RE: How many CG in U.S.? (State CG Coordinator)

**K*@ceq.eop.gov**

For the State Gardening Coordinators:
I will send around a contact list later today for all the coordinators that
have been named.

Karen Hobbs

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To:   "Jack N. Hale" <jackh@knoxparks.org>, community_garden@mallorn.com

cc:   Karen Hobbs/CEQ/EOP
Subject:  RE: [cg] How many CG in U.S.? (State CG Coordinator)

Speaking of the USDA state CG Coordinators, does
anyone have a clue how to find out who that person is
and how to get hold of them?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Kevin
--- "Jack N. Hale" <jackh@knoxparks.org> wrote:
> It occurs to me that Secretary of Agriculture Dan
> Glickman has mandated
> appointment of a community garden coordinator for
> each state.  Maybe it
> should be one of their jobs to get some kind of
> count or measure of
> community gardening activity in their territory.
> The trick would be to keep
> it simple enough so that it could actually be done.
> It would, of course be
> interesting to get numbers of gardens, acreage,
> numbers of people involved,
> etc., but we probably wouldn't want to push much
> farther than that.
> Jack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   community_garden-admin@mallorn.com
> [community_garden-admin@mallorn.com] On
> Behalf Of Fred Conrad
> Sent:   Monday, May 08, 2000 4:43 PM
> To:     community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject:     RE: [cg] How many CG in U.S.?
>
> I'm just doing this because I don't feel like
> working and I can still look
> really busy.
>
> It appears that figuring a national number based on
> one city isn't going to
> yield a very defendable number.  Too many variables.
>
> In Atlanta, all over the southeast perhaps, where
> land was relatively
> inexpensive and zoning non-existant, urban
> neighborhoods are indeed verdant.
> Neighborhoods here are often forests because the
> houses are mostly detached
> single-family units on generous lots.  Elderly
> people have their own yards
> to cope with, and tackling abandoned property
> (garden style) with just a few
> folks is quite a chore.  I don't know how many
> vacant lots we have, but it
> works out to about 1,300 acres I believe.
>
> Urban redevelopment has only wiped out one garden
> (Charles Allen Community
> Garden) that I know of here.  It didn't make the
> news and our Mayor, Bill
> Campbell, supports the gardens and has even
> dedicated one of them (Ashview
> Community Garden).  It's like we're not in the same
> country as New York.
>
> The worst part is, John Rocker doesn't want us to
> bring any New Yorkers down
> here to fill up the empty spaces!  He keeps getting
> really nervous about who
> is riding MARTA with him and that screws up his
> pitching, and we can't have
> that!
>
> fgc
> Community Garden Coordinator
> Atlanta Community Food Bank
> 970 Jefferson Street, NW
> Atlanta, GA  30318
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Honigman, Adam
> [A*@Bowne.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 4:56 PM
> To: 'Fred Conrad'; 'Jack N. Hale'; John & Keisha;
> community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject: RE: [cg] How many CG in U.S.?
>
>
> NYC with it's 7.5 million has 500 - 600 community
> gardens as of this morning
> ( sometimes this administration bulldozes a few in a
> day, I'm serious!)
> Which gives us one garden per 15,000 residents. But
> comrades, we are dealing
> with one of the worst ratios of people to open space
> in any major American
> city 1.5 acres per 1,000 citizens. And this includes
> Prospect, Van Contlandt
> and Monaco Sized Central Park.  Boston is positively
> verdant with 2.5 per
> thousand. Gardeners consume alot of adult beverage,
> but often it's high
> sodium because of the considerable crying that we do
> in our beer. So we
> drink more.
>
> In case anyone thinks that these gardens need to be
> destroyed to house the
> teeming millions, we have an additional 11,000
> vacant lots that could be
> built on before a single garden is bulldozed.
>
> Upstate is so sparsely occupied, we send them NYC
> residents on a regular
> basis via the draconic Rockefeller Drug Laws, to
> help populate Pataki land
> for 10-25 year stretches. Those upstate rustbelt
> type towns are so desperate
> for cash, they compete over who gets the prisons.
> The La Esperanza garden
> was destroyed with snow on the ground, so the garden
> wars are a year round
> affair here.
>
> In envy of those who merely battle indifference,
>
> Adam Honigman
>
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