RE: Re: community_garden digest, Vol 1 #860 - 4 msgs

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1) This was excerpted from a response to a similar request (i.e., how to
create a regular raised)  by Jack Hale, a master gardener and CG garden
program administrator:

"In our smaller gardens on bad soil, we often build raised beds that are 4'
by 8' and a foot deep. We use recycled plastic landscape timbers that are
about 3" thick. It takes 12 timbers, 4 of them cut in half, plus about 30 6"
galvanized twist deck spikes to make one bed. It holds just over 1 yard of
soil. I figure a little over $100 per bed when I'm budgeting. There are
cheaper ways to do raised beds - making them bigger, for instance - but this
size is very solid and easy to build. A group of people can pick them up and
move them after they have been constructed. They make a nice manageable unit
within the garden."
Jack Hale gets plastic timbers called "Novawood" from Obex, Inc., in
Stamford, CT. Get in touch with Celeste Johnson
(203) 975-9094
celestemary@juno.com <c*@juno.com>

Note: The plastic landscape timbers are non-reactive and do not leach
chemicals into the soil. If you choose to use wood - USE ONLY UNTREATED
WOOD. NASTY THINGS LIKE ARSENIC AND OTHER CHEMICALS LEACH INTO THE SOIL FROM
ALL PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER,  MAKING IT TOXIC.

2) For a senior  in a wheelchair, we made an enabled bed in our garden in
brick about 2' high, 3' wide and 9 foot long next to one of our back garden
paths. We may build a hollow square one ( with one of the sides missing) in
the future as an alternative design. Here is the website of the garden I
volunteer in: http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org

You'll probably be interested in these enabled gardening sites:  
The Wonderful Canadian city farmer site:
http://www.cityfarmer.org/urbagnotes1.html#notes

The commercial garden forever site is a great source of tools and enabled
gardening aids.
http://www.gardenforever.com/pages/artenabled.htm

Search through this site for information on enabled gardening, the Chicago
Botanic garden  is a pioneer 

http://www.chicago-botanic.org/Images/explore/enable/EnableGuide.pdf
Once you're established as a garden,  please consider joining the American
Community Gardening Association.  For 25 bucks a year you instantly become
part of an international organization (we have Canadians, Japanese and a
coupla European members) of community gardeners. Check out this link for all
the goodies you can get as a member:
http://www.communitygarden.org/about/membership.html 
There are karmic benefits to joining the ACGA as well.

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Gordon [b*@cruzio.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:20 AM
To: AMERCOMMGARDEN
Subject: [cg] Re: community_garden digest, Vol 1 #860 - 4 msgs

I'm looking for specifications for a raised bed that will accommodate a
person in a wheelchair.  Do any of you know of such?? I work with students
at San Jose State U in San Jose, California.  Sometimes I have students who
have various physical disabilities such as blindness or other physical
constraints.  Some are wheelchair bound.  I know that there are different
chairs, heights and so on but someone must know something about raised beds
that fit for many.  I cannot find anything.  Can anyone help??
Thanks,
Barbara

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