[Community_garden] U.S. Survey of Community Gardens

[Lenny Librizzi]

Sandy,
About a year ago I submitted the NYC list for inclusion but it took several attempts because our database has different fields of information than the ACGA database. Most of the gardens are now up on the ACGA list as well as a NYC site 
http://www.oasisnyc.net/gardens/cenycmapsearch.asp.

There is a problem with updating the ACGA site. At this point I cannot update any listings. I used my name as the contact because I did not want to put any garden contact names and e-mails up without permission. I hoped to turn over updating each individual listing to someone from the individual garden if they requested. This did happen with one garden but since they updated their information I have lost my access to update any others. Someone at the ACGA office was working on this. The problem is that the ACGA site is actually being hosted by Urban Harvest so there are several layers of folks to go thru to coordinate this. 
Just a small example of the possible technical difficulties in coordinating a national survey of Cgs.
None the less I have been advocating for this for many years. I will offer my support on getting the NYC part together but I can't take the lead on the overall project 

Lenny


Lenny Librizzi
Council on the Environment
51 Chambers Street room 228
NY,NY 10007
212-788-7927 phone
212-788-7913 fax
llibrizzi at cenyc.org
www.cenyc.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Pernitz [mailto:Sandy.Pernitz at Seattle.Gov]
Sent: Thu 5/1/2008 2:41 PM
To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org; Diana Liu; Elizabeth Johnson; Steven Garrett; William McKelvey Jr.
Cc: jkim at advanceproj.org; ydsavio at ucdavis.edu; Marc Davidson
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] U.S. Survey of Community Gardens
 
Thanks for the clarification, but that would mean we would need to enter 69 gardens on to your website instead of linking to our website which lists them already.  Maybe I could slowly do this but if someone has any other suggestions that would be most helpful.


 
Thanks for your time,
Sandy Pernitz
Community Garden Coordinator
P-Patch Community Gardening Program/Sustaining Grounds for Community Growing
"Life as a whole expresses itself as a force that is not to be contained within any one part."  Goethe
PO Box 94649
Seattle, WA 98124-4649
sandy.pernitz at seattle.gov
206-684-0284
office location: Department of Neighborhoods/700 5th Avenue Suite 1700




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