RE: Re: HFH and community gardens

H* A*

Jennifer et al,

I'm just waiting to hear what and it is alleged that HFH may or may not have
done in the Bronx. It's easy when you're on a mission to build housing for
poor folks to see any "empty" space as a "bird-in-hand." I , like you and
most of us,  want both houses & gardens ( sounds like a good name for a
magazine.) I need to see some proof here in NYC before I act either way. If
there is a genuine conflict between HFH and commuity gardeners here,
mediation is the way to go. We want both affordable housing and gardens.
This was the first negative report that I had ever heard about HFH. I am
waiting to hear more. I am not "dissing" HFH". I want to hear more.

Happy gardening,
Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jennifer L Barricklow [SMTP:barricklow@juno.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 09, 2000 7:08 PM
> To:	community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject:	[cg] Re: HFH and community gardens
> 
> I am becoming alarmed at the tenor of this thread regarding Habitat for
> Humanity. I have been involved with both HFH *and* community gardens here
> in New Haven, CT, for almost 10 years now. My experience has been that
> the two serve in tandem as tools for residents seeking to reclaim their
> neighborhoods from drugs and gangs. 
> 
> It saddens me terribly to think that a chapter of HFH has behaved in the
> manner described, but I admonish the readers of this list not to paint
> all HFH affiliates with the same brush. Each HFH chapter operates
> independently; HFH International provides opportunities for training and
> assistance with organization and development for those affiliates who
> wish to make use of them, but it has no direct control over the specific
> actions of any chapter. 
> 
> This is the first I've heard of conflicts between HFH and community
> gardeners, but I intend to ask around both the community gardening and
> HFH communities in this area to see if it has occurred and just hasn't
> "made the headlines". In the meantime, I urge everyone not to condemn HFH
> en masse because of inappropriate actions on the part of a single
> chapter.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jennifer Barricklow
> North Haven CT
> 
> > From: "Honigman, Adam" <Adam.Honigman@Bowne.com>
> > To: "'Robert Drach'" <tgumula@earthlink.net>,
> > Sharon Gordon
> > <gordonse@one.net>
> > Cc: drshiffe@students.wisc.edu, community_garden@mallorn.com
> > Subject: RE: [cg] To Dave and interested others re  
> > Jeavons/Habitat/Commun
> > ityGardens
> > Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:12:02 -0400
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > 
> > Bob,
> > 
> > Thanks for the update re Habitat in NYC!  My synagogue has asked me 
> > to join
> > in a Habitat construction job in East Harlem. I was looking to clear 
> > my
> > schedule to join in before I read your memo. As both a community 
> > garden and
> > housing advocate, I work to find compromise solutions as a member of
> > Manhattan Community Board 4's  land use subcommittee. So far, we've 
> > had
> > sucess with one not-for-profit developer who is preserving and 
> > enhancing  a
> > CG ( the "Juan Alonzo Garden" on 51st and 11th ave in NYC) as part 
> > of his
> > adjacent low-income development project. We are negotiating with him 
> > on
> > another near by project. This is hard work which has required 
> > concessions on
> > all sides. It is proving to be win-win. In areas with competing land 
> > use
> > advocates, it is the only way to go.  
> > 
> > Community gardening is 50% gardening and 100% political. The 
> > neighborhood
> > has to really want the garden in the first place and has to work 
> > hard to get
> > housing advocates to use non-garden sites for building. This kind of
> > politcal work and deal-making is extremely time-consuming and hard 
> > to do.
> > The Clinton Community Garden has two individuals who have made the 
> > sacrifice
> > of time and effort to become Community Board Members. 
> > 
> > Bob, please give me chapter and verse about what Habitat has done in 
> > the
> > Bronx so I can share it with others who, like myself, have 
> > contributed to
> > Habitat in the past.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Adam
> > 
> 
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