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Garden: Vancouver City Hall Community Garden
On March 4, Mayor Gregor Robertson announced that a portion of City Hall lawn will be converted into a community garden. The idea to grow local food on the grounds of City Hall is the first “Quick Start” recommendation to come from the Greenest City Action Team. This announcement is a symbol of the City’s commitment to develop 2010 community garden plots by 2010, as an Olympic legacy.
Garden: Edith Morley Park Community Garden
The Community Garden is located at Edith Morley Park, 615 Campbell Technology Parkway. The approximate ½ acre garden site has 39 - 10x20 garden plots. Community garden plots are available for Campbell residents who want to have a garden to plant vegetables, herbs or flowers, but don't have a suitable site where they live. Plots are issued on a year-to-year and first-come-first served basis, with a limit of one plot per family. There is a $30.00 annual fee. This covers watering costs and upkeep of the garden. Currently, there is a waiting list. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please contact Diana Johnson at (408) 866-2145 between the hours of 7:00 AM and 3:30 PM Monday thru Friday, or email gardens@cityofcampbell.com .
Garden: Citizen Schools at Campbell Middle School Gar
A garden planted by 5th, 6th, & 7th-graders at Campbell Middle School with the assistance of a community volunteer working in partnership with the Citizen Schools after school program. The onions are doing the best...
Garden: Apartment Garden
My apartment building's community planting ground. Not much, but hopefully someday it will be.
Garden: Banksville Community Garden
The drivers who travel along Rt 279 Parkway West have a special treat outside their window: a beautiful garden created by selfless volunteers. Instead of having chip bags, beer cans, and cigarette butts to keep them company as they drive they now have Marigold bonanza orange, Rudbeckia prairie sun, Salvia victoria blue, Zinnia state fair mix.
Garden: Oakland Community Garden
The legendary Carnegie Museum now has a beautiful garden, plotted and planted by volunteers, along side it. Marigold first lady, Vinca sun devil extreme orchid are the flowers planted.
Garden: Herb Garden on Arleta Avenue
The Herb Garden on Arleta Avenue is one of five adjacent thematic parks that comprise the ambitious Visitation Valley Greenway Project. In its entirety, the Greenway functions as an outdoor classroom and recreation area beautifying the landscape and uniting the diverse groups and generations of Visitacion Valley. This parkland incorporates a native plant garden, children's play garden, various fruit and street trees, public art made by school children and community members, agricultural crops, herb gardens, a Senior Pavilion, job training, and horticultural classes.
Garden: Parramore Community Garden
This community plot has rallied together a community and produced some romaine lettuce in the process. Located in Parramore, FL, this garden has vegetables of all varieties.
Garden: Rose Circle Community Garden
In Atlanta, residents around the Rose Circle area have a place to grow their own produce: the Rose Circle community garden. In 2007, squash blossom, pumpkin, zucchini, tomatoes, cabbage, bean and cabbage plants, fennel, herbs and flowers, tall vines growing on trellises, and various garden beds were grown in their little piece of earth.
Garden: East Dallas Community Garden
The East Dallas Community, made up of Cambodian and Lao gardeners, grow vegetables, and then sell them to make up for the cost of tools, soil, and all the other expenses. Many times, its the money issues that can dissolve a community garden. These gardeners have put some thought into how a community garden works, and have divised a successful plan.
Garden: George Wyant Community Garden
George Wyant Community Garden is a place for the residents of Phoenix, AZ to harvest whatever they like. The Phoenix Police Department has been supporting the George Wyant Community Garden by ways of grants. Without these grants the garden would not be able to buy tools, etc.
Garden: Churchill Community Garden
The Churchill community garden serves three purposes: school garden, community garden, and food bank garden. Churchill is the collaborative brainchild of several organizations in Eugene. The school district owns the land and provides wate; the Churchill Area Neighbors and the City of Eugene helped start the garden in 2001; and FOOD for lane county, the local food bank; manages the 1 acre garden, coordinates the 58 plots and gather together the volunteers to collect the beautiful, organic produce they grow. It's a beautiful thing.
