Re: Articles of Incorporation

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Carol,

Please feel free to use our corporate bylaws as a template for a local 
Washington state pro-bono atty to use in fashioning your Washington State 
appropriate language.  
 <A HREF="http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org/";>Clinton Community Garden</A>
 . 

Also, it might be helpful for you to reach out to your local Trust for Public 
Land branch for Washington State appropriate language for non-for-profit 
groups managing public land: 
Just paste this link in your browser to follow up on TPL:
http://www.tpl.org/

Re: Anybody out there have experience in cross-cultural training as part of a 
gardening community?  

Community gardens have attracted their share of anthropologists, sociologists 
and other academic quantifiers of people  - we're fairly easy to study.  But 
as an active community garden volunteer the game is different.  
The issue seems to be basic fairness - devising by consensus the same rules 
for everyone and maintaining a commitment to listen, learn and play fair.  
People bring different things to the table - the key is to be aware of and 
respect different cultures while understanding that all individuals are 
different.  This is really basic survival  training in my polyglot world, as 
they are in in any large, diverse city that doesn't want to burn down every 
summer over bonehead mis-understandings. 
In NYC, we have so many cultures and languages, that there is a baseline of 
mutual respect (or cynics would say indifference) that makes it work for us.  
And depending on where there is a war or famine in the world, we get new 
folks in NYC , and new folks in our neighborhood signing up for garden keys. 
Currently, our garden rules are in English, Spanish and Arabic.  Ten years 
ago, we had rules in Russian & Serbo Croatian.  A friend who is a member of a 
community garden near Chinatown in lower Manhattan found that when garden 
rules and signage were posted in Chinese, that active Chinese participation 
increased - as in, "You have signage in my language , you expect people from 
my country here.  

Hope that helped,
Adam Honigman

Our native American community are usually Mohawks who live near the Canadian 
border ,Aztec/Mexicans , or African Americans who self identify as being part 
Cherokee or Creek. As all read or communicate in either English of Spanish 
and are tremdous gardeners, there is a baseline for communication.    

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