Re: 23 cities funded back in eraly 80's for food gardening

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Sally, Tiffany and all,
One of the early Community Greening Reviews, I think it was 96 or 97 did an in depth article about the 23 cities program. I am writing from home as we are still phoneless 
in our office or I would have the right year. I don't know if there are any copies to be had. Sally Mc Cabe may know.  My recollection is that it started as a much smaller 
program- 4 or 5 cities then expanded to the 23 cities. Funding ended when Rep Fred Richmond retired and there was no champion for the program. The 23 cities money 
was real dollars that funded programs thru the land grand universities cooperative extention programs in the selected cities (bonus points to any one who can name the 
23). The latest money was a USDA Millenium gardening allocation of $250,000 to fund community garden coordinators in all 50 states. We tried to talk them out of it. Not 
much that a coordinator can do on a statewide level for $5000. Mostly it was dumped on  someone who had many other jobs to do. I haven't heard of anything that 
came out of this money and I don't think the funding was for more than one year.
Lenny Librizzi

9/23/2001 12:05:27 PM, "Sadler, Sally-Anne" <Sally-Anne.Sadler@METROKC.GOV> wrote:

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>   Dear Tiffany,
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>   Hi.  I could be getting some of these facts wrong, perhaps Tom Tyler, the
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>   ACGA Pres and an ag. agent can correct me.  But my understanding is that
>   that USDA back in the early 80's funded 23 (26?) cities around the US to
>   start food gardening projects.  That money paid for an agent/faculty
>   member for WSU Coop. Extension King County. (Seattle)   That funding dried
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>   up and some of the projects continue, like ours in Seattle, the Urban Food
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>   I think that is the background.  Details, I am not so sure about.
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>   Sally Anne Sadler
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>   Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:06:49 -0600
>   From: Tiffany Bucknam <tbucknam@du.edu>
>   To: community_garden@mallorn.com
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>   Subject: [cg] policy question
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>   Hello. I am a social work student interning in a community
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>   gardening agency. My supervisor asked me a question about
>   policy that I'm having a hard time answering. Maybe you can
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>   He mentioned to me that in the late 1970's/early 1980's
>   legislation was passed that funded the start of community
>   gardening organizations in each state. Then, more recently,
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>   another bill was passed that provided funds for community
>   gardening as well. I'm having a booger of a time hunting down
>   the exact bills, but I think that the recent one is the Community
>   Food Securities Act of 1995.
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>   My question is twofold. First, what are these bills? Second, did
>   the funds provided in the first bill get replaced by the funds
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>   provided in the second, or is that money still available?
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>   If anybody has any info on this, I would love to hear from you.
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>   Thanks!!!
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>   Tiffany Bucknam
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>   tbucknam@du.edu

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