HI Nathan !
  Thanks for the info.  and 2 things:

1) I didn't get attached plant list.

2) Just a suggestion- I would LOVE to buy plants from Troy and had gone to East
side  Farmer's Market a few weeks ago hoping to find you there (didn't, so I
bought from other folks with less selection ;() . Unfortunately, this is kind of
late for buying tomatoes/peppers, as I've planted all I can. Is there any way
you could consider selling earlier next year and/or sending a notice further in
advance so I can plan on it?

Thanks again and good luck!

>>> "Nathan Larson" <education@...> 5/22/2009 11:26 AM >>>
Hello fellow gardeners wherever you are!



Troy Community Gardens is having our third annual Plant Sale this Sunday,
8am-noon, in front of Pierce's Northside Market in the NorthTowne Center,
2817 N. Sherman Ave.



We're selling hundreds of heirloom and well-loved varieties of tomatoes and
peppers for $2 per plant (mostly in individual 3" pots). This is a great way
to try several different varieties in your garden all at once--pick and
choose which ones sound good to you. Please see the attached list of tomato
& pepper varieties we'll have at the sale.



We're also selling herbs, flowers, prairie plants, and even some house
plants. All plants have been started or donated by volunteers from Troy
Gardens. The plants have been treated with great TLC and are hardened to the
outside weather. All proceeds from this sale directly benefit Troy Community
Gardens.



New this year: we're selling a limited number of refurbished mowers and
weed-whackers, as well as a selection of books on gardening and sustainable
living. We also have 25-lb bags of Chickity Doo Doo fertilizer for $10
<http://www.chickitydoodoo.com> www.chickitydoodoo.com) and Purple Cow
Organic Compost for $12 ( <http://www.purplecoworganics.com>
www.purplecoworganics.com).



We thank Happy Grass Landscaping (www.happygrasswi.com) for providing the
bagged soil amendments for our sale.



We'll be selling some of everything for Timedollars--1/4 Timedollar per
tomato/pepper plant, on up for larger flower & landscape plants, etc.



If you can forward this message to others, we would surely appreciate it.
Come see us on Sunday!!

Here's a great new project I've been working with: Fitchburg Fields -
www.fitchburgfields.org

The plan is to purchase 250 acres of conventional farm land just south
of Madison and convert it to organic CSA and incubator training farms;
have community gardens and SPIN plots; build a Learning Center to
provide training in organic growing, creating business plans, niche
products and marketing; build a carbon neutral eco-village that runs
on alternative energy sources and uses community cars; build a Bike &
Breakfast Inn for eco-tourism; do wetland and prairie restorations and
lots more!

Volunteers and donations are needed to keep it going.  Check out the
website and pass it on!

<http://archive.wort-fm.org/xml/buzzwed.xml>
http://archive.wort-fm.org/xml/buzzwed.xml

above link is one of the interviews in local media - this one with Jan
Miasaki ...

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Apologies for cross and duplicate postings
REMINDER and new details below including growing list of sponsors and
supporters...

We hope to see you tonight, tomorrow and/or Saturday - you'll get to learn
from one another and folks from other communities about innovative
strategies that are working to build stronger community, safer neighborhoods
and more engaged citizenry.  With economic times getting harder, working
together as a community has never been more important.

Tonight we'll have air conditioning in the library, bring cookies to share
if you'd like.  Tomorrow we'll be outdoors all day - Corry and St. Paul
intersection (tent with walls set up already!) so dress comfortably, bring
chairs if you'd like (we rented 30), arrive early to register (8:30 am),
plan for lunch at a local restaurant or bring a lunch, and overall prepare
for a fun and active day!  We still have volunteer opportunities to do the
following: help with set up, take photographs during the event and
registration table.

Tomorrow evening we'll be at Absolutely Art (back yard) for potluck and
talent show!  All events are kid and family friendly.  Welcome!
to volunteer 438-7264 (Pam) to register 206-6219 (Mariah).



   <http://www.ariesrisingproductions.com/images/PosterMandalaweb.jpg>

   <http://www.ariesrisingproductions.com/images/mark.jpg> MARK LAKEMAN

founder, Portland, OR

City Repair  <http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php> Project

in Madison July 17-19, 2008!

