[Community_garden] Urban Community Garden.

[Bill Goedecke]

You may try to get a hold of Willow of City Slickers Farm in West Oakland,
CA.  Check out their sweet website -
http://www.cityslickerfarms.org/index.htm.

Bill Goedecke, San Francisco, SFGRO
www.sfgro.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Dellwo [mailto:kdellwo at netzero.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 1:32 PM
To: American Community Garden Assos. listserve
Cc: Pat Munts
Subject: [Community_garden] Urban Community Garden.

We are just beginning an Urban Garden Project in Spokane.  It is in a poor
but unique neighborhood near downtown Spokane.  We are "a scattered site"
community garden--using yard space from private property owners and
churchyards. We plan to clean up and throw seed into vacant lots, encourage
people to garden in their yards and develop gardens at these different
"scattered" locations in the neighborhood.  We will find caring people who
will garden a spot at one of our sites and who be willing to nurture a young
person or two.  This spring we hope to be ready to hire 4-6 youth out of
drug court--and to have a summer garden camp.  We plan to develop small
roadside stands in the neighborhood to sell some of the produce that the
gardeners donate, and or, a central Market in the neighborhood.  We are just
starting out but with a lot of community support.
Does anyone you know have a community garden project that is similar that we
might learn from?  We are in contact with Boise, Missoula and Olympia.



Kathy Dellwo
Riverfront Farm
2605 W.Boone Ave
Spokane, WA  99201
509-325-3104
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