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modom (palindrome guy) wrote:

>
>> "modom (palindrome guy)" wrote:
>>> The community garden plugs along. We'll plant this spring or I'll die
>>> trying.

>>

> Mission: Our mission is to support community gardening by building
> community participation, civic pride, and awareness of benefits to the
> environment and individual health. We will provide opportunities to
> learn about food production, generate produce for individual
> participants and the impoverished, and demonstrate sustainable land
> stewardship.
>
> Individual members of the community will lease plots and grow what
> they want in them with the advice of the master gardener and the
> county extension service.
>
> An established local group called Cereal Crops Research, Inc. will
> plant and maintain larger plots of corn, beans, peas, edamame, etc.
>
> A workshop on composting and selecting tomato varieties appropriate to
> our soil and climate is scheduled in the coming weeks. Discussion is
> underway regarding cooking and preserving classes in the large kitchen
> of a nearby church. Other events may happen as the project develops.
> --



That sounds like a very worthwhile project. I wish you success.
One caveat: It might be worth mentioning to new gardeners that it is
not worth planting vegetables that you will not eat. (Strange things are
done in the interest of "companion planting".)

gloria p