Mark Lakeman is a visionary architect, founder of Portland's City Repair
Project and its 10-Day Village Building Convergence, and director of the
ecological design firm Communitecture. Now a national movement, City Repair
combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development,
public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform
public space. Mark is also founder of Portland's paradigm shifting model
homeless village/cooperative Dignity Village.

City Repair Resources:

  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbG5bY2QdQ> YouTube Video interview with
Lakeman - click here

  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVq0exoGySc&feature=related> YouTube Video
on history & purpose of City Repair - click here

  <http://www.inthefield.info/city_repair.pdf> PDF Booklet about City Repair
- click here

and we are delighted to welcome back to Madison -

  Manish Jain
<http://www.ariesrisingproductions.com/images/headshot_MJ_75x90.jpg> MANISH
JAIN

founder, Shikshantar
<http://berkana.org/berkana/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&secti
onid=11&id=98&Itemid=124>

Udaipur, India

Manish Jain is founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking
Education and Development and as Chief Editor of the journal, "Vimukt
Shiksha"  (Liberating Learning). He also helped start the Swapathgami
(Walkouts-Walkon) movement in India which works actively with local children
and families on community video, healthy cooking, zero waste living and
rooftop organic farming.  He also serves on the advisory board of several
organizations committed to nurturing innovative forms of learning,
leadership and convivial communities. He has spent several years trying to
unlearn his Master's degree in Education from Harvard University, and a B.A.
in Economics, International Relations and Political Philosophy from Brown
University. (2004)

  <http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2101> Being the Change - and
article by Jain in 1/08 Yes! Magazine

Cycle Yatra You Tube - (see  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YQsaFLOvM>
Sat. 9am schedule)



SCHEDULE:

Thursday, July 17, 5:30-7:30pm

Madison Public Library - Central - 201 W. Mifflin St. Directions
<http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/about/central.html>

City Repair & Dignity Village: Models of Placemaking & Neighborhood Building


Free presentation for elected officials, city planners, community &
neighborhood leaders and all others interested in learning about City Repair
and the topics of placemaking & homelessness. ALL are welcome.

History and progression of City Repair in Portland, as well as on Dignity
Village, which Lakeman founded. Dignity Village is a formerly mobile tent
city in Portland, Oregon, well on its way to becoming a green, sustainable,
urban village. It is home for people who might otherwise inhabit doorways
and sidewalks. Dignity provides a peaceful community, a clean environment, a
center, and safety. It is governed by the residents.
www.dignityvillage.org/index-2.html

http://cityrepair.org/wiki.php/about

Friday July 18, 9am-4pm at the intersection of Corry St. & St. Paul Ave.
near the new Goodman Atwood Community Center, 149 Waubesa St.

Revitalizing our Neighborhoods through Community, Creativity and
Communication

with Mark Lakeman & Manish Jain

$35 (scholarships available).

Pre-registration requested. Call (608) 206-6219.

Or make checks payable to EINPC and
mail to EINPC, 1321 E. Mifflin St., Suite 201, Madison, WI 53703

This interactive event is designed for ANYONE (all ages, all backgrounds!)
interested in building stronger, safer, more connected neighborhoods. Engage
in the process of visioning your ideal community with people from all over
the city of Madison & beyond. Facilitated day-long event with Manish Jain
and Mark Lakeman exploring placemaking. We will be learning about both City
Repair & Swaraj, as well as sharing in community about what is already
happening in Madison along these lines. Join us for this exciting day of
deep community building, co-creation, and exploration.
It is outdoors - please dress comfortably for the weather, bring a
comfortable chair (we'll have folding chairs!),
water and lunch if you'd like. (Many restaurants close by also - Bunky's,
Africana, Cafe Zoma, Sala Thai, Glass Nickel...)

   <http://www.ariesrisingproductions.com/images/Sunnysideweb.jpg> Friday
July 18, 6-8pm
FREE COMMUNITY Potluck, Talent Show/Open Mic & Social

Hosted by Absolutely Art <http://www.absolutelyartllc.com/>  & Cafe Zoma,
2322 Atwood Ave.

in the back yard - along the bike path - near the intersection of Ohio St. &
Atwood Avenue.

All are invited! Join neighbors far and wide for an evening of conversation,
performance & fun for all. Permaculture & kids activities, info on Dane
County community gardens, neighborhood associations, sustainability
organizations & more.

