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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu>
  • To: permaculture-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
  • Subject: TH: 17th Annual Community Gardening Conference / Sep 96. (fwd)
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:35:37 -0500 (EST)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:11:31 -0500 (EST)
From: flora@flora.com
To: Community Forestry Discussion <tree-house@lists.umbc.edu>
Subject: TH: 17th Annual Community Gardening Conference / Sep 96. (fwd)

Hi Fellow Forestry Fanciers -

Their 17th Annual ! Good golly, we haven't gotten through our 1st
year yet, & I feel exhausted already. Ok, our friends over at ACGA
(American Community Gardening Association), one of our premier grass-
roots (vegetable-roots, wildflower-roots, tree-roots) urban ecology
initiatives, whose declared objectives are very much in harmony with our
own, has announced its 26-29 Sep 1996 Conference in Montreal Canada.

This year's theme, which reads like we could have written it our-
selves, is _Branching Out: Linking Communities Through Gardening_.

Call For Presentations And Papers

The American Community Gardening Association is a national non-
profit membership organization of professionals, volunteers, and
supporters of community gardening as a means for improving the
quality of life in both urban and rural areas. Community gardening
does this by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community
development, stimulating social interaction, and encouraging self-
reliance. As a result, people begin beautifying their neighborhoods,
producing nutritious food, reducing family budgets, and conserving
resources. Gardening also creates opportunities for recreation,
exercise, therapy, and education.

[Prune] ...

People encouraged to submit: Any individual working for a group,
school, organization (like Tree-House Discussions International :-),
or university concerned with community gardening, conservation,
landscape design / architecture, wildlife enhancement, government
leaders of environment agencies, *elders* in the community garden
realm, *youth* involved with gardening, and any other people with
experience in gardening and greening in their community.

=> Proposal Deadline: Postmarked by March 15th, 1996.

(From USA) - ACGA Conference c/o (From Canada) - ACGA Conference
San Francisco League Of Urban Gardeners c/o Michel Confortate Gerant
2088 Oakdale Ave. Module Des Services Regionaux
S.F. Ca. / 94124 / US Region Administrative No. 2
(415) 285-7584 5319 Av. Notre-Dame-De-Grace
(Fax) 285-7586 2E Etage / Montreal / H4A 1L2 / CA
(514) 876-6363 / (Fax) 872-4585
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Said Call-For-Submissions doesn't seem to make any references at all to
Trees or to Community Forestry. But here's a thought of mine which
has never been verbalized on-list before, one that could be a powerful
strategy toward sustaining Community Gardens. Plant More Trees. Of
course, you knew that's what I was going to say, but consider this
rationale. If a neighborhood grows trees on its abandoned lots today,
that is all the more disincentive against the powers-that-be from gutting
out those Gardens in the future. It can be much more effective to chain
your volunteers to a 10-year-old Red Maple than to a raspberry patch.

This chilling scenario, unfortunately, will be playing itself out
several times in the next couple of years in New York City - in the
gardens, in the courts, and in the media. And *this* brings up yet
another serious question of whether or not communities should invest in
heavy mechanical 'tree-spades', both for acquiring exiled, refugee trees
in the 1st place, and then for transplanting them at a later time in the
future. I say Yes! It is possible that a Community Tree Spade could
be hired by 'discriminating gentry' for removing unloved trees - earning
(us) some cash while simultaneously adopting some healthy trees. Hmmm ...
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| Richard@Flora.Com | _Planting Native Trees Vs. Exotics: Guidelines For
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  • TH: 17th Annual Community Gardening Conference / Sep 96. (fwd), Lawrence F. London, Jr., 01/28/1996

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