Garden: Fairview Christian Church Garden
Fairview Church Garden was on the Kansas City Urban Farms and Gardens tour for 2009, July 28! We are a community vegetable garden(using organic practices), Youth Garden 50 x 50, supported by the Missouri Extension office and Missouri Master gardeners, some raised bed areas with flowers and vegetables, 4 plots for local gardeners, roughly 20 x 20 with main garden about 340 x 40, growing tomatoes, mostly hierlooms, (cherokee purple, amana orange, carolina gold). We also have Peppers(bells, jalapenos, anahiems, cherrys), Eggplant, Kale, Swiss Chard, Corn, Potatoes(purples, pontiac, klondike), Greenbeans, Squash, Cucumblers, Okra(burgandy), Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Onions, and Garlic. Whewwww.... we have a few herbs...Dill, Chives, Parsley, Basil(green, christmas, red) Horseradish, Mint(chocolate and apple), lastly Borage. Flowers such as marigolds, zinnias, petunias, and nasturtium.
Garden: Boxes and Pots
The yard is in an older area and had been let go for a few years. My garden consists of 3 square boxes and 3 long planters plus several pots of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Vegetables are peas, carrots, cucumber, peppers, eggplant, broccoli, lettuce, radish, onions and tomatoes. I planted rhubarb in the yard as well. I also have 2 small flowerbeds. I also have most of a garden plot in one of the community gardens. I haven't been in it for about a week so I'm not sure what's going on with it. Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, carrots, onions, beets, turnips, cucumbers, squash and pumpkin. If I get much of a crop I'm going to have to buy another freezer! I'm quite excited to see how things do. I planted several things that I never have before.
Garden: Bay Area Newspaper Group's "Our Garden"
"Our Garden" is a community and demonstration garden created by the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune newspapers and the Contra Costa Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners. The goal is to educate both beginning and advanced gardeners on the best techniques for growing their own vegetables, and to help feed the hungry. Produce grown in the garden is being donated to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. (Source: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ourgarden/ci_12495833 )
Garden: The People's Portable Garden
The Wasatch Community Garden in Salt Lake City is responsible for creating the People's Community Garden. As a portable garden, this community plot has been set up in a way that it can be easily moved. Once the community has gotten together, learned how to grow delicious organic produce, the People's Community garden can be moved to another neighborhood where they might still be in the dark about the art of gardening.
Garden: The PEAS farm
The Program in Ecological Agriculture and Society (PEAS)through the University of Montana set up this community farm in 2001. In its first year, the PEAS farm produced 52,000 pounds of produce, which was then delivered to low-income families. PEAS works closely with both the Missoula Food Bank and Garden City Harvest, two organization who share PEA's passion for growing produce.
Garden: little slice of heaven
A first time gardener at best. Who knew gardening could be such a joy. My little slice of heaven aka plot is located in a community garden and measures 10' x 20'. Its strictly organic, I swear by sea soil and fish fertilizer.
Garden: Acequia and Waffle Community Gardens
The Santa Fe Community Gardens organization and Railyard Park have come together to create the Railyard Acequia garden, which will be on the south end of the park and will include 19 plots. The Waffle Garden will be a demonstration of traditional agricultural techniques. Designed by the Santa Fe master gardeners association, this garden will harvest traditional crops. The crops will then be donated to the local food bank. They need volunteers, so if you're in Santa Fe they'd love to see you show up with your garden trowl!
Garden: 7th Street Garden
This garden is founded and managed by the Jefferson Community Cooperation Extension Service. It grows organic produce. The 7th Street Garden started off as an empty lot, weedy and neglected, and has since blossomed into a useful, productive garden.
Garden: 1st attempt in a community garden
This is my first attempt this year, with a veggie garden. So far so good, almost everything has grown, except celery and leeks, but I planted them too late. I should have started them indoors, too.
Hopefully, weather permits (so far July has been colder and rainier than usual), I'll get some good veggies out of it.
I'll repeat the experience in my private yard next year, as I have just bought my first home.
Garden: Vivian's Colony Farm Plot
1st year Community Plot - July 2009. Assorted vegetables, berries and a little lavender to attract the bees.
Garden: Target Community Garden
For 15 years, this garden has been an important resource in improving the safety and quality of life in this Bedford-Stuyvesant community. A local elementary school and several families are currently involved in the maintenance of the garden. During 2004, these residents raised funds to support the site's use for gatherings, workshops, and as a learning garden by neighborhood school children.
Target is generously supporting the restoration of the garden and selected nationally acclaimed garden designer and horticulturist Sean Conway to provide the garden design. Since 1998, Conway has helped to create the garden centers in Target stores and also designed the gardens at the Target corporate headquarters in Minneapolis. He has also been a frequent guest on Martha Stewart Living and is the co-executive producer and host of Cultivating Life on PBS.