ALL ARE INVITED TO SHARE TALENTS at the
Open Mic/Talent Show.

Friday, July 18, 8-11pm

Madtown  <http://www.madtownboogie.org/> Barefoot Boogie

Tai Chi Center, 301 S. Bedford St.

Madison's volunteer-run, community-building, substance-free, open-floor
dance for people who love to dance and express themselves through movement.
All are welcome! $5-10 donation to Boogie group requested.

Saturday July 19, 9am
Join us for Madison's first ever CYCLE YATRA
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YQsaFLOvM>  experience
with Manish Jain!

Hosted by  <http://revolutioncycles.net/contact.html> Revolution Cycles - at
2330 Atwood Ave.

& East Isthmus  <http://eastisthmus.org/> Neighborhoods Planning Council

FREE Community Bagel Breakfast &
bike ride/walk/ride-share caravan to the west side event

Need a ride to the afternoon West Side event? Come to the community
breakfast and hook up with others to carpool. Or bike...if you're an
ambitious biker! Look for us in the back parking lot next to the bike path
(corner of Ohio & Atwood.)

What's a Cycle Yatra? Join Manish Jain (see above)and explore the concept
during a 2.5 hour mini-experience. Manish explains the concept as a "moving,
organic conversation" - exploring together, interacting with people and
places along the way, with no pre-conceived plan. Yes, quite a concept for
us westerners! Manish will facilitate an experience of deinstitutionalizing
ourselves and consciously supporting what we what to bring to the world, in
the moment.





12-3pm
Cultivating Community from the Grassroots Up -
with Mark Lakeman

At the Wisconsin Youth & Family Center, 1201 McKenna Blvd. (across from
Elver Park.)

Free. Open to the public - all are welcome. No pre-registration required.

What are the first steps in creating community and place in a diverse
neighborhood without a central gathering place? How do we invite all people
to the table, engage and motivate active participation, assess the needs and
assets of a neighborhood in transition - and have fun in the process? All
are invited to join in! Let's spark some creative projects on the Southwest
Side! Performance by youth, refreshments, exhibits by grassroots
organizations, activities and more.

   <http://www.ariesrisingproductions.com/images/BookKioskweb.jpg> Made
possible in part by a grant from the
City of Madison Dept. of Planning & Development Neighborhood Grant to East
Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council, individual donors, non-profit
sponsors and local businesses.

Partners include:

Goodman Atwood Community Center, Wisconsin Youth & Family Center,
Worthington Park Neighborhood, Aries Rising Productions, and MGE.

With support from: Absolutely Art, Community Action Coalition Community
Gardens, Dane Buy Local, Dane County Timebank Eastside Kitchen Cabinet,
Neighborhood Design Center, Revolution Cycles, Spiritual Vibe, Cafe Zoma &
others



  <http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php/> The City Repair Project
www.cityrepair.org
...an all-volunteer grassroots organization helping people reclaim their
urban spaces to create community-oriented places.



RELATED RESOURCES:

  <http://www.pps.org/info/bulletin/what_is_placemaking> What is Placemaking?


  <http://onestraw.wordpress.com/sub-acre-ag/permaculture-guilds-a-primer/>
What is Permaculture?

Urban
<http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/gardening/permaculture.shtml>
Permaculture

(note there is a new Madison Area Permaculture Guild!)

PDF Permaculture  <http://www.gburnett.unisonplus.net/Perma/> Book

Guerilla Gardening <http://www.guerrillagardening.org/>

Seed  <http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/gardening/seedballs.shtml>
Balls

  <http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=2172> Liberate Your Space - Jan.
08 Yes! magazine

REGISTRATION Info - call 608-206-6219 to register for Friday's workshops.

Other events do not require registrations and are free.

Make checks payable to EINPC (East Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council)
http://eastisthmus.org <http://eastisthmus.org/>  1321 E. Mifflin St. Ste
201 Madison WI 53703 USA



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From: Pamela Hathaway [mailto:hathaway@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:00 AM
Subject: SAVE THE DATES! Incredible learning, engaging, motivating
opportunities


Neighborhoods. Intersection Repair. Proactive Safety Strategies.  Art.
Neighborhoods.  Community.  Traffic.

