden] Grow Your Own Veggies on Tv and 3x3m plot

The Royal Horticultural Society and the BBC have teamed up to produce six entertaining shows to encourage people to grow small veggie gardens. The web site includes clips from the shows and a blog describing the Society's 3 x 3m plot grow a family's vegetables. Over six episodes, Carol Klein

[Community_garden] Food, Gardens, and Hunger in NYC

In looking over the maps in this report, the opportunity that seemed most likely would be to see how many community gardens could be installed at the summer feeding sites on the school grounds. Sharon gordonse at one.net *** For those who were recently discussing mapping fast

[Community_garden] Less known African food plants

New book on lost crops of Africa. Most growable in the US. Some only suitable for tropical areas. http://www.seedquest.com/News/releases/2006/october/17397.htm http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11763.html Sharon gordonse at one.net

[Community_garden] Related Programing ideas for Community Gardens

In an effort to expand the knowledge and social diversity of our community garden activities, we are looking for related programing ideas for community gardens such as: Tomato Tastings Local Food/Garden Potlucks Seasonal Stone Soup Hand pollinating for Heirloom Seed Purity and Seed Saving What

[Community_garden] Garden Contests for Community Gardens

Some community gardens have one or more garden contests during the season. If you have them or have been considering having them, we'd be interested in any of the following: 1) What do you focus on for the contest? (most diversity, most attractive, best tasting tomato, largest pumpkin?) 2) What

Re: [cg] Request - Community Garden Research Projects

Hi, Amelia, Sounds like a wonderfully interesting area of study. Hope you hear of lots of interesting upcoming projects. You may be able to turn some up in a lit search on butterfly diversity or bird counts in certain areas. I know there are several community gardens who keep a comprehensive

[cg] Call for Grant proposals

From the Food-News mailing list * FYI SEED GRANT CALL IN THE AREAS OF: Urban Physical Environments and Health Food Security and Urban Agriculture Neighbourhoods and Health Deadline for application : September 29, 2006 The Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI),

[cg] NYC, DC, CA chance to share community garden literature

Anna welcomes local groups to share resources and is providing information tables for her book tour. Invitation and information below. The book promotes healthy local sustainable food for all. There's more about it here: http://smallplanetinstitute.org/ (info about 1/4 way down page) and some

[cg] Food Security Request

Here's a question, I'd been planning to the ask the list, which is asked in the post below by people from another state. Does anyone have any suggestions for them? If so would you please me a copy of your response as well? Also are there any groups doing detailed assessments of how their

[cg] Local food challenges, complete diet gardens

I'm compiling a list of local food challenges that are in progress, planned, or in planning. Also welcomed are ones where your group would like to do one, but hasn't decided on the details yet. Any of the following info that's available would be useful: Name and description of challenge When

[cg] Directory of Complete Diet Gardens

Another directory I am working on is one for complete diet gardens such as those in One Circle: How to Grow a Complete Diet in Less than 1000 square feet by David Duhon. I welcome info about any that you know exist and more details about ones you are knowledgable about. Will compile and send to

[cg] Winston-Salem/Forsyth Co Gardens

If there are any community gardens in the Winston-Salem area or anywhere in Forsyth Co, would people who know about them or of them please send me info about them? Thank you! Hope everyone is seeing some things sprouting in their gardens! Our gardens mainly have greens, asian greens, lettuce,

[cg] Community Garden as part of revamping community's health

STORY LEAD: Pilot Program Fosters Fitness in Three Delta Communities ___ ARS News Service Agricultural Research Service, USDA Jim Core, (301) 504-1619, [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 7, 2006 --View this report online, plus any included photos or other images, at

[cg] Call Day to prevent NAIS's excessive control of people and livestock

I know of one Community Garden with chickens and other livestock that would be affected and in case there are more: From the [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Anti-NAIS Call Day---Monday, January 23---sponsored by the Piedmont

