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Mr Leonard:

Here are some on-line links that I hope may be of service to you. Good luck
with your project.

Try out these in-Chicago resources:

The University of Chicago Urban Extension:
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/programs/soul.html

The Cooks County Sherrif's Garden:

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/programs/dscigarden.html

The educational resources at the Chicago Botanical Garden are superb ( I'm a
big fan of their "Enabled Garden" for seniors and folks in wheelchairs.)

You may want to talk things over with other community gardeners in your
area. I'm a big fan of the scrappy "Frankie Machine " community garden:

There is always the City of Chicago Dept. of the Environment:
http://www.cityofchicago.org/

Here's the web archive for Mike Novak's WGN Chicago gardening show:
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/gardening/info.htm

I'd also contact the Trust for Public Land in your part of the world: 

http://www.igc.apc.org/tpl/nearu/mwro/

You may want to talk to the nice people at the Schomburg Library in NYC

http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

This book "African-American Gardens and Yards in  the Rural South" by
Richard Westmacott may be of interest to you:

http://sunsite.utk.edu/utpress/y_fw199899/westmac.htm

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent:	Wednesday, December 27, 2000 12:35 AM
> To:	community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject:	[cg] (no subject)
> 
> I am the Director of the North Lawndale Community Small Grants Initiative,
> based on the West Side of Chicago.  We are currently developing an
> African-themed community garden on the corner of 12th Place and Central
> Park.  The development of the garden will be preceded by a community-wide
> research project.  Residents, students and church groups will be asked to
> research the African American experience in North Lawndale, (people,
> traditions, arts, culture) and draw relationships to the arts and culture
> in
> Durban, South Africa.  The planting, garden layout, and artwork will be
> driven by results of the research and a design charrette.  While we are
> not
> preserving an historic structure, we are preserving the history of a
> community and raising a level of pride.  Who in your agency might I
> contact
> to discuss the project in further detail?  We are looking for funding
> and/or
> technical assistance.  Total project costs are approximately $220,000.
> 
> 
> 
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