Engaging through Intersections: Building Safe Strong Neighborhoods

through the Arts & Community Thursday, July 15-19, 2008

Join us as we welcome one another as neighbors and guests

All events open to public and scheduled to be outdoors.  Additional
sponsors, volunteers, donors and artists are welcome.  Portland, Oregon, is
home of Intersection Repair - painting murals on streets!  Many eastsiders
have been trying and wanting to bring this proactive community builder to
Madison.  This year we're hoping to get the ball rolling so that next year
it can happen.  Be a part of this exciting week.   Your ideas, talents,
energy, time and creativity are welcome.

Help organize * show up * create * build *  connect *   eat great food *
perform * learn * teach *  bring friends & family... everyone welcome!

Some events free, all day workshop Friday, July 18th, with Mark Lakeman &
local leadership $35.  Scholarships available.  Time dollars welcome in
addition.

Partnering Sponsors: East Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council, Goodman
Community Center, Mariah Miller of Aries Rising Productions, Wisconsin Youth
Company, Worthington Park Neighborhood Association, Dane County Time Bank,
Eastside Farmers Market and City of Madison Planning and Development.









Schedule of Events

Tuesday, July 15 4-7 pm

Eastside Farmers Market
Hands-on-Activity: Making Seed Balls (what? come and find out!)



Thursday, July 17 - 7-9pm

Intro to City Repair - presentation by Mark Lakeman, founder of Portland's
City Repair Project, home of Intersection Repair



Friday July 18, 9am-4pm

outside the new Goodman Atwood Community Center

Cultivating Community & Building Neighborhoods through Art, Communication &
Permaculture

Mark Lakeman, Joel Pfeiffer & others

$35 by July 15. $40 at door. (scholarships available).

Pre-registration requested. (608) 206-6219 and roots@...

Engage in the process of visioning your ideal community with people from all
over the city of Madison & beyond. Afternoon workshops on permaculture,
communication, neighborhood organizing, hands-on building projects, and City
Repair as a model for creating community.

Friday July 18, 5-9pm

FREE COMMUNITY Potluck, Open Mic & Talent Show!

At the convergence of the bike path, Waubesa St. and new community center

All are invited! Join neighbors far and wide for an evening of conversation,
entertainment & fun for all.

Kids activities, info on Dane County community gardens, neighborhood
associations, sustainability organizations, permaculture activities & more.

Saturday July 19, 12-3pm

Cultivating Community from the Ground Up -
with Mark Lakeman

Wisconsin Youth & Family Center, 1201 McKenna Blvd.

Free.

Pre-registration requested, but not required.

(608) 276-9782, ext. 59
What are the first steps in creating community in a diverse neighborhood
without a central meeting place? How do we invite all people to the table,
engage and motivate active participation, assess the needs and assets of a
neighborhood in transition - and have fun in the process? All are invited to
join in!

Resources
More info about City Repair in Portland, OR
http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php/about
  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbG5bY2QdQ> YouTube Video interview with
Lakeman - click here  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbG5bY2QdQ>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbG5bY2QdQ
  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVq0exoGySc&feature=related> YouTube Video
on history & purpose of City Repair - click here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVq0exoGySc&feature=related>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVq0exoGySc&feature=related
  <http://www.inthefield.info/city_repair.pdf> PDF Booklet about City Repair
- click here http://www.inthefield.info/city_repair.pdf



............................................................................
...............
organized by East Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council, Goodman Community
Center, Aries Rising Productions and Worthington Park neighborhood.  And you
are welcome to join!

To obtain details as organized:  (Mariah) 206-6219  (Pam)
roots@... and 204-0834 to get pointed in the right direction.
http://eastisthmus.org

Mark Voss has sent this article describing innovative programs in San
Francisco and Portland which provide veggies, gardens, land and other
benefits. Seems like this could be our next step here in M
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Monday, June 23, 2008 (SF Chronicle)
S.F. firm harvests potential of unused land
Tara Duggan, Chronicle Staff Writer


