Re: Plot Applications

**a*@aol.com**

Re plot applications: Here is a link to the Clinton Community Garden's website -  http://clintoncommunitygarden.org. Please click the  http://clintoncommunitygarden.org/rules_&_regulations.htm button and read.

We have applications for both our front and back gardens and require applicants to read it there in front of the person handing out keys and plots - we joke that , "there's going to be a test," but we need to know that our rules have actually passed the eyes of the person requesting the key, or who has gotten to the place on the wait-list for a garden plot sublet or assignment has read our rules. 

For some, it may seem like alot of rules, but like the Ten Commandments, someone had to transgress them for the rule to be written down - nothing capricious here.  We require that front key holders live or work in our catchment area and insist that folks who have garden plots live in our garden area ( about 100,000 people live in our garden area) so they can be actively gardening on a daily basis during the season. 

Our garden rules are printed in the major languages of our neighborhood - English, Spanish and Arabic and have set times and places for key assignments, with committee members dedicated to this detail. 

More than anything else, the process and governance of the garden has to be fair and transparent - no sense that anyone is getting preference and secret deals. Everyone is loved, everyone gets their chops busted if they screw up - equally. Cliques, and unfair governance is a community garden killer. 

Keep your rules and paperwork simple, to the point and fair.  And follow up. 

Best wishes, 
Adam Honigman
Volunteer, 
Clinton Community Garden, 
NYC

-----Original Message-----
From: SoleilPaz@aol.com
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Sent: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:17:11 EDT
Subject: [cg] Plot Applications

Hello!

Anyone have a good plot application I can sample? Please either point me to
your Garden's site or you can respond privately with an attachment, whatever
works.

Or, list me your most important items to include.... We already have garden
rules which gardeners will sign in agreement to taking a plot.  But, for  the
purpose of keeping track of our gardeners, contact info, grant stats etc,
what else must we know about them, without being too nosey??

Also, looking to find out an average plot size and fees, deposits, etc.

What kinds of ways do you invite those who want to garden but can't afford
the fees to participate? Seniors, disabled, anyone who really needs and wants
to  be there without the financial resources to pay for membership?... How do
you  cover these costs?

We are, so far as we know, the first food bank/ community garden combined
project on the west coast, though the liason seems so natural I can't
understand
 why it's not more common. But then, CGs are not really understood out here
either! Plots will be 4x16, 66 or so, with room for more.

Thanks!!

Coordinator
Soleil Tranquilli
Elk Grove, CA
_SoleilPaz@aol.com_ (S*@aol.com)

Elk Grove Community Garden

Nurturing community ~ Empowering people ~ Growing  good food

bIn our every deliberation, we must  consider the impact of our decisions
on the next seven generations.b --Great  Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

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