Garden: Desert Oasis
Due to our desert community we have our majot color gardens in the winter. The ever green part of our garden is low water maintanence. We have seasonal color plants for the summer.
Garden: Chris and Irene's Allotment Garden Plot
20' x 50' rectagular community allotment garden at the Agnes Street Community Garden in Saanich, BC, Canada.
Garden: Guerrilla Garden, Central KCK
On partly wooded vacant lot, somewhat hilly, with spring, overgrown and lots of poison ivy, has been used for informal dumping.
Ted Zerger (Salina, KS) says, "find the worst lot in the worst neighborhood and that will make the best community garden."
Well, this may be the worst lot in the neighborhood, but it is really a great urban neighborhood, mixed housing stock, nice diversity of income, education level and ethnic/racial origins. And the potential of garden partners with neighbors, nearby churches and businesses, elementary school, high school -- an ideal place to "pioneer" like Johnny Appleseed.
Anyone know the origins of the P-Gardens in Seattle?
Garden: Mother Earth's Community Garden
We are the first community garden in Fort Smith. We grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers, but most of all, we grow friendships. We plan on starting an orchard this fall. We have just about completed our children's garden and are getting ready to build our own greenhouse from recycled wooden windows. Our composting area will be completely reworked this fall.
We show movies in our garden and have all types of parties. We have our own firepit and kitchen area with a regular grill and a cooking pit. We showcase the arts and our artists. If you are in the region, come downtown to the garden. We're located at the corner of North 9th and D Streets and our gate is always open.
Garden: Beausejour Daylily Gardens
Beausejour, Manitoba
Beausejour Daylily Gardens located in the town of Beausejour, Manitoba, 46 km north-east of Winnipeg. This two-acre community garden has something blooming from spring to snowfall.The Zone 2b Beausejour Daylily Gardens is the only American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Display Garden on the prairies; the perfect place to test any tree or plant. It is also home to the most amazing collection of iris and peonies. We presently have over 550 Daylilies cultivars and over 150 Lily varieties.We are also an official Lily Display Garden documented with Manitoba Regional Lily Society. However, there is far more to the Beausejour Daylily Gardens than just daylilies.
Perhaps the greatest benefit has been the Garden Angel Program. Although the Friends of the Beausejour Daylily Gardens are responsible for the planning that goes into the park, and the Town provides some maintenance, it is the “Garden Angels:” who maintain the park to AHS Display Garden standards. Each section has a folk art sign with it’s number and the name of the Angel looking after it.
Garden: Midleton Community Gardening
This is a previously neglected area in front of a parade of shops which is being "renovated" by a volunteer group from the Midleton Transition Town Project. We are a group of like-minded people with an interest in global issues such as Climate Change, recycling and encouraging self-sufficiency by growing your own herbs and vegetables. The object of the gardening excercise is to increase awareness and interest in growing herbs and other beneficial plants in addition to providing colour and interest to an uncared for area.
The shoppers and other local people are free to help themselves to seeds and to take and use the herbs, flowers etc. in the hope that they will develop an interest in growing their own produce.
Garden: The Yarden
In 2006 we bought a "yard with a house attached to it" and in 2007 our Yarden was installed and growing. We now have 1700 square feet of organic raised beds, espalier fruit trees and various other interesting edible things. This is season three and this magical space has become a hub for parties, classes and community activity. Gardening really builds friendships! People are amazed when we share with them how to plant things, the importance of seed diversity or the simple joy of cooking what you grow. Every year we have more and more volunteers who join us for our planting party Memorial Day weekend and hang around through the season to see "their" plants growing. It has been a great experience. We will be teaching classes in the winter/spring of 2010 so others in Chicago can learn from our mistakes (ha!) and have their own back or front yard oasis. Check out our blog at theyarden.com or via our fan page on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. We are on a Yarden journey - join us!
Garden: Earth-Sheltered Garden
Welcome to the Earth-Sheltered (Community) Garden...a living space for development of produce to eat and people to meet.
We are developing the 3 C's---Community Garden...Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Commerce (Farmer's Market near by).
Started by Rebecca (Becky) Weitzel and Jeff Waschkowski and On The Edge Enterprises, Inc. We live in a concrete earth-sheltered next to the properties we are purchasing and developing into the Earth-Sheltered (Community) Garden in Omaha, Nebraska USA. We want to share our skills and resources and ask others to join us to continue to celebrate residential and commercial diversity and harmony.
