[Community_garden] theft prevention

[Alliums]

Ian -- 

You have to break it down better than that if we are going to help you.
What kind of thefts, when and how?

If folks aren't harvesting, then other folks worry that things are going to
waste and "help themselves."  We have a rule in our garden that if you don't
harvest and it's ripe, we pick it and give it to the food bank.  Folks may
grumble, but they learn to communicate and/or harvest at the right time
(you'd be surprised how some folks don't realize what "ripe" is), but with
the harvest going to the food bank, they don't mind so much.

Garden design does a lot to discourage theft.  What are your perimeters
like?  What is being stolen?  If you put melons in the front where everyone
can see them, they will walk.

Tell us more and we can give you better advice.
Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth

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St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA  19460