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Re: Did you see the news about the NYC comm. gardens sale being cancelled?

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Janet:

Yes, I read the Thursday, May 13, 1999 article about the various groups, including Bette Midler, who help raise $4.21 million dollars to release the neighborhood gardens held hostage by Mayor Giuliani. 

I was especially appalled at Giuliani's cavalier attitude towards the various individuals trying to keep their urban community gardens intact. Giuliani warned that communism was no longer to be tolerated in New York. 

I wonder why community gardens are to be feared as tools of communism? Maybe it means that lower middle class and poor people might actually improve their lives and those of the children in the neighborhood?

I am so glad that all the individuals and foundations were able to pay $400,000 per acre for these important urban oases.

This is a shameful situation, especially at a time when most mayors in American urban communities are working to make more urban space available to gardening and other similar natural uses for empty lots in cities across the United States.

Janet, thanks for bringing this important gardening issue to light. As a gardener who has enough garden space to feed an army, I am humbled by all the SQFTers and other gardeners who develop their gardens and make beautiful living spaces in the middle of our largest cement jungles, our American cities.

Best regards,
Sheryl A. McCoy
---
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her
patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric
reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
-Richard Feynman


On Thu, 13 May 1999 23:50:55   Janet Wintermute wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>Front page of today's Washington Post!  Entertainer Bette Midler and other
>unnamed celebrities ponied up $4.2 million and bought ALL the 115 parcels
>Mayor Giuliana was putting on the auction block this week.
>
>Whew!  Close call.
>
>The article can be found at www.washingtonpost.com
>
>Cheers--Janet
>
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