On The Edge lives an active lifestyle. We are interested in fitness of body (Above The Bar fitness software), fitness of technology (Microsoft Certified Partner), fitness of property (ours and others) and fitness of resources (keeping it green).
Garden: La Manzanilla Community Garden
La Manzanilla, Jalisco Mexico's first community garden. 14 plots, 1000's of seeds and we will see!
Garden: Winston Smoyer Memorial Community Garden
The Winston Smoyer Memorial Community Garden boasts nearly 100 individual garden sites that are tended by individual gardeners, who enjoy planting fresh flowers and garden vegetables. They also enjoy getting together once a month for informative monthly meetings and workshops on gardening.
The Garden is named after Winston Smoyer, a retired Alhambra High School teacher, who was one of the most arden Alhambra Community gardeners in its history. He loved his plot, and provided friends with a never-ending supply of fresh vegetables, including some of the largest zucchini known to Alhambra. He was also a community activist, serving as long-time President and Curator of the Alhambra Historical Society, member of the Board of the Alhambra Day Nursery, member of the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce (where he won the Chamber's prestigious "Citizen of the Year" award), and other community organizations.
Garden: Potrero Hill Community Garden
Established in the early 1970s, the Potrero Hill Community Garden is one of 40 gardens operating under the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Membership is open to any resident of the city.
Located on a once-vacant lot above the slopes where the "Goat Lady" of Potrero Hill used to graze her herd, the garden now consists of 50 plots and common areas maintained by local residents using only organic methods.
The garden boasts of panoramic views of the Mission, Twin Peaks, and beyond. Its sunny, Mediterranean climate permits cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals, including dahlias -- the official flower of San Francisco. (Source: http://www.potrerogarden.org )
Garden: Oregon Sage and Pine
Mine is a high desert environment. NOT the sand and cactus that many think of when we say "desert" but the sagebrush-steppe of the Northern Great Basin. We have an arid dry climate also filled with thick stands of Ponderosa Pine tree forests about 12 miles north of our small pleasant rural community. I have loved gardening all of my life and concentrate on herbs, perennials and edibles for thier food and esthetic value.
A photographer and writer I also love using my garden and garden products in my art.
I also LOVE friends who garden and love to learn about garden efforts of folks in differing climates and environments.
Regards,
Mari
Garden: Oakwood Manor Community Garden
Students of Oakwood Manor Elementary School, in partnership with Gladstone City's Senior Gardeners Project, engage in organic vegetable and flower growing to learn about plants, soil and water conservation, composting and recycling, good nutrition, and community service.
Garden: Cheyenne Botanic Gardens
Outside spread over eight acres are many gardens featuring perennials, annuals, wildflowers, roses, herbs, and cacti. Some specialty areas include a nationally recognized inspirational Peace Garden, rose garden, herb garden, cacti garden, two community vegetable gardens, lily pond, sensory garden, and the Discovery Pond and educational wetland area. Connecting many gardens is the Western Walkway featuring 170 livestock brands set into the concrete walk. The walkway connects the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens grounds to the Old West Museum, where the vitality, drama and romance of life in the West comes alive.
Along the Western Walkway is a unique series of three landscaped plazas known as the Rotary Century Plazas. Each plaza interprets life in southeast Wyoming over the past three centuries (1700’s, 1800’s and 1900’s). Each plaza includes sculpted benches, historic plants and other interpretations explaining life in each century. The Rotary Century Plazas also include Wyoming’s oldest locomotive that is surrounded by a historic folk art fence. Adjacent to the 1900’s plaza is a restored 1928 FarmAll tractor and an educational shelterbelt planting.
Source: http://www.botanic.org/More_Details.asp
Garden: West Virginia Botanic Gardens
Imagine beautifully landscaped gardens reflecting on a shimmering pond. Trails weave from bright flowering meadows into a cool, shaded woodland. Streams sparkle beneath stately hemlocks. Some visitors stand silently, resting in the splendor of the vista; others energetically explore this wonderful community resource this wonderful community resource, the West Virginia Botanic Garden.
Begun as only a dream in 2000, the WVBG is on its way to becoming a reality on the 82-acre former Tibbs Run Reservoir property off the Tyrone Road in Monongalia County, WV. The former 15-acre basin will be transformed into two smaller pools with islands and aquatic plant displays. The old water works, still present, will stand as a link to the past.
The WVBG will feature a large variety of plants appropriate to the region's climate and soils in both designed and natural settings. Visitors will learn from these gardens in every season of the year.
