[Community_garden] 2007 Victory Gardens

[adam36055 at aol.com]

 - Another "2007 reason," to add to our new Victory Gardens. 
 
As so many in San Francisco, and California's senatorial delegation oppose the Iraq War, but support our troops ( and I'll take them on their word on this) it might be a marvelous source of funding to make part of the garden, or many of our gardens, accessible to folks with limited mobility, or the loss of a functional arm, leg, o "sense," or two .  
 
Some of us might create a scented corner of our gardens for the blind  http://www.bbg.org/exp/360/fragrance_small.html , as a number of our Iraq vets will be coming home blind from roadside bombs.  
 
Our reservists, more often that not, are working class folks who would benefit from having another accepting community to support them as they work to reintegrate as families after so many tours away from home.  
 
 Communiuty gardening cam be very  helpful to people creating a post-war life.  The work done in Minnesota community gardens and elsewhere with Hmong refugees would be well worth looking at in this regard. 
 
A good and welcoming community garden is a great place for demobilized vets to come to terms with the "world," again.  And unlike the Vietnam experience, where we villified our vets into so many isolating, self-destructive behaviors, we would actually show our real support for them as our sisters and brothers. 
 
We do hate the war, but support our troops, don't we?
 
 
And as one of the folks who worked hard to save the Bellevue Sobriety Garden in NYC ( http://www.saveourgarden.org/ ; http://www.communitygarden.org/advocacy.php ) I really know how a good garden can literally save the lives of people who start using chemical intoxicants as a crutch, or self treatment, and get sucked into full fledged addiction.  Lets learn from experience, this time, and use our gardens to prevent these further losses of our people. 
 
 Here are some links on  "enabled gardening," where the design of the garden facilitates the use of differently abled gardeners - 
 
Here is the Chicago Botanic Garden's Horticultural Therapy Page  http://www.chicagobotanic.org/therapy/index.php
 
and the Chicago Botanic's Buehler Enabling Garden 
 
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/explore/enabling
 
 
Best wishes, 
Adam Honigman
Hell's Kitchen
 
  
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: blair.randall at gmail.com
To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] VICTORY GARDEN THOUGHTS ANYONE


Hi There,

About the Victory Gardens, here in San Francisco an Artist, Amy
Franceschini, has a project at the SF Museum of Modern Art called Victory
Gardens 07.  It's an art piece and a plan to redo the WWII era victory
gardens for 2007 reasons (use less oil, fewer food miles, buy fresh, buy
local, etc).  Her website is:
http://www.futurefarmers.com/victorygardens/

I manage Garden for the Environment (
http://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/ ), San Francisco's only public
demonstration garden, and we are collaborating on the project.  If you have
any questions, please write myself or Amy.

Good Luck,

Blair Randall
Garden Education Program Manager
Garden for the Environment
415-731-5627
info at gardenfortheenvironment.org
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