Re: Garden Insurance in California

Y* S*

Thanks to Adam for list.

Two changes re Los Angeles/Southern California listings:

1.      Chris Braswell is no longer at LA Grows, LA Grows no longer exists, 
and no one has been hired to take his place at Los Angeles Conservation 
Corps at the Hammel Street address.  Phone number area code has been 
changed to (323).

2.      Yvonne Savio's phone number area code has changed to (323).

Thanks!

At 06:26 PM 12/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>Bill,
>
>
>The first thing you should do is to go the American Community Gardening
>Website links section and check out the California Community Gardening links.
>  <A HREF="http://www.communitygarden.org">American Community Gardening
>Association</A>
>
>2) Here's a list of California Contacts. Most of these folks should be able
>to give you some California based solutions to your insurance quandary:
>
>Community Gardening around California
>
>
>The following individuals and organizations are useful contacts for
>information about gardening, community gardening, school gardening and
>horticultural therapy projects in their respective regions.
>
>Central California
>Donna Zick
>Community Environmental Council
>909 12th Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95814
>Phone: 916-447-7063
>E-mail: dzick@aol.com
>
>Listings for the SF Bay Area
>
>Southern Coast
>Oscar Carmona
>Community Environmental Council
>930 Miramonte Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93109
>Phone: 805-963-0583, ext. 114
>E-mail: garden@rain.org
>
>Northern California
>John Jeavons
>Ecology Action
>5798 Ridgewood Road, Willits, CA 95490
>Phone: Mail inquiries only
>
>
>Los Angeles/Southern California
>
>Chris Braswell
>L.A. Grows
>4240 E. Hammel St., Los Angeles, CA 90063
>Phone: 213-526-1460
>E-mail: growingla@aol.com
>
>Yvonne Savio
>Common Ground/U.C. Cooperative Extension
>2 Coral Circle, Monterey Park, CA 91755
>Phone: 213-838-4532
>E-mail: ydsavio@ucdavis.edu
>
>Farmer Net
>A Web listing of farmers markets and community gardens in the LA area.
>
>San Diego/Southern California
>Vince Lazaneo
>U.C. Cooperative Extension
>5555 Overland Ave., Bldg. 4, San Diego, CA 92123
>Phone: 619-694-2845
>E-mail: vflazaneo@ucdavis.edu
>
>California Community Gardening Network
>Mark Westwind, The Praxis Group
>2131 Tacoma Ave., Martinez, CA 94553
>Phone: 925-372-8486
>E-mail: westwind@ccnet.com
>
>
>3) The archives from this listserve should be helpful. Keep going back in the
>archives <A HREF="http://www.mallorn.com/lists/community_garden/">
>community_garden archives</A>
>
>4) I'd talk to a lawyer. Look at the community gardening organizing recipes
>on the main website and figure with your friends how you want to organize
>your group. I like the democratically elected steering committee model
>organized under a not-for-profit corporation - the 501(c) (3). See what you
>feel comfortable with.
>
>5) Being a paranoid New Yorker type, I am the kind of nut that would look a
>gift horse/loan  of a 3-4 acre space in the mouth. It would make sense to
>make local inquiries about the use of the land, to see if the nice utility
>company or any other occupant of the area used it as a dumping ground for
>chemicals, etc. The nice California contacts above could point you towards
>your local Agricultural Extension for the kind of pre-gardening soil testing
>you would want to do. If there are high concentrations of  heavy metals,
>chemicals or whatever in the soil, you may want to pass - The idea, however
>of 3 acres blows me away, we garden on a 150x100 ft area in Midtown Manhattan
>at the Clinton Community Garden:  <A
>HREF="http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org/">Clinton Community Garden</A> .
>
>We buy insurance through the NYC based Neighhorhood Open Space Coallition
>which provides the garden, a 501(c) (3) corporation with liability insurance
>against accidents. This is part of our lease agreement with NYC.
>
>  I don't know why your friendly neighborhood utility wants to be the
>beneficiary of your garden's insurance: it doesn't compute. Maybe you got the
>message wrong? Anyway, I suggest strongly that you discuss this with
>California based community gardening people before you proceed.
>
>There's no reason to re-invent the wheel. Please let us all know how this
>turns out for you.
>
>Happy gardening.
>Adam Honigman
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>##############################################################################
>
>######################
>insurance
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>--
>
>
>we want to start a community garden.  we are just neighbors and not an
>organization or non-profit.  We have found a parcel of land owned by a
>utility company which requires 1 million dollar policy listing them as
>the benefactor.  Where do we get this insurance and how much should it
>cost us?  3-4 acres in sacramento, california.  H-E-L-P
>
>thank you
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>community_garden maillist  -  community_garden@mallorn.com
>https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>community_garden maillist  -  community_garden@mallorn.com
>https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden

Yvonne Savio
Common Ground Garden Program Manager
University of California Cooperative Extension in Los Angeles County
2 Coral Circle, Monterey Park, CA 91755
Phone:	323-838-4532
Fax:		(323) 838-7408
Email:		ydsavio@ucdavis.edu
Website:	celosangeles.ucdavis.edu

Volunteers of the Common Ground Garden Program--Master Gardeners, Master 
Food Preservers, Gardening Angels (school gardens), and Community 
Gardens--help low-income county residents grow and eat more of their own food.  

_______________________________________________
community_garden maillist  -  community_garden@mallorn.com
https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden