Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

In theory community gardens sound like a great idea. But as they say, the 
Devil is in the details. From what I've read community gardens only work out 
where those involved belong to something in common, an organization, an 
apartment complex, a church, whatever, where they know each other and hence 
have some consideration for the others. A loose neighborhood collection of 
unrelated people can quickly lose interest and let weeds go to seed, or spoil 
others plots with sprays or just steal others produce. I'd be curious if 
anyone has actual experience to the contrary.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/29/2008 at 7:57 PM yarrow@sfo.com wrote:

>At 11:16 AM -0700 5/29/08, anna Lorrai wrote:
>Even if people lived in cities there are ways to grow food.  I few
>days ago I watched Bill Mollisons " Global Gardener " on Youtube.  In
>the urban section he showed many city farmers but the most impressive
>to me was the forward thinking developer in Davis California. This
>development has many homes but is built in such a way that the
>commons are self watering and growing food bearing trees. The
>children can ride their bikes about on the bike paths, pick fresh
>fruit and it is a very beautiful place to live. If more developers
>would build with self sufficiency in mind there would be less "Need"
>....
>
>
>Yeah, but being in California, those homes cost a bundle these days.
>
>One thing that has sprung up in lean times, over and over again, is
>victory gardens. There was a school garden movement at the turn of
>the century (19th to 20th!), and victory gardens were popular and
>productive in the U.S. during both the first and second world wars.
>The community gardening movement, if you can call it that, has
>persisted and is a terrific way for urban/suburban gardeners to grow
>food.
>
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