Re: [Community_garden] Honey bee hives in the community garden

I tried with the Grow Regina Community Garden but there was too much fear and hysteria amoung a few of the membership. Proceed carefully or you will find that predudice and ignorance will prevail. Good luck. Bees need our help. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mary Jac Brennan wrote: > > Doe

Re: [Community_garden] Community Gardens and Railroad Corridors

Hi Peter, I understand that your book is about American cities, but in Canada we have an interesting history of so called railway gardens associated with the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Each major town along the CPR line had a beautiful garden built by the railway aimed at proving to wary sett

Re: [Community_garden] Looking for quotes

Hi All, Here is a saying we use in our garden (www.growregina.ca): "Flower Gardens Grow Flowers Vegetable Gardens Grow Vegetables Community Gardens Grow Communities" I don't know where I first heard it but it was somewhere either in a Polis Project report (www.polis.org) or online. If anyone

Re: [Community_garden] Bee Hives in Community Garden

Thanks Ken! I bought a set of hives from a farmer at the farmers market last fall and want to donate them to our garden to improve the yield and produce honey for the local food bank. I am just afraid that with 230 community gardener plots fully rented out that we will have lots of complaints

[Community_garden] Bee Hives in Community Garden

Hi, Has anyone any experience with starting or maintaining a bee hive in a community garden and in particular the politics and fear this might create in the garden population? Thanks. Cheers, Wade ___ The American Community Gardening Association

Re: [Community_garden] City Bountiful

Hi Everyone, Here in Regina we lost 280 garden plots in a large tract of land near downtown in 2004. It was devastating and we put up a struggle against the province that included some legal maneuvers and a well organized political resistance. At one point at the height of the struggle, the

Re: [Community_garden] Politicians and Gardens

ce 1984. Had I and my fellow "political operative" not been active in politics and known to the folks, I don't think we could have pulled it off. Libby On Feb 20, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Wade Zawalski wrote: Sorry, that never came out right. What I meant is that we must be polit

Re: [Community_garden] Politicians and Gardens

knows how powerful the bureaucracy is. Cheers, W. Wade Zawalski wrote: By the way... being politically neutral does not mean politically active! ___ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's servic

Re: [Community_garden] Politicians and Gardens

By the way... being politically neutral does not mean politically active! ___ 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, pleas

Re: [Community_garden] Calm Down

Hi Everyone, I agree with Karen and I think it is very important that ANY public group no matter how its agenda lines up with those of elected officials remain politically neutral. Here is why I think so: * Government's change. Obviously, being closely associated with one political party m

Re: [Community_garden] Soil testing before starting a community garden - specific tests recommended??

professionals and I urge you caution. I can send you a copy of our phase one environmental site assessment to help you understand what is involved. Cheers, Wade Zawalski Grow Regina Board Member Fundraising, Planning and Development Committee nr...@aol.com wrote: Greetings from Portland Oregon

Re: [Community_garden] Community Garden Software

Hi Bill, I am working on a project to provide such to Community Gardens and to to make it online and free. Please contact me. Cheers, Wade Zawalski Grow Regina Does anyone out there use a computer program to manage their community garden? I'm looking for a spreadsheet or data ba

Re: [Community_garden] seeking plot rental policy advice

Hi, Sounds like you have quite the garden under way. Here are a few thoughts: 1. Without tenure you won't have interested gardeners who will invest time or energy to create anything more than the basic field of potatoes and carrots. After all, why put any work into improving the soil if yo

Re: [Community_garden] What to do about old gasoline?

Interesting question. However, a quick google search yields the following recommendation from the State of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.state.oh.us/ocapp/p2/pdf/HC2web.pdf The pamphlet recommends that old gasoline can be cleaned of water and other debris and then mixe

Re: [Community_garden] Fw: Re: [food_justice] Seed Companies & their Relationships w/Monsanto..

Hi, Thank you for the detective work regarding the truth about Monsanto. This is a very difficult topic and very polarizing. To give you an example, not more than a couple of hours away from where I live, a farmer here in Saskatchewan spent years fighting against Monsanto after the company

Re: [Community_garden] Non-potable water in com. gardens

Bill, Perhaps you can approach the city and ask for spigot water usage up to a certain limit per week (on average). I am sure the reason you are having difficulty is that the municipality wants to conserve water as drip irrigation uses about 50% as much surface spraying. If you request 10 mi

Re: [Community_garden] Non-potable water in com. gardens

Hi Bill, Can't really help you without a better idea of what your requirements are. How many gardens are there? What sizes? How many spigots do you need? How many do you want? How much water do you estimate you need from the spigots if the NP water is used for irrigation? Do you have room t

Re: [Community_garden] Community Garden Risk Assesments

not from fear. (a point a wise man I know recently reminded me of) Cheers, Wade Zawalski ps. If anyone is curious as to what a phase one looks like, please contact me in private and I will be glad to send a you a copy. Mike McGrath wrote: Wade: THANK YOU! Whoo! This is one of the mos

Re: [Community_garden] Non-potable water in the garden

William, I appreciate your concerns and hope you find my comments useful. For the record, fresh out of college almost 20 years ago, I started my career for a few years as a geotechnical engineer (soil/foundation/groundwater) and was involved in several environmental projects which involved a

Re: [Community_garden] do not send email to my personal account please, or i will notify the administrator

Hi, I believe what 'john doe' means is that he is tired of people contacting him to complain about the unfortunate situation he has caused by his inappropriate escalation of this affair to the entire community. Can I recommend that we all just let this thing drop and stop adding to the threa

Re: [Community_garden] growing potatoes in old tires

Hi Everyone, Our community garden (www.growregina.ca) is in the process of rebuilding after we lost our previous 11 acre 275 plot community garden site. The new 3.4 acre site has been made available to us on a permanent basis in a city park. The site is smaller but we have been fortunate to have

Re: [Community_garden] Paying for water at Community Gardens

hewan, Canada). Good luck and let us know how the drip irrigation system works. Hope this helps. Cheers, Wade Zawalski www.growregina.ca On Feb 5, 2008 12:57 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for information on programs that currently charge community > gar