    (06-22) 17:20 PDT -- Anne Fisher Vollen used to have a box of organic
vegetables delivered to her home every week, and religiously separated her
family's food scraps from the trash. Yet the mother of two children and
the co-founder of a startup company didn't have the energy to cultivate
her own plot of land.
    Last month, Vollen, 44, and her husband, Gary Vollen, 45, turned to
MyFarm, a new San Francisco business that took the family's local and
organic diet to a new level: by designing and planting an organic
vegetable garden in their Marina district backyard. The Vollens pay MyFarm
a weekly fee to maintain and harvest the vegetables that have just started
to mature. They can gaze at their garden and dig into just-picked lettuce
without so much as touching dirt.
    "I joke that my backyard was the only thing more neglected than my
children since I started the business out of my home," said Vollen,
co-founder of Green Zebra, a coupon book, guide and Web site focusing on
local green businesses.
    Plenty of city dwellers already raise vegetables, and even chickens, in
tiny outdoor spaces, but MyFarm fits into the larger nationwide urban
agriculture movement, in which cities, residents, nonprofit organizations
and activists are reclaiming urban spaces for food production. In the past
few years, San Francisco has seen several instances of so-called guerrilla
gardening, when community organizers transformed abandoned private and
public lots into minifarms in the Richmond District and Bernal Heights.
    In some ways it's a throwback to the Victory Gardens, a World War II
government-sponsored program in which as much as 40 percent of the
country's nonmilitary produce was grown in urban and suburban backyards.
San Francisco recently resurrected the idea with Victory Gardens 2008+, a
project that will involve planting vegetables in backyards and in Civic
Center Plaza as part of the Slow Food Nation event taking place over Labor
Day weekend.
    MyFarm is a for-profit variation that aims to serve many similar goals: to
conserve energy by growing produce where people eat it, and to beautify
and make use of underutilized land. Decentralized urban farm
    Founder Trevor Paque, 29, envisions what he calls a decentralized urban
farm - a network of backyard organic vegetable gardens that will free
urbanites from their reliance on food trucked in from the country. Clients
who live in the sunny Mission District will grow tomatoes for denizens of
the foggy Richmond, where broccoli and other cool-weather vegetables will
thrive in customers' backyards. And bicycles, rather than gas-guzzling
trucks, will be the main method of transport.
    It may sound pie-in-sky, but two months after putting up flyers, Paque
already has installed 10 gardens and signed up an additional five clients.
Having a farm in your backyard tends to soothe fears about
salmonella-tainted tomatoes, rising food costs and the melting polar ice
caps. Plus, it's an affordable way to get some landscaping done.
    Businesses like MyFarm are thriving in other parts of the country.
Established in 2006, Your Backyard Farmer is a similar model in the
Portland, Ore., area, and co-founder Donna Smith said she has consulted
with offshoots in Santa Cruz, Boston and Washington, D.C. The Portland
company also offers a program to help customers start and maintain their
own gardens, with 57 "farms" total. It is booked through 2008.
Installation, maintenance
    MyFarm installation costs $600 to $1,000, and maintenance costs $20 to $35
per week, depending on the garden's size, and includes weeding, harvesting
and composting. Those who opt to have larger gardens installed pay a
smaller weekly fee and provide food to customers who, eventually, will be
able to order a weekly vegetable delivery collected from MyFarm backyards.
    The vegetable-box concept is modeled on the Community Supported
Agriculture programs offered by dozens of Northern California farms, in
which members receive weekly deliveries of seasonal produce direct from
the farm.
    Paque previously owned and ran a mortgage brokerage. A year ago, he left
the business, deciding he didn't want an office job anymore. He
apprenticed at Three Stone Hearth, a Berkeley cooperative that prepares
and sells nutrient-rich meals for delivery or pickup. He also volunteered
with Christopher Shein, an instructor of permaculture at Merritt College.
    Paque helped Shein install permaculture gardens, and he noticed that when
they returned months later, the garden floor was often strewn with rotten
fruit and many of the plants were going to seed. It was obvious the food
wasn't being harvested.
    "Most people are too busy to go back in their backyard and water and
harvest. So we do that for them," Paque said of his new company, which is
available only to San Francisco residents.
    MyFarm also helps customers compost their food scraps in their backyard to
enrich their own gardens, rather than adding the waste to their green
curbside compost bins. Paque points out that normally the food waste - 350
tons a day, according to Mark Westlund of the city's Department of the
Environment - has to be trucked to Vacaville to break down into compost.
The compost is then hauled to Northern California organic farms, where
diesel-burning tractors work it into the soil. The resulting vegetables
then have to be driven back to the city.
    Paque cites additional benefits of his model compared with large-scale
farms, even organic ones. Instead of using tractors, Paque and his farmers
do their work by hand and travel by bicycle as much as possible. In
addition to organic methods, Paque follows permaculture farming
principles, which emphasize reducing stress on the soil.
    The gardens end up taking various shapes, but the standard design is for
4-by-4-foot raised beds. Each bed is large enough to produce enough small
vegetables for one person; two adults might want to order three to four
beds.
    With a new client, Paque first does a site analysis, checking for adequate
sunlight and taking soil samples to check for contaminants and nutrient
levels. If a customer signs up, Paque and employees spend a day or two
installing the garden.
    They pull out invasive weeds, then put down a layer of recycled cardboard
that will act as a weed barrier and eventually turn to compost. They top
it with finished compost and organic soil, and install drip irrigation.
Later, they plant the soil with young starts and seeds, using straw as
mulch.
    The vegetables can include carrots, onions, garlic, bush beans, spinach,
beets, peas, herbs and native flowers. In the Mission, they add sun-loving
peppers, tomatoes and eggplant. Diets rich in nutrients
    A few of Paque's customers found out about MyFarm through the local
chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a group dedicated to restoring
nutrient-dense foods to people's diets. Judy Bonhiver, 57, recently had
MyFarm install a garden in her Noe Valley front yard.
    "The price of food is going up, yet I still want to buy local and seasonal
produce," Bonhiver said.
    Jack and Gay Reineck, 64 and 65, also just had a garden installed behind
their Cole Valley home. Although they grow vegetables and blueberries at
their weekend house in Sebastopol, the busy graphic designers don't have
time to do it in San Francisco, where they have lived for 30 years and
normally shop at organic produce stores.
    "The broccoli is only half the size of big heads of broccoli in the store.
It's way more tender and concentrated even than the vegetables you buy at
the natural-food store," Jack Reineck said.
    But what people sometimes don't realize is that homegrown food can still
be potentially hazardous, said Christine Bruhn, director of the Center for
Consumer Research at UC Davis.
    "They think if it's from my backyard and it's organic, it can't be a
source of harmful bacteria," she said. "Birds fly, bunnies hop, rats and
other wild animals can visit the location and leave no sign, yet their
droppings can be there in the soil."
    Bruhn recommends that all produce get a thorough washing, regardless of
its origins.