Source: http://www.wvbg.org/mission.html
Garden: Kapiolani Community College Cactus Garden
This cactus garden was created by student/volunteer Moriso Teraoka in the late 1980s. The landscaped hillside contains an impressive assortment of cacti donated by members of the Cactus and Succulent Society. No admission charge.
Garden: Kapiti Coast Miracle in the Making
A sandy backyard under conversion to a productive home orchard and vegie patch through mulch, manure and love. Learning what grows, what dies and what thrives in Kapiti. Putting in a rainwater tank, a hothouse and much more in year to come. Looking to help with local Raumati community garden and learn from local gardeners with more experience with coastal gardening.
Garden: Rollandet Community Garden
The Idaho Falls Community Garden is about growing - growing flowers, growing vegetables and fruits, and growing a community of people who can share their love of gardening while taking good care of our small part of the earth. The Rollandet Community Garden is one of the IFCG's three gardens. It offers wheelchair accessible raised beds.
Source: http://www.srv.net/%7Eklack/Garden/about.htm
Garden: Elko County Rose Garden
Begun in 2000, this garden was created as an ever changing, staged, community garden. It is located in Elko, Nevada, behind the Elko County Courthouse at the corner of 6th and Pine streets.
The primary objective is to create a garden that contains a collection of winter hardy, easy care roses. The goal is to identify and collect those roses that like living and thrive in Elko's climate, a USDA hardiness zone 5A (average annual minimum temperature of -15 to -20 degrees Fahrenheit). Pot-O-Gold? The red brick building with the white trim - at the end of the rainbow - is Elko's main branch of Bank of America.
Source: http://www.elkorose.com/
Garden: St. Andrew Community Garden
Seven years ago, Pastor Brent Long and church members decided to create a community garden and labyrinth. Now, there are 72, 8-foot square plots.
Gardeners are required to share a minimum of 10% of their harvest. The church also grows food to donate to the Billings Food Bank or Montana Rescue Mission.
Source: http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/51651547.html
Garden: Urban Food Forest
This is a double lot in town that is all rock, will become raised bed and container garden designed along permaculture principles. One plot will be a community garden for local food bank.
Garden: Simunye Ngothando
A permaculture demonstration site nearly two years old, on old grazing land. There are chicken tractor systems, vermicomposting, composting, fruit trees, seed harvesting, nursery...and some pretty garden areas, too! We offer training, support and invite people to join us on community gardening days.
Our organisation is called The Foundation for Food, Life and Growth; we focus on sustainable living and things that nourish people's spirits as well.
Garden: Stichting B.a.d - garden
Community garden in a former inner schoolyard. It is a green oase which is used by the artist who live and work now at the place.
Garden: My community and yard garden
I am doing edible landscape at home and veggies at the community garden. One can never have enough garden friends.
Garden: Flowers & Gifts by The Garden Girls
We have a gardening business that is ten years old. About a dozen women of all ages go out in teams of two and tend gardens all over Simcoe County in Southern Ontario.
Garden: Healthy Kidz Minnie St. Garden
The garden was started in the spring of 2008 as a project of two churches (Rosedale United Church of Christ and St. Paul AME Zion) in the Rosedale area of Kansas City Kansas. An empty lot, made available by a 'Good Neighbor' allowed the garden to come to life. Their mission was to make available healthy food options for the folks living in the immediate area. In the fall of '08 volunteers from another church joined them. (Rainbow Mennonite)
In the summer of 2009 we started a small "Farmer's Market" on the church parking lot. We also harvest and sell to individuals at different times. Some of the veggies are given away.
The UCC Church was host to the Healthy Kids Initiative Day Camp in August. The kids walked to the garden and were able to see first hand how their vegetables grow. They then were able to "pick" and fill their baskets.
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Garden: http://www.ginatnoy.co.il
independent website that was established in memory of the horrors of the late Ruth Benjamin in the first leading agronomists, who ran the ornamental farm for many years until his death prematurely. Acclimatization devoted her life to new plants and distributing in the country. Most of the existing house plants in Israel have the brought down and ornamental Htaklmotm here to experience its dedicated staff
The purpose of this site to share the knowledge accumulated over years of work clearly and simple to anyone interested in adding knowledge and centralize existing gardener in a simple matter
Garden: Lakeside grove miniature garden
Refer to www.gardenoftony@blogspot.com
We build our very own Chinese and Japanese Garden known as Lakeside grove mimiature garden.
