RE: re: adam's "thousand points of light" comment

H* A*

Amanda,

We are extremely fortunate in having the extremely talented Lenny Librizzi (
master geographer, webwizard, greening hero) as an ACGA member. I'm sure
that any model he cranks out for our use locally would  serve ( with minor
modifications) the whole North American community garden family admirably.

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lenny Librizzi [SMTP:plantlot@rcn.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 05, 2001 10:05 AM
> To:	Amanda Maria Edmonds
> Cc:	community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject:	Re: [cg] 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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