[Community_garden] need to prove that many community gardens are on public land

[Don Boekelheide]

Hi, Rory,

In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Park and Recreation Department sponsors community gardens on public parkland, including the one where I garden (54 plots, average 20x20). There is a non-profit, church-based group that also sponsors gardens here, but some of these are also on public land, and run with public agency assistance.

You might also want to look at Portland, Oregon's Park and Recreation community gardening program.

Your critic sounds like Oscar the Grouch. Can't you 'buy them off' with some fresh tomatoes?

Don
http://urbanministrygarden.wordpress.com


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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:19:03 -0400
From: "Rory Cohen" <rorycohen at verizon.net>
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    are on    public land
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Friends:
 
We have a small (10-12 family) organic community garden, the first in a
park in cheltenham township, PA.  We've been operating for 5 seasons
now.
 
One of the neighbors thinks the garden is 'messy' and 'unsightly' and is
trying to get it shut down.
 
One of the arguments they are using is that the garden is in a public
park, and they say that most community gardens are on private or
institutional land.
 
this isn't true according to my research, but I need to gather more
examples of community gardens that are on park land.  Can you help?
 
Warmly,