Thanks for the list of all the helpful sites. Another really helpful one is
the
Plants for a Future database. http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_search.html
They have about 7000 plants in the database so far and are compiling
information about the plant's use.
I was looking in it this morning to see
Shameless begging follows...
For anyone going to the conference this week---If you have a digital camera,
would you get pictures from garden/site tours that you go on and post them
somewhere so those that didn't get to go or who went on alternate tours
could share in the wonderful things you got
If this critter was an escapee from someone's house you may be OK,
***Agreed, we told the person who was bitten that she should make sure her
tetanus is up to date, see her doctor for possible infections, and trap the
ferret to check for rabies.
***When I went to the plot this morning, the
Heard back from Deb Engle today, and she says the watermelon on the cover is
called 'Garden Baby.'
Here is some info on it from places that have the seeds:
https://www.territorial-seed.com/testcat/vegetables/watermelon/WA987.html
http://www.superseeds.com/VegT-W.htm info near bottom of page;
From city newspaper:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/agriculture/story/6907618p-7857171c.h
tml
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:40:23 +0100
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Garden Raided at Sacramento Mobilization!
Last night I watched in tears as fifty riot cops
If you could tell us a bit more about how the garden and produce will be
used, we could probably help you more. In the meanwhile a few starter
thoughts...
If the people are going to divide up the produce and take it home to cook
separately, I'd work out a good harvesting and distribution system.
http://www.autotuin.nl/cargarden.html
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The site for local Washington, DC food is up. I think it would benefit from
a listing of community gardens in DC, and DC suburbs. And otherwise, it's
got a good start on data:
http://www.dcfood.org
The original Oklahoma site is still going strong.
http://www.oklahomafood.org
Sharon
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Don there is just such a community garden on a farm at a park at Kinder Farm
Park. You might want to contact them to see what info you can glean.
http://web.aacpl.net/rp/parks/Kinder/index.htm
Sharon
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This job sounds really wonderful. The person who gets it could have a day
filled with an interesting variety of jobs and be able to have a really
positive impact on a community. Our family was previously offered a job in
this area and we researched the living situation. We discovered that small
Here are some current May photos from the community garden plot of Darren
Gosling.
He has a standard UK plot of (cover your eyes, Adam) 10 rods which is about
30 feet by 100 feet.
http://www.gozplot.co.uk/photo_albums/photo_album_plot_tour_in_May.htm
Sharon
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I have shared your project with some of my friends at the Clinton Community
garden who grow a variety of stuff in the 108 4 x 8 foot plots
***I chose the size of mine as closest to your 5x7 ones in square footage,
so my 4x9 would give one extra square foot for those or 4 more feet compared
your
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thanks for introducing me to the smoothie world! Actually I use the blender
a lot, but now I am aware of another name for what I create
Show details at ...for Canada Sun May 25th, 6pm EST
http://www.hgtv.ca/tv/shows/show_details.asp?showID=62966
The US doesn't seem to carry the show yet.
Sharon
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Previously, I mentioned that I was going to see what I could grow
biointensively in a plot of similar size to the Clinton Community garden
plots. In this case, the planting bed is 4 feet by 9 feet, for a total
growing area of 36 square feet.
The bed has been double dug, and the first set of
Sharon, all I can say is wow. Are you going to be able to take photos for
us to see this? I would love to see the plants in all their glory. Wow.
[Sharon Gordon]
I am trying to work out something for that. Right now, it mostly looks
like a bed of tiny transplants, though some
Over the weekend, I was listening to a radio show where they were
interviewing Rozanne Gold, author of several three ingredient cookbooks.
The fun thing about these is that they focus on using quality, flavorful
ingredients, and only three of them. (Water, salt, and pepper are counted
as freebies
I don't see, why three ingredients recipies should be more fresh and healthy
than lets say five ingredients, but anyhow minimalistic cooking sounds like
a good way to (re-)discover the basic taste of things.
