RE: seedy acres community garden purchase

H* A*

Friends,

How can anyone say no to Sally McCabe or Seedy Acres? Event though April
15th, two college tuitions and  and a teenager growing into NBA size have
horribly tapped me out, Sally has managed to get my lunch money for a good
long stretch. 

Fair is fair: The Clinton Community Garden sold square inches of the garden
for $5.00 a square inch back in the 1980's through a newspaper ad the Trust
for Public Land put into the NY Times for us.  With these funds, help from
the Clinton fund and shameless fundraising, block parties, we managed to
raise funds to help buy the our garden from the city and get it transferred
to Parks.   Sally McCabe still owns the certificate for the square inch she
"bought" then.

I have "bought", as a first installment, 12.5 feet of Shady Acres and am
looking to buy more to help save this wonderful 25 year old community
garden.

Please join Judy Tiber and me in thanking Sally for her years of service by
contributing 
generously.  Judy's right. A she says, "I've always wanted to own land in
Philadelphia - haven't you?  
How many visitors to Philadelphia have their own tomato patch?

Checks can be made out to Neighborhood Gardens Association--Seedy Acres Fund

and can be mailed to: Sally McCabe, 437 Poplar Street, Philadelphia, PA
19123.
NGA is helping the gardeners with the purchase.  NGA is a 501(c)(3) and all 
contributions are tax-deductible."

If there ever was a way to buy your way up the Karmic chain and avoid being
reborn as a shrimp fit for an all you can eat buffet in a family restaurant,
this is it. 

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

-----Original Message-----
From: Grow19@aol.com [G*@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 7:17 PM
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Subject: [cg] seedy acres community garden purchase

Dear Friends,

Hope this 'fundraising' email is allowed.  Our friend and long, long-term 
worker for  community gardens nationally, Sally McCabe, is now faced with
the 
possible loss of her neighborhood community garden -- Seedy Acres -- which 
she and her neighbors have been gardening for over 20 years.  They have
saved 
about 1/3 of the garden and 1/3 has already been sold, but now they working 
to need to raise $40,000 to purchase the remaining 1/3 -- six plots
totalling 
about 5,000 square feet.  

We who have benefitted from Sally's tireless work at the ACGA/Philly Green 
office and at ACGA conferences (not to mention her great red hair and great 
earrings and great laughter) could easily help her.  Only $8.00 per square 
feet!   

Please join me in thanking Sally for her years of service by contributing 
generously.  I've always wanted to own land in Philadelphia - haven't you?  
How many visitors to Philadelphia have their own tomato patch?

Checks can be made out to Neighborhood Gardens Association--Seedy Acres Fund

and can be mailed to: Sally McCabe, 437 Poplar Street, Philadelphia, PA
19123.
NGA is helping the gardeners with the purchase.  NGA is a 501(c)(3) and all 
contributions are tax-deductible.

Thanks for joining me in this.  I'm getting 10 square feet.  How bout you?
Judy Tiger
Washington DC

ps -- hope i haven't abused the purpose of this list.  this email was all my

idea.  sally had no idea i was going to send it.

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