[Community_garden] Permanent versus Rotational Custody ofGardenPlot

[Ray Schutte]

A key essential in any organic gardeners experience is their relationship
with the soil.  It takes 3 to 4 years just to get really balanced and great
soil, and then what you just walk away.  Why bother.

Ray Schutte

"The truth of the matter is that the flower has cleverly manipulated the bee
into hauling its pollen from blossom to blossom." The Botany of Desire,
Michael Pollan

-----Original Message-----
From: community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org
[mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of
Betsy Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:40 PM
To: Jamie4fish at aol.com; community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Permanent versus Rotational Custody
ofGardenPlot

I know of no place where a rotational system is used.   The primary reason
for getting gardeners to obey garden rules and to help with overall garden
clean-up and activities is that they will otherwise not be allowed to renew
their plot.  A rotational system totally negates this enforcement mechanism.

Betsy

Betsy Johnson
11 1/2 Greenwich Park
Boston, MA 02118
617-536-1711    betsy at bgjohnson.com

-----Original Message-----
From: community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org
[mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of
Jamie4fish at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:54 PM
To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Subject: [Community_garden] Permanent versus Rotational Custody of
GardenPlot

Can anybody help me with the following issue: 
 
 
Our community garden  administrator (The City of San Ramon, CA) is proposing

to change the usage  rule of our garden plots from where there is one
operator 
of each plot  for an indefinite period of years (until eventually given up),

to a "rotational"  or lottery system approach where every gardener must give

up his/her plot each  and every year and start over, if he/she is lucky
enough 
to get a plot that  year. 
My fellow gardeners  and I are quite upset by this proposed change and many 
have indicated they will  not garden a plot where they may have to give it
up 
every year. They certainly  would not make the same type of investment in
their 
plots. Nothing about a  "rotational" method of plot gardening seems
conducive 
to establishing and  maintaining the true "community" sense of gardening
that 
we now have. 
Has anyone encountered  this "rotational" type of community garden 
management? How popular is it? Does  it work better than an "indefinite
duration" 
system? What have been the long  term results of a "rotational" system?  Any

insights from the membership  will be greatly appreciated.  
Thanks 
Jim Conner 
Crow Canyon  Gardens 



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