Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[yarrow@sfo.com]

At 11:14 PM -0600 5/29/08, Tradingpost wrote:
> Well, if it's been going for 30 years then somebody made it work. 
> Interesting tho that it uses writen leases and at times it's ended 
> up in court.

It's organized anarchy in practice.

When a litigious person with entitlement issues doesn't want to 
follow the rules, all it takes is the threat of lawyering up to get 
the city to back down. As far as I can tell, the city mostly objects 
to the waste of staff time in court.

I like what I've read about the British allotment gardens (though 
those seem to be on the decline) and the Russian dacha gardens -- 
being able to live in a city or town and have a large piece of land 
to grow food. Also there's the relatively new movement of Ringing 
Cedars sustainable communities in Russia.