Re: community_garden digest, Vol 1 #2058 - 2 msgs

**"Marilyn Rodgers" M*@msn.com**

cool, I also write articles (a wordsmith, if you please) been writing for
Explore Magazine and many others.  We need to start a professional looking
newsletter - no cartoons or cheap clip art - we can use true photos.

Let's start with some shots of the community gardens already here as winter
shots - that's right - all snow covered and cold looking - name them - then
each month show their progress (only one or two) to keep people's spirits up
about the weather.

Then we can get submissions with the right to edit for content and have
involvement there.  We'll work on a printer for in-kind services as a bonus
for us using them for the cook/nutrition book and poster/flyer/stationery
stuff......

Hey, I've got an idea for the stuff we're working on for you about
"listening".......  We'll use a sign - cupping the ear means - listen...I
think part of it is your hearing aid, as well..............  This is a
blessing since it reminds me, too.  We gotta make sure you're A-1 with all
situations cu you be special, G!

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    1. Wheelbarrow wheel source? (Alliums)
    2. article for community garden list serve (Christine Kirby)

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  Message: 1
  From: "Alliums"
<garlicgrower@green-logic.com<g*@green-logic.com>>
  To: "'Market Farming'"
<market-farming@lists.ibiblio.org<m*@lists.ibiblio.org>>,
"Cg $cg$"
  <community_garden@mallorn.com<community_garden@mallorn.com>>
  Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:25:42 -0500
  Subject: [cg] Wheelbarrow wheel source?

  Hi, Folks!

  Does anyone have a good source to get replacement wheelbarrow wheels?  Our
  adjudicated youth are hard on our wheelbarrows and the wheels (especially
  the solid ones) are always getting flat/damaged/whatever.  FixAFlat can
only
  take you far with teenagers! ;-)

  Anyway, Sear's Hardware wants $30 for a wheelbarrow wheel -- almost as much
  as a new wheelbarrow.  If we could find a good source for replacement
  wheels, it would help our budget a lot!

  Thanks for the help!

  Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
  St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth

  A mission of
  St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA  19460

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  Message: 2
  From: "Christine Kirby"
<ckirby@regionalfoodbank.org<c*@regionalfoodbank.org>>
  To: <community_garden@mallorn.com<community_garden@mallorn.com>>
  Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:43:02 -0600
  Subject: [cg] article for community garden list serve

  We would like to submit the following article to the ACGA list serve.
  Thanks!

  Community Gardening is Thriving in Oklahoma City

  Thanks to the initial support from the Oklahoma City Community
  Foundation and the continuing support and home from the Regional Food
  Bank of Oklahoma, community gardening is thriving in Oklahoma City.
  Urban Harvest is an urban agriculture program with the mission of
  providing better access to fresh fruits and vegetables to people
  especially in low income areas.

  The three main focus areas in the program are the 3 1/2 acres of ground
  that surrounds the Regional Food Bank that is used for organically grown
  fresh fruit and vegetable production, teaching and demonstration; assist
  with 19 community gardens providing advice, equipment, seeds,
  transplants, partnership building, education and hands-on learning; and
  crop gleaning with small to large Oklahoma growers, farmers market and
  backyard gardeners.  The program has been expanding rapidly in the past
  two years and hopes to serve the 53 counties in Oklahoma in the future
  which is the service area for the food bank.

  We have just recently harvested 45 lbs of radishes and turnip greens in
  our hoop house (unheated) that we built this past fall that we held as a
  two day workshop with the expert help of Steve Upson of the Noble
  Foundation.   The quality and flavor is fabulous!  The lettuce and
  turnips should be ready to harvest beginning in a week or so and we will
  be planting tomatoes and peppers on March 15 in the hoop house which is
  30 days before our last average frost free date.  All crops that are
  grown at the food bank are harvested and then distributed to on-site
  feeding programs, shelters, emergency food pantries, children and senior
  programs.  We have working models of composting, vermicomposting, cover
  crops, season extension, drip irrigation, organic vegetable production,
  vegetable transplant production and much more.  This season we will
  begin seed distribution to 140 different agencies so they can either
  grow vegetables at their agency to feed the poor or to distribute
  directly to their clients.

  The 19 community gardens plus 3 new gardens that we work with are
  phenomenal!  There are so many stories to tell about each garden and the
  incredible impact that they make to their community.  In the coming
  months, I will share some of those stories.

  In our crop gleaning program, we have many links and continue to make
  new links with local growers, farmer markets and home gardeners, FFA &
  4-H students for donations and gathering that help to feed the hungry in
  Oklahoma.  It is a combination of Plant A Row for the Hungry and a crop
  gleaning program.

  If you are ever in Oklahoma City, please give us a call and we would
  love to show you what we are doing.  We really like to meet people doing
  similar things as we do because we learn so much from you.  We have a
  really great team with Urban Harvest and they are Bruce Edwards, alias
  Farmer Bruce, the gardening coordinator; Jerry Newhouse, VISTA community
  gardening liaison; Casey McKinney, VISTA Urban Harvest Marketing and
  Development and I am Chris Kirby, Director of Urban Harvest.   Have a
  great gardening season!!  You can contact us at 405-972-1111 ext 108 or
  email ckirby@regionalfoodbank.org<c*@regionalfoodbank.org>.

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