Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>]

I have never shared a community garden.  Whenever I have gardened it has been on my own land but I truly love to see community gardens.  Every time I have come across one the appeal to me is the variety and the feeling of individuality in each little plot.  You may be right about people having a common ground and respect for each other.  One community garden I enjoyed seeing a clip about was started in NYC by a black man who dreamed about making a garbage laden empty lot into a garden.  He did and others in the community came and helped and shared but he was in charge and made the rules.  Perhaps the city being in charge is not the best way to go but rather as you say, a commited community .Anna

Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
> 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. 
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> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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> On 5/29/2008 at 7:57 PM yarrow@sfo.com wrote:
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> >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
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> >food.
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