[Community_garden] Dear NV - It's Called "unsubscribe,"

Fri Oct 13 20:46:19 EST 2006

 Cher NV -

You need to unsubscribe from the community garden list serve. You're not having fun here. 

This is the link: 

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Please do this NV..you don't seem to be enjoying the party, and we do have a designated driver to take you home. 

Again:  
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For those who want to stay, anyone  for snacks and cute little drinks with decorative fruit things on them?

Cheers, 
Adam from New York. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nvrealtor64 at aol.com
To: jsalans at aol.com; jhammett at hopeministriesbr.org; community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] What comes first?

PLEASE STOP EMAILING MY ADDRESS. I DID NOT REQUEST ANY INFORMATION.  YOU AND 
YOUR PEOPLE ARE SPAMMING MY EMAIL ADDRESS.  PLEASE STOP. 

 MR64

-----Original Message-----
From: jsalans at aol.com
To: jhammett at hopeministriesbr.org; community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] What comes first?

Secure your funding while going out to the community to drum up business.
Here in Sunnyvale, we were offered a large grant to build a community garden. It 

took us two years to secure the land and build an agreement with the City over 
building and maintaining the garden (they gave us the land for five years - we 
did the rest). During those two years we were constantly out in the public 
seeking support, getting people to join our email list, come to weekly meetings, 

and generally support our efforts so when we went before council we had a ground 

swell of support. When we asked or volunteers to actually construct the garden 
(only one contractor was hired to uproot dead trees and drive the heavy 
machinery to level the land, as well as put in the main irrigation line), we got 

weekends of 30-40 volunteers to help build the gardens. I believe this came from 

our efforts at gaining public support for the garden.

We now have 87 families gardening our leased beds. And many, many more coming to 

just stroll through the beauty that is our new civic center community garden; 
Charles Street Gardens.

Thanks for asking,

Josh
President
Sustainable Community Gardens
Google Maps to see the site at 433 Charles St Sunnyvale CA  

-----Original Message-----
From: jhammett at hopeministriesbr.org
To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] What comes first?

Hello all, I am new to this listserv.  I am intrigued by Adam's question of
"What comes first?"  The neighborhood/community interest in a garden or the
garden itself?  I am employed by an NPO that operates a food pantry in Baton
Rouge, LA, as well as a mentoring program aimed at stabilizing low-income
families housing situations.  We are currently contemplating starting a
community garden here at HOPE.  We are blessed with quite a bit of flat,
sunny land on a busy urban street (the most underutilized land in the
neighborhood, in fact).  We would like to grow a garden in order to stock
fresh produce in our food pantry as well as to bring the community together
in the realization that they do have the power to take control of their diet
and not be so reliant on the corporate-based food distribution system
currently operating in our country.  But here's the rub?  Do we go out and
secure a large grant, hire a Gardening Coordinator, build raised beds and
then throw a planting party, inviting the neighborhood? Or do we build
grassroots support for the garden and make it more of a neighborhood project
from the start?  I am tend to favor option #2, but this is the long-run
approach and could take a very long time.  Whereas we are a well-established
organization which does have the resources (and access to resources) to
build a garden in a much more expeditious fashion.  So what to do?  I would
love it for those of you on this list to hash it out with me.  Ready, set,
go!

Jonathan M. Hammett

Case Worker

Family Mentoring Program

United Methodist HOPE Ministries

(225) 355-0702 ext. 28

(225) 357-6351 fax 

jhammett at hopeministriesbr.org

The mission of United Methodist HOPE Ministries is to coordinate ministries,
provide resources & establish relationships that help the people we serve
move toward self-sufficiency with dignity.

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