Urban agriculture resources
    Guerrilla gardening. Visit guerrillagardening.org. Click on Community and
navigate to San Francisco.
    Free Farm Stand. This volunteer-run organization offers produce grown in
local backyards free to the public, especially to low-income people.
Sundays 1-3 p.m., Parque Nińos Unidos at the corner of 23rd Street and
Treat Avenue. freefarmstand.org.

    MyFarm. For more information, visit www.myfarmsf.com.

    People's Grocery. Nonprofit with programs to increase access to healthy
food in West Oakland, including urban agriculture. peoplesgrocery.org.
    Quesada Gardens Initiative. Community of Bayview residents who tend a
vegetable garden on a city median. quesadagardensblog.blogspot.com.

    Three Stone Hearth. A Berkeley cooperative that sells nutrient-rich
prepared meals for pickup or delivery, following the principles of Weston
A. Price. threestonehearth.com or e-mail info@....
    Victory Gardens 2008+. A San Francisco pilot project to create more
vegetable gardens in backyards, parks and rooftops: sfvictorygardens.org.

    E-mail Tara Duggan at tduggan@....
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Great work, Ashley! I'll try to catch it.

>>> Ashleigh Ross <growedibleflowers@...> 10/08/07 11:26 AM >>>
Hello CFGN-  It has been awhile and I have stepped almost completely away from
gardens because I've been involved in the rebuilding of New Orleans.  Tonight
from 7-8 on the access hour for WORT 89.9, I've put together a radio program
about the rebuilding.  It highlights the role of volunteers, the potential for
sustainable communities, and a Water Resource Management project I have been
involved with.  If you have a chance to listen in please do.  I've tried to make
the show as positive as possible because a lot of really wonderful things are
happening during the rebuilding that don't get to much attention.  I hope no one
minds me using the listserve but I wanted to let you all know. Have a wonderful
day ~Ashleigh

Clare Seguin <cseguin@...> wrote:                              
l;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Hello Friends,

  We are looking for volunteers to help plant fruit trees at Midvale Gardens. The
details are below. You can help us by volunteering, or by sending this email to
people who might be interested. The more volunteers we have the sooner we will
finish!