[cg] Translating some vegetable names and a surprising use for honeysuckle

We solved a few mysteries of herb and vegetable names from 2004 and have a new set of mysteries from 2005. The Korean herb-vegetable that looked sort of like chrysanthemum when young and called ssook turned out to be mugwort. A large leafed vegetable plant turned out to be sesame leaf or green

Re: [cg] community gardens in Luxembourg

The headquarters of the european community garden association, Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux, is located in Luxembourg. And the Luxembourg group has a link off of the organization page. http://www.jardins-familiaux.org/ Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[cg] Be a Founding Member of Food Secure Canada

- Original Message - From: Food News To: Food News Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:12 AM Subject: Be a Founding Member of Food Secure Canada FYI... Be a Founding Member of Food Secure Canada (French version will be available soon) Please see

[cg] Food grade container water storage in winter

Although people at our various sites can garden through the winter, the water is turned off just at the first frost date, and gets turned back on 2-4 weeks after the last frost date when the water officials get a chance to do so. So when the gardens need water, people who drive bring a carload of

[cg] Specialty wood question

Is TimberSil safe around food plants? TimberSil is infused with sodium silicate, a melted mix of sand and soda ash. Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to

[cg] School garden in Philadelphia

Movable feast In West Philadelphia, a high school nutrition program plans to bring healthy produce to people who need it. By Marian Uhlman Inquirer Staff Writer Johnathan Russell is the kind of teenager who doesn't just eat his vegetables. He grows them, markets them, and gets other kids to eat

[cg] Safest paint for raised beds

What have people found to be the safest paints for raised beds? We know to avoid the old or new styles of treated wood. And redwood and cedar are out of the budget. Mortered bricks/cement blocks/stones are not allowed, and the water on the slope would disassemble unmortered items in the next

[cg] Setting up Plant and Seed Swaps--the 2nd round

I asked about this earlier and so far have gotten requests to share info which I would gladly do. However so far there has been no info about how various groups conduct their plant swaps. Soanyone do plant and seed swaps? Would you let us in on how you like to do them? For those that set

[cg] From a dollar's worth of seeds

Challenge from a frugal list: If I had a dollar challenge-- Assume you find a dollar on the ground. You need to spend it on something besides bills. Practical is ok but frivilous treats are better. And NO saving it. What do you come up with? Other peoples'

[cg] An unusual fence

Here's someone who used their lacemaking skills to make a chain link fence with a lace pattern in it: http://www.kantopleiding-nko.nl/Aktiviteiten/Aktiviteiten.html (Dutch, but you can look at the pictures.) __ The American Community

[cg] Setting up plant and seed swaps

For those that set up plant and seed swaps, how do you organize them? We'd like to do one at a meeting, where we'd have about 30 minutes to do the swap, and one on a garden work day where it could be done for a longer period of time. Some things that are important to us: Good selection over all

Re: [cg] Outdoor ovens

The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens by Alan Scott and Daniel Wing Build Your Own Earth Oven : A Low-Cost, Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves by Kiko Denzer Building a Wood-Fired Oven for Bread and Pizza: by Tom Jaine (Some question about page 47 re

[cg] Worm bin distribution program

National Geographic article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0913_040913_wormcompost.html __ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the

Re: [cg] The cut pear

In previous instances when gardens were threatened by bulldozers, many from the list took action to prevent the distruction of the garden. In a number of instances this has very fortunately been successful. When it has not been successful 100s of people have pitched in to remove and relocate the

[cg] Garden booklets for your community garden

For gardens with an informational booklet for your garden, what sorts of info do you put in the booklets? Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community

[cg] Community garden at stealth housing site

Articles and photo at http://madhousers.org/ajc20021016.htm __ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go

[cg] Community garden at housing site

Articles and photo at http://madhousers.org/ajc20021016.htm __ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go

[cg] Korean Vegetable/Herb

Some of the Korean gardeners at one of our garden sites grow a plant that seems to used as both a green and an herb. Unfortuantely I only know one Korean word, and none of the Korean gardeners speak more than a few words of English. So I'd like to describe it and see if anyone knows a latin or

[cg] Adventures in Toronto

Soreports, choice morsels, or random tidbits from the conference in Toronto? Or webbed pictures of tours? It looked as though it was going to be a knowledge and fun filled event. Sharon, standing in line for the No Gardener Left Behind Program :-)

Re: [cg] zoning/permits for community gardens

Another issue we expect to run into some day relates to composting. It is not a permitted use anywhere. However, in our ordinances, a prohibited activity is piling refuse. Somebody could complain about composting as piling refuse, and the zoning folks would be required to cite the offender.