Garden: Avant Garden Intermediae-Matadero
Avant Garden es un jardín urbano ideado por atelier le balto, una rosaleda de carácter salvaje, un jardín compartido por visitantes, creadores, paseantes... un lugar de convivencia e intercambio, de aprendizaje, disfrute y reposo.
Avant Garden es una metáfora del proceso, un gesto que multiplicar y transformar y una plataforma desde la que investigar para proponer hábitats sostenibles a través de proyectos relacionados con la permacultura, que tienen lugar a lo largo de todo el año.
El último domingo de cada mes (12.00-14.00 horas) se organizan talleres para el cuidado del jardín, enfocados a indagar y profundizar en el concepto y la filosofía sobre la que atelier le balto diseñó el jardín.Abiertos a todos los públicos.Plazas limitadas.
Judy and Jerry C
We are Arkansas transplants from California by way of Montana. We love our community and enjoy spending time in the garden.
David R
Hello GardenJot community! I don't yet have a garden, although I have an interest in making one soon. Because I don't have the space it will probably have to be a pretty small fire-escape type setup.
bbb
An old Spanish proverb goes something like this.....more grows in the garden than the gardener sows........ Since I joined this group of gardeners last fall, I have found this to be very true. It's been a great experience. I'm an aging gardener, in more ways than one, and have found this to be just what i needed at this time in my life! We ARE a community garden.
Angela
I am a single parent to a 15 year old son. My son is home schooled. He was diagnosed with aspergers syndrome, and rather than put him on the cocktail of drugs the doctors wanted to give him to make life easier for his school, I withdrew him from school at age 7. We've been on a rich and healing journey together since, and now he is turning out to be a great kid, a real gift to me, and has taught me more than I'll ever be able to teach him lol. We live a simple but satisfying lifestyle on a very small "farm". I say farm because we have so many animals but really it's only just over 1000sm. (1/4 acre). Our animals are an integral part of our garden, We have 1 dog, -in charge of security! 2 goats - their job is to control the lawn in the back yard, eat any garden waste, hedge clippings etc, and look after the chickens. 5 cats, they keep the mice away - we used to have a major mice problem. 7 chickens, they recycle garden waste, eat bugs and supply us with eggs, and compost. Then there are the ten guinea pigs. Only started with 5, but they multiplied! they take care of all the lawn in the front garden. My garden is relatively new. Basically starting the vege garden from scratch. am planting lots of fruit trees, the plan is to grow an abundance of fruit and vege and feed my family and have a bit left over to supply the community. I recycle a lot, and use recycled materials in my garden as much as possible. Much of my garden is planted in tyres, my "tyre garden" :-)
misch
I'm a student, an artist, and I work at a plant nursery.... I have my long time childhood friend to thank for this opportunity to have my very own garden!!!! I am involved in a local community garden and am loving it immensely. Who knew gardening was my thing.
PHILLIPS
Inspired by Ted Zerger from Salina, KS (Ten Reasons why Mennonites should do community gardening, http://rainbowpeacejustice.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-ten-reasons-why-mennonites-should.html)
Jeff
Been gardening since I was a kid. Keep many house plants, keeps a yearly out door garden including mostly veg and roses + herbs. Mostly gets overgrown with weeds. Much too much room to work alone. Community style garden next year. Love starting from seed. Starting a minor seed bank.
GardenJot GardenBot
I take many forms and am currently the robot found on the roof garden of the The Ghibli Museum in Tokyo. I spend my time searching the web for public and community gardens to add to the GardenJot map.
Campbell Kiwanis Club, Crossings Community Church, Campbell Middle School, and Citizen Schools volunteers at the end of a morning working in
One park in a spine of 6 community parks that span 6 blocks and known as the Visitacion Valley Greenway. Each park is about a house lot wide
The aptly named Fireglow Euphorbia. I love the tall, dark red stalks and the glowing orange heads. This is one of the first plants that I placed into the garden after buying it and a few others from a neighbour at a community sale, but it proved to be very invasive so now I only plant it very carefully. I'm going to see how it does in large pots.
The greenhouse is open to the community. We can grown things in there if we wish, or borrow gardening tools. Its so handy.
Soon I will have to start a garden for our local Elementary School. The Development is in progress... Sadly it means the removal of a second growth forest. UniverCity's Elementary will have a rain garden. The school will follow gold LEED standards. I believe that with community input we can maximize the ecological diversity on the property and minimize negative impacts to systems lower on Burnaby Mountain.
