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I found this on the web from the July 9th San Francisco
Cronicle:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/
c/a/2004/07/09/MNGQQ7J31C1.DTL
about
SLUG
Leslie
Pohl-Kosbau
Portland Community Gardens
Laura,
Here's the contact numbers - and
somebody may be checking in.
San Francisco League of Urban
Gardeners (SLUG)
Mohammed Nuru, Executive Director
Bryan Lease,
Community Garden Coordinator (EMail:slug1@creative.net)
2088 Oakdale
Ave.
San Francisco, Calif. 94124
(415) 285-SLUG (7584)
(415) 285-7586
fax
I had heard some stuff, but being in Manhattan, I don't believe
anything I hear, and half of what I see, generally, and as it's on the left
coast, I'm not a source. But you might have get a sense of what happened
from the coordinator of the nearby Oakland Community Gardens
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Community Gardening Programs
Coordinator: Jacoba van Staveren
250 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Suite 3330, Oakland, CA 94612
Phone (510)
238-2197
j*@oaklandnet.com
As it's part of their Parks and Recreation system, it might be a
balanced view. However,
It would probably be best for you to make a
block of time to take a Jet Blue flight out to SF and walk and see. Because
community garden problems tend to be really personal, you may have to poke
around the gardens themselves to get the whole story.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden ,
NYC
Subj: [cg] San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
Date: 7/22/04 10:22:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: l*@uiuc.edu
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Sent
from the Internet
Does anyone have information on events
that have resulted in SLUG's
downturn? I used to be in touch with
SLUG staff and others but left the
Bay Area a few years ago. I am
including some information on SLUG in a
book that is about to come out,
but am dismayed to learn that SLUG has been
reduced to a 0 staff
organization that is no longer maintaining the
community gardens in San
Francisco. I've heard rumors and I've looked at
some old newspaper
clippings, but anyone who has lived through the crisis
would be very
helpful to talk to.
Thank you,
Laura
Laura Lawson,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape
Architecture
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
101 Buell Hall,
611 East Taft Drive
Champaign, Illinois 61820
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