Re: re: adam's "thousand points of light" comment
Amanda,
We in NYC are working on our part of a locate a garden database, an interactive
website that is map based and alows you to search for a garden in NYC and view
whatever information we have been able to gather about that garden. It is still
under construction but live and we will release it formally in about a week. You
can view it at: http://www.cmap.nypirg.org/CENYC/cenycmapsearch.asp?
After working on this project for one city it seems that it would be a
monumental project to undertake nationally. But if you want to try, I would help
you however I could so you won't have to reinvent the wheel. I do think it would
be great to have a national garden locator.
Lenny Librizzi
Amanda Maria Edmonds wrote:
> adam, lynn, et al,
>
> i bought david hassler and lynn gregor and don snyder's "a place to grow:
> voices and images of urban gardeners"-- it is beautiful and inspiring,
> just as i expected. it leaves me longing for an even larger compendium,
> and like you, adam, i've been thinking for some time about the best way to
> share it all... the acga site has the "locate a garden" database coming
> soon-- do you think that will serve as, at least, a starting point for
> such a thing? there are obviously many, many great community gardens and
> orgs on the web, but hundreds and hundreds more that are not-- how can
> they best be represented/represent themselves? should such a compendium
> be printed? web-based? i feel overwhelmed (in a totally good way) with
> the plethera of information out there about community gardens and am so
> anxious to see more and more of them, learn more about them, photograph
> them, help document them... if anyone has several thousands of dollars
> lying around that they want to put to good use, i'm more than happy to be
> sponsored to travel the country for several months-- or hey, several
> years-- to visit, to meet, to interview, to LISTEN, to gather, to document
> community gardens (in their own words).... on a more realistic note, i'm
> considering doing my thesis research on profiling community gardeners, and
> possibly trying a large-scale survey (and some more detailed case studies)
> on why community gardens both succeed and fail...
>
> just some thoughts and dreams on a saturday morning in michigan, trying to
> hold out during these last several weeks until we can get our hands in
> cold soil and get that spinach planted!
>
> amanda edmonds
>
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