***True, I have seen 20 ingredient recipes that are very fresh and healthy.
The three
***Class***
Next question: In my biointensive minifarming class my final project,
Sounds interesting. I'd enjoy hearing more about this class.
***Organic***
to design a permaculture plan for a community garden. How
would you start something like that, especially in the mid-Atlantic area?
Bird Bath:
Here's one of my favorites--a birdbath made from a saucer and a tomato cage:
http://www.gardengatemagazine.com/tips/14tip5.html
Trellis:
At our garden, some gardeners use dumpster dived bed frames as trellis
frames and then lash sticks to it for a gridded frame work. There is a
I wanted to ask about resources that people have found helpful for less
common kinds of seeds. Or fun, different varieties.
Two that I have found helpful are http://www.evergreenseeds.com
which has a wide variety of asian seeds
and
Richters Herbs
http://www.richters.com/
which has 800+ herbs,
Each year I like to challenge myself to learn something new, make better use
of my garden space, or experiment with new varieties or techniques,
or...being a person with irrepressible gardening tendencies...all of the
above :-). So this year I've decided to challenge my gardening skills with
the
Request from Greg:
Hello all.
I have begun in earnest to research working methods of urban
agriculture in use in the US and Canada. My intent is to write a
book documenting what is currently being done and what dreams and
aspirations we have and would like to create. This
Baker Creek Heirloom seed people are putting out a new magazine called
The Heirloom Gardener. People who have seen the first issue are impressed.
Looks like it could be a big help to community gardeners who are saving
heirloom family or unusual ethnic items. Topics being covered are:
Learn the
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In addition to what Adam suggested, I'd also see if some of the interns at
the
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the Santa Cruz campus
who specialize in biointensive gardening would be interested in working with
your project. http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/casfs/community/friends.html
In addition to what's been posted, I'd like to add information about
hopefully not to be repeated hoticultural experiment.
Sometime ago, a gardener got the idea to graft tomatoes onto jimsonweed to
get big tomatoes.
He got giant, juicy, beautiful red tomatoes from his jimsonweed-tomato
plants.
hat a marvelously comprehensive response!
***Thank you. This is one of my favorite topics, so
I'm happy to share info.
Question: On pigeon peas/gandules - aren't these hard to grow in our area? I
thought these were problematic outside of the tropics, or at least Florida.
***Yes, there are
Paul has compiled lots of helpful gardening information at:
http://www.powen.freeserve.co.uk
In the projects section, the earwig trap is especially clever, and his hanging
basket is attractive. Please do make other choices than using preservative
treated wood for things though.
His gardening
Info from:
http://www.jardins-familiaux.org/frameset/englisch/eoffi.htm
International seminar in Bratislava (Slovakia)
August 28th - 31 st, 2003.
Provisional Program
Thursday, 28.8.2003
to 2 pm
- Arrival op the participants
- Accommodation in the hotel DANUBE
10 pm
general assembly
3 pm
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Highschool Market Garden and Salad Dressing
http://www.grass-roots.org/usa/foodhood.shtml
For a garden to be sustainable, the ideal would be to grow all the compost
on site. Jeavons has found that the garden alance to do this seems to be
60% Crops that produce a lot of compost
30% Crops that produce a lot of calories
10% Crops that produce the rest of the vitamins and minerals we need
On another list I'm on we were having a food security related discussion. One
of the list members was challenging herself to see how long she could eat using
US$1.39 in coins that she found on the sidewalk while walking around in her
area. Her original plan was to treat herself to 2 donuts,
For people looking to expand the growing of Asian vegetables in their gardens,
there is a helpful thesaurus with beautiful pictures at
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/trade/asiaveg/
In some cases they do not know the English name, but if you do a search on the
latin name, you can find the English
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So would it work to rent some chippers and go to the remaining neighborhoods
and chip people's trees for them?
Or maybe a tree service company would donate an hour a day or a saturday in
the remaining neighborhoods?
