[sustainableri] Re: very important! MUCH!
- From: Andrea Starr <starr.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sustainableri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:15:27 -0400
Hi,
So, the nice thing about having the whole garden be communal is that you can
plant much more efficiently, keep track of crop rotations, and actually
practice AGRICULTURE as opposed to GRowing vegetables as a HOBBY. Like, we
were on our way to making it sort of like a communal FARM, which would be
unique thing in Providence, while Yarrow seems to want to make it like the
other community gardens, which is fine...it's just not the same thing.
Does he realize that the current beds get the best sun, and that most of the
other beds that get built will not have equal sunlight? It won't be fair to
charge the same amount of money to people who aren't a part of our group if
Fertile Underground gets first dibs on those good beds. And by communally
gardening the whole site rather than individual beds, we are able to take
advantage of the various microclimates of the site, manage crop rotations,
etc. Things that affect the bountifulness of the harvest. We got a LOT of
food out that garden last year because we were able to plant relatively huge
amounts of each crop we had, as opposed to just a few of each, which would
have been the case if we tried to do "personal" or "individual" bed -style
urban gardening. And I learned a lot about how we could improve on what we
did produce, as I'm hoping others of you did as well.
I'm all for opening it up to more people than just us, but only if they're
really serious about it. There is nothing that bugs me more than seeing a
bunch of overgrown, unharvested, half-hearted hobby gardens taking up space
where there could be serious amounts of food being produced.
But in the end, as long as I get enough space to plant my corn, I"m going to
be happy. CRON IS SERIOUS
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--andrea
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