  Thanks so much,

  Nancy Gutknecht
  Co-coordinator, Midvale Gardens













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We are looking for volunteers to help plant fruit trees at Midvale Gardens. The details are below. You can help us by volunteering, or by sending this email to people who might be interested. The more volunteers we have the sooner we will finish!

Thanks so much,

Nancy Gutknecht
Co-coordinator, Midvale Gardens

l;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Hello Friends,

We are looking for volunteers to help plant fruit trees at Midvale Gardens. The
details are below. You can help us by volunteering, or by sending this email to
people who might be interested. The more volunteers we have the sooner we will
finish!

Thanks so much,

Nancy Gutknecht
Co-coordinator, Midvale Gardens

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>>> "Nathan Larson" <education@...> 08/29/07 10:26 AM >>>
Hi everyone,

Our FTG Kids' Gardening Program was featured this month in the National
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Check it out at
http://www.kidsgardening.com/Dig/digdetail.taf?Type=Art&id=2164

Warm regards,

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Nathan Larson
Education Program Director
Friends of Troy Gardens
608-240-0409
education@...
www.troygardens.org

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Friends of Troy Gardens
608-240-0409
education@...
www.troygardens.org

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THIS SATURDAY...
ROCK THE GARDENS AT MADISON'S ONLY URBAN FARM!

MUSIC, GAMES AND RATATOUILLE HIGHLIGHT AN AFTERNOON AT TROY GARDENS.

Event: Northside Savor the Summer Festival
Date: 08/11/2007
Time: Noon to 6:30 p.m.
Place: Troy Gardens, 500 block of Troy Drive, Madison
Organizers: Friends of Troy Gardens and the Vera Court Neighborhood
Center
Cost: Free

Savor the summer with music, crafts, ethnic cooking demonstrations,
kid's activities, food, prairie hikes and hay rides at Troy Gardens --
Madison's only urban farm and the gem of the Northside.

MUSIC AND DANCE
Noon Acoustic Woody's (old time folk/blues duo)
1:00 Momus Boda (motown-tinged blues)
2::00 WADOMA (African dance and drum)
3:30 Kissers (Irish root rock)
4:45 Vera Court Girl Power drill team
5:00 Hmong Dancers
5:30 The Betrayed (high octane rock & roll)

KID FUN: Hands-on crafts, outdoor games and races, plus bubbles, slip
& slide, discovery in the Kids' Garden.

WORKSHOPS: Medicinal Herb Lesson and Tour, Tour of co-housing and
discussion of green living, green landscaping, chili roasting, bird
walk.

COOKING DEMOS: Huitlacoche, Hmong and soul food demonstrations, along
with oil infusion techniques with herbs.

FOOD: Ratatouille made from vegetables grown at Troy Community Farm,
the three B's of summer (beer, brats, burgers, also veggie varieties),
Hmong snacks, ice cream.

DIRECTIONS TO TROY GARDENS .... 500 BLOCK OF TROY DRIVE:

By bus: take bus No. 22 from the North Transfer point. There's a stop
right by the gardens on Troy Drive.

By car: If you are coming from the East, take Sherman Drive to
Northport Drive (or come in from Packers). Follow Northport Dr. past
Warner Park. Turn left onto Troy Drive. Go several blocks until you
pass under the railroad passing. Pass both E. and W. Karstens Dr. on
your right. Troy Gardens is beyond this. You can park on the street.

By bicycle: If you are coming from points east, the best way to get to
the gardens is through Maple Bluff. Wind around Maple Bluff (take
Lakewood Blvd. to Farwell Dr.; avoid the bluff by cutting through
Butternut and then back on to Farwell). Farwell turns into Woodward
Dr. Go past Warner Beach on your right. Turn right onto Marcy Rd.,
which ends at Troy Drive. Turn left onto Troy Drive. The gardens are
on your left.

For more information contact Friends of Troy Gardens, 608- 240-0409
info@..., www.troygardens.org.