[net-gold] INDOOR GARDENING : URBAN GARDENING: A High-Impact Harvest
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- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:45:34 -0400 (EDT)
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INDOOR GARDENING :
URBAN GARDENING:
A High-Impact Harvest
A High-Impact Harvest
Little backyard farm gardens, USDA-funded and Philadelphia
Green-organized, are also nourishing a community.
By Virginia A. Smith
Inquirer Staff Writer
Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/
20100730_A_high-impact_harvest.html
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Cindy Bly gardens in the tiny yard behind her rowhouse in Lawncrest. You
wouldn't imagine she's, literally, in the produce business, but she is.
This summer, Bly, a dispatcher in SEPTA's track department, is selling her
kale, collard greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplants to Weavers Way in
Mount Airy. Every two weeks, the food co-op's refrigerated truck comes by
to pick up the vegetables and drop off a check for $20 or so.
"It's not the money. I just love to do this," says Bly, 51, who also
donates vegetables to her uncle's senior citizen complex.
Bly's yard, all planted except for a small deck and gazebo with a table in
the middle, is about 13 feet wide and 24 feet deep. That makes it the
smallest of the first 15 gardens enrolled in the City Harvest Growers
Alliance, an urban food-growing program funded over the next three years
with a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The program is run by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's
Philadelphia Green, an old hand at urban gardening. It requires
participants to sell their fresh produce to restaurants and markets, and
donate a portion to food cupboards and other nonprofits.
Either way, these gardeners are running small - in Bly's case, very small
- food enterprises. And, at least for the bigger growers, says Joan
Reilly, Philadelphia Green senior director, "it's an interesting, safe way
to learn how to be an urban farmer. It can test their desire to do that."
Alliance grower Amanda Staples has the desire, for sure.
In 2005, she and her husband, Matt McFarland, started a community garden
on six vacant lots in Kensington. In 2007, they interned on a Lancaster
County farm. Today, they live in a huge cooperative house in Germantown
owned by a friend and garden on the half-acre lot next door, which they
own.
The lot had been abandoned for 30 years when Staples and McFarland bought
it in 2008, and it's still not completely cleared. But the 15-foot-high
tangles of multiflora rose are gone, as are the two trashed ice-cream
trucks that were buried under runaway vines and weeds.
"We had a scrapper come and take them away on a flatbed truck," says
Staples, 30. "It was really crazy."
On the cleared part of the lot, the couple have 10 raised beds, each 25
feet long and a few feet wide, filled with chard, tomatoes, collards,
kale, squash, beets, turnips, peppers, scallions, cucumbers, eggplants,
potatoes, and beans.
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