Re: [cg] hybridizing for kids

- Is there anyone who would recommend a plant with reproductive aspects that would be easily fertilized by children 10 years of age? I'd recommend using two very different summer squash. It's important to tape the blossoms shut the night before they open. (The blue low tack masking tape

[cg] Recent Cookbooks for gardeners

I am working on a newsletter article for our gardening group that grows a wide variety of food items , usual american as well as many from a variety of ethnic tradtions. I'd like to include some reviews of recent cookbooks that have a good whole foods vegetable/fruit orientation. Some past

[cg] Theft

In our gardens we have some occasional vandalism for the sake of vandalism and food theft mostly at the various sites. We had one serious incident several years ago where a woman who gardens from a wheelchair was assaulted and robbed. Last year's damage and loss included: 1) Several individual

[cg] From Lawn to Prairie

One way to remove the lawn is to use a machine which cuts a strip of sod and you can roll it up and remove it. These strips can be composted or given to people who need to patch some lawn. If your local rental place doesn't have a machine, check with funeral homes about who they use for grave

[cg] Trying any new varieties this year?

I was wondering what new plants or growing techniques people are trying this year. After reading enthusiastic accounts of purple sprouting broccoli from community gardeners in the UK, I am trying some of that. And I am trying some very sweet Vietnamese onions. The onions were given by a young

Re: [cg] Planting in a com.garden plot

gardening and the plot is rather tiny, 4ft by 2ft(estimated). ***To get more of an idea of the size, you might ask the people who created the plots. Someone probably measured them all when they marked them and divided them out. Another way you can find out is by measuring with one foot in

[cg] Another Hunger ending strategy

I recently read about some programs that have added a new strategy for helping children who experience chronic hunger. In addition to the school breakfast and lunch programs, some schools have started sending home backpacks of food over the weekends so that children don't have to go without food

[cg] Request help for email relay

I have intermittant problems reaching some people via email. Occasionally, my isp runs into problems so severe that I can't even email myself. (I can only imagine what the computer techs at the isp must have been going through.) At the moment I am having some trouble with aol, and I need to

[cg] CG Magazine Article with beautiful pictures

In the Better Homes and Gardens special topical magazine entitled Garden Ideas and Outdoor Living, Summer 2004, there is an article on a plot in the Fenway Garden in Boston. Plot holders Ken Kelleher and Andrew Ochrymowych combined adjacent 25x20 foot plots to create one 25x40 plot. Originally

Re: [cg] Organic CSA Youth Farm Ceremony

Two things come to mind, one serious/inspiring and the second involving a bad pun. 1) Give the Judge, the head of probation, and the FOOD Share guy, a knife a cutting board, an attractive good sized apple. Have them cut open the apples. Have the two youths remove the seeds. Then you and the

Re: [cg] Anyone out there a gardening addict?

You know you're a garden aficianado when ***you are as happy to see garden catalogs as holiday cards in December. ***when visiting friends, you ask to go with them to their ethnic markets and local farmers' markets in order to find new fruits and vegetables to collect seeds from. ***your kids

RE: [cg] Growing edibles on streetsides

I wouldn't do this either. Somethings you could do there: 1) Grow cutting flowers. (And have a separate compost area for these flowers for when they are done or deadheaded where the compost only goes back to the street flowers.) Be sure flowers are short enough or located far enough from corners

[cg] Potato Days/Fairs for 2004

Here are some examples of Potato Days in the UK where community and home gardeners can buy samples or larger amounts of wide varieties of seed potatoes from central locations. Some community gardens charter buses for their members to attend regional Potato Days. Info on London one is at

