RE: what a show

P* L*

Good work, New York. Glad to hear about the rallying of community gardeners
and enthused friends of parks and gardens. Way to grow!

Leslie Pohl-Kosbau
Portland Community Gardens

-----Original Message-----
From: Honigman, Adam [A*@Bowne.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 8:01 AM
To: 'jackh@knoxparks.org'; Community Garden List Serve; ACGA board list
serve
Subject: RE: [cg] what a show

Comrades,

I got to the 17th Annual Green Thumb Growtogether around noon, after temple.
There were still folks lined up to sign in and catch the afternoon classes,
so the grand total looked more like 2,000 by the end of the day. There were
huge lines for lunch and t-shirts, gardeners and those who love them from
all over the city. Dan Ross and  Urban Agriculture people really did impress
everyone: there will be more cg plots for the hungry this year. 

Standout discussion groups: A great lady from Northeastern Paralyzed
Veterans gave a great talk on "Enabled Gardening", Lenny Librizzi's garden
mapping and database project wowed everyone who visited it. 

Edie Stone is a great MC and has some of the best people and political
skills I've seen anywhere. Her Greenthumb staff is truly outstanding. 

The struggle now is to get the parks budget ( and Greenthumb, is a part of
NYC Parks)  raised from .46 of NYC's budget to at least 1%.

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jack N. Hale [SMTP:jackh@knoxparks.org]
> Sent:	Sunday, March 25, 2001 10:16 PM
> To:	Community Garden List Serve; ACGA board list serve
> Subject:	[cg] what a show
> 
> Seems like practically everybody made it to the Bronx this weekend.  Green
> Thumb put on a little conference for New York community gardeners.  Only
> about 1000 people showed up!!!  The apparently Rev. Bobby Wilson of the
> ACGA board got everybody stirred up, although he claimed he wasn't using
> his real preaching voice.  Sounded like preaching to me, and I think I
> heard a few "amens."
> Dan Ross and friends from Holyoke, Mass. brought a real message of hope.
> Their urban agriculture efforts impress everyone.
> Edie Stone was a great MC.
> Good work, everybody.  It was a pleasure to be there.  See you in Salt
> Lake City in September.
> Jack

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