[sustainableri] Re: very important! MUCH!
- From: "Dauna J. Noble" <daunajean@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sustainableri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:54:36 -0400
response to steve, but to all...
yes SS deal is coming thru and eliminating the 3000 tax bill that was our
rent. but, we never did pay for water last year and had to get all our own
materials and dirt. the deal this year is that there are to be many many
more beds, all built and dirted on yarrows wallet, free water, free seed
contraptions, building materials, all inclusive. He wants the garden to be
operating comparably moneywise, with other community gardens which in our
area is $40 per bed (4x8). if there are 40 beds that is $1600. If there
are 30 beds thats $1200. ?not sure yet how many we will have. I jusyt
devide that # by our membership. I think I forgot all inclusive when I did
the math and was figuring on some other expenses. So, highest price for 40
beds is $80. *More likely $60 per member for all the beds.* if there are 30
beds and 20 members. It is still half of what we paid last year, for WAY
more garden and resources.
I think Yarrow is just trying to build the garden in a sustainable fashion
and he is a little shaky about how well our group is going to hold up.( he
has not said that i just get the feeling) and he seems to be having a
personal explosion of motivation get-er-done of almost pharmacuetically
induced levels? Hes beeing ready for anything. If we hold it together and
show him, I get the impression he would be happy enough to see the garden
all ours, he is just taking the money heat off of us by creating other
possabilties.
dirtluv!
-D
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:49 PM, stephen hargrove <stephenhargrove@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> 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<http://www.nataliedee.com/071907/cron-is-serious-business.jpg>
>
> --andrea
>
>
>
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