[cg] Food and Society Policy Fellowships for 2004-2005

From: Richard P. Haynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FOOD AND SOCIETY POLICY FELLOWSHIPS APPLICATION DEADLINE - February 25, 2004 The Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute is pleased to announce a request for applications for the 2004-2005 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. This is a

[cg] Good News on an International Call for the promotion of school gardens

At the November meeting of SlowFood's International Congress, Alice Waters was elected the international vice president. And here's some news about her request to each local group: Newly elected international vice president Alice Waters proposed her own challenge to the assembly. Inspired by

RE: [cg] City Repair? and Asheville

Asheville, a small western Carolina city that nonetheless is biggest in the mountains, is a progressive enclave where all kinds of interesting things take root and grow. I'm not sure, though, what's currently happening there in terms of community gardening - there was an active program, MAGIC?,

RE: [cg] Need Information on Montreal Community Gardens

73(76 by 2001) Montreal community gardens with around 6,700 plots http://www.eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/COG/COG_A_93_04.htm February, 1997 - A 112 page publication (in French) describing the Montreal community gardens: Creer un jardin communautaire - L'amenager, le gerer, l'animer. Auteurs: Andre

RE: [cg] Crops without water?

Here's an inspiring example from Zimbabwe. http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln46/lancaster.html Four things that I can think of that would help before you go would be to 1)take a permaculture workshop, read the major permaculture books, and look at some of the videos. This will help with

[cg] CSAs in NYC and Glynwood Harvest awards

From today's NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/nyregion/27FARM.html October 27, 2003 Bringing in the Harvest, Without a Farm in Sight By KIRK JOHNSON A lot of things are making it harder these days to bond with one's broccoli. The convenience of prepared foods and the siren song of

[cg] For people involved in school gardens

People who are working to get gardens into every school yard to improve nutrition might want to know what the other side is doing. ~Sharon * Cheeseburger and Fries, Wrapped Up in One September 23, 2003 By TANIA RALLI Looking to emulate the success of Chicken McNuggets

[cg] Saving ripening pumpkins

On another list I am on people have reported theft of ripening pumpkins from their community garden plots. Others chimed in that they have reduced the loss of their pumkins by lightly covering them with straw and/or rhubarb leaves with the object being to make the orange color nonvisable from

[cg] A whopper from the garden

From Betty's community garden plot. Seeds were from an Italian seed company http://www.seedsofitaly.sagenet.co.uk/pumpkins.htm Us supplier for Seeds of Italy is http://www.growitalian.com/ and plant is from pumpkin/squash family. Name in English is Sicilian Snake and in Italian is Tinniruma or

RE: [cg] Restaurants Buying Local

I would appreciate learning about any restaurants in your cities/area who are buying produce from community gardens and local farmers. Please reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a tremendous number of these that could be turned up via the local SlowFood groups. http://www.slowfood.com/

[cg] More info on International Community Garden Conferences and study sessions

Here's a more complete schedule; 2004 study session in Poland 2005 international congress in Lyon, France 2006 seminar in Austria 2007 study session in a Scandinavian Country 2008 international congress in Poland All of them are put on by Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins

[cg] Community garden email lists in other languages

Does anyone know of community garden lists in languages other than English? I'd especially like to find French, Italian and German ones, but would be interested in any. Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The American Community Gardening Association

[cg] TV Program on community gardens

Depending on where you live or what's on your satellite, perhaps you can see this: There will be a one hour Gardener's World programme on allotments on BBC2, on Friday 15th August around 8pm (UK time). They have been filming allotments in Birmingham for a while now. Monty Don will be

[cg] International Community Garden Conference in 2005

For those who like to plan ahead, the International Community Garden Conference in Europe in 2005 will be held in Lyon, France from August 25 to August 28, 2005. It's put on by Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux http://www.jardins-familiaux.org/ . It's held every

[cg] Community gardens in the news

There was an interesting article in the paper about a community garden this weekend. It's about gluts and plot holders at Musselburgh Allotments that got together to pool their knowledge about what to do with the summer's abundance. Quite fun:

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