[sustainableri] Re: very important! MUCH!
- From: stephen hargrove <stephenhargrove@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sustainableri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:49:34 -0700 (PDT)
Any progress made on partnering with South Side? I was under the impression
this was probably going to happen, we'd have a communal garden and share the
costs (which would be considerably less than last year). It will be great
however it works out but I'm holding onto the dream of the whole space being
the Fertile Underground communal garden.
-Steve the Red
--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Andrea Starr <starr.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Andrea Starr <starr.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [sustainableri] Re: very important! MUCH!
To: sustainableri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 8:15 PM
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 BUSINESS
--andrea
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