Or getting more creative here, perhaps there could be a Tree March for the
I missed this when it was first sent out, but someone recently sent me a copy,
so thought I'd share it belatedly.
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August 8, 2002
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It's a really wonderful thing to have such a personal and knowlegeable
relationship with the creation of your food isn't it? And growing and
harvesting it yourself gives you many layers of sensory pleasure when you
eat it. You remember the fresh spring air on the first day that it was warm
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Sometimes, regular card companies will have a garden or recipe themed one.
But if you like you could stage your own photos and then have a local printer
print them. It's helpful to talk to the printer first to find out the best
format to use.
All the regular store ones that do photos on cards
would have to eat at least 3.7 kilos of dry weight rice - about nine
kilos of cooked rice - to satisfy his or her daily need of vitamin A
from Golden Rice. A normal daily intake of 300 gram of rice would
provide about eight percent percent of the vitamin A needed per day,
And in conrast, one
Anyone else have things to add that are close to being possible or things
that might be added to Wild Dream lists?
Or maybe your Wild Dream lists are more do-able in our location if only we
had thought of it?
Sharon
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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,
***I'd enjoy hearing about this when you get a chance.
. It there's a
will, there's a way
Definitely!
The most sustainable option here would be to get the farmers a couple of
cases of the book The Power of Duck which shows how to do sustainable
farming integrating rice and ducks. The ducks serve as weeders(they don't
care for rice plants--I think that's due to the high silica content of rice
Adam asked...
The questions: What can community gardeners do to fight hunger in this
country? How can community gardeners best support sustainable agriculture?
How can we best use our power as consumers and our votes as citizens to
these
ends?
For starters, community gardeners can continue
That piece from Japan on how to grow rice without flooding the field with
water was fascinating. Never grew rice. Do any of the pros on this list
know
if that method of rice cultivation would work in the US of A?
Yes, dryland rice(it might be irrigated, but not flooded) is grown in a
number
I would characterize this movement as varied rather than elitist. Meals
range from potlucks
to $100+ fundraiser dinners.
Activities vary from country to country and state to state and include
things like:
Visiting an apple orchard and tasting heirloom apples
Local Cider tastings
Visiting a
Slow Food
decide to reach out, join and even start community gardens, then I'll take
more of an interest in what they're doing.
Of course, any time a Slow Foodie wants to come to my apartment as a
public service and cook a nice artesanal meal for me and my wife when we
come home, dead
suggested I not use
Eucalyptus leaves/stems in this compost. Is the
Eucalyptus really bad, and are there other
plants/trees that I should not chip/shred for use in
the vegetable garden compost?
Others to avoid are
Walnut leaves
Poison oak/ivy
Treated lumber
Plants grown on soil with toxic
In this sort of area, you can often grow all sorts of greens and cabbage
crops very successfully.
For starters you might try leaf lettuce, head lettuce, turnips, radishes,
cabbage, bok choy, tsai chi, chickory/endive, mustard, kale, dandelions,
mesclun, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, and other
For people that might want to create a demo garden of local medicinal plants
and herbs at their community garden site, there are two helpful identification
and description books:
1) Peterson Field Guides
A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North
America, 2nd ed,
In addition to having people not smoke or use any other tobacco products in
the garden, it's important for people who do smoke to wash their hands
before working in the garden to avoid transmitting diseases to tomatoes,
peppers, eggplant, and other nightshade family members.
If there are a lot of
I don't know how your garden is laid out, but if you put the trees on the
north end of your garden, they won't shade out the garden plots. If you are
on a two sided hill, putting the fruit trees on the northside can keep them
from coming into bloom too early and getting frost bitten. But it can
I was reminded of this fun variation on potlucks while answering an email for
another list.
Here's how it works:
1)First you need a small team of volunteer Stone Soup Cooks.
2)On the day before the event, the participants bring something fresh from
their garden to the Stone Soup Kitchen which
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