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Yard Sharing
Dear Gardening Community,
My name is Joshua Patterson I am posting this message to let you know about a program I am trying to get started in Portland, Oregon. Its called Yard Sharing. We all have that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or that patch of grass we always neglect on the side or in the back of our yard. Maybe your neglected space is in your front yard. Here in Portland our community gardens are overwhelmed with people. We have too many people who want to have a garden and not enough space. So I have gotten the idea of sharing yards with people who want or need food producing gardens. I have created a website where people can post spaces available or people can post that they would like to create a garden. Its free I will never charge to post or view or anything like that. I am just trying to build a sustainable community and find a good way to allow people to grow their own food. Please check out our website at http://www.yardsharing.org and let us know what you think. If you have ideas about how we can make this program grow please let us know.. Joshua Patterson |
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On Oct 20, 12:29*am, Skylermoon wrote:
Dear Gardening Community, My name is Joshua Patterson I am posting this message to let you know about a program I am trying to get started in Portland, Oregon. Its called Yard Sharing. We all have that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or that patch of grass we always neglect on the side or in the back of our yard. Maybe your neglected space is in your front yard. Here in Portland our community gardens are overwhelmed with people. We have too many people who want to have a garden and not enough space. So I have gotten the idea of sharing yards with people who want or need food producing gardens. I have created a website where people can post spaces available or people can post that they would like to create a garden. Its free I will never charge to post or view or anything like that. I am just trying to build a sustainable community and find a good way to allow people to grow their own food. Please check out our website athttp://www.yardsharing.organd let us know what you think. If you have ideas about how we can make this program grow please let us know.. Joshua Patterson I'd be interested in how it works out. My experience in garden sharing is mostly that they only want to share in the harvest after I get it in a bag and never want to share in the planting or maintaining of the garden. And if they do share in the planting and maintaining, then they want to do something entirely different then what I am doing and know to work. |
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, CanopyCo wrote: On Oct 20, 12:29*am, Skylermoon wrote: Dear Gardening Community, My name is Joshua Patterson I am posting this message to let you know about a program I am trying to get started in Portland, Oregon. Its called Yard Sharing. We all have that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or that patch of grass we always neglect on the side or in the back of our yard. Maybe your neglected space is in your front yard. Here in Portland our community gardens are overwhelmed with people. We have too many people who want to have a garden and not enough space. So I have gotten the idea of sharing yards with people who want or need food producing gardens. I have created a website where people can post spaces available or people can post that they would like to create a garden. Its free I will never charge to post or view or anything like that. I am just trying to build a sustainable community and find a good way to allow people to grow their own food. Please check out our website athttp://www.yardsharing.organd let us know what you think. If you have ideas about how we can make this program grow please let us know.. Joshua Patterson I'd be interested in how it works out. My experience in garden sharing is mostly that they only want to share in the harvest after I get it in a bag and never want to share in the planting or maintaining of the garden. And if they do share in the planting and maintaining, then they want to do something entirely different then what I am doing and know to work. I'd love to do this here, but they'd need to split the cost of the water with me. ;-) And share the weeding chores... -- Peace! Om "He who has the gold makes the rules" --Om "He who has the guns can get the gold." -- Steve Rothstein |
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phorbin wrote: People tend to value what they put money into or they value what makes them money. Two kinds of direct feedback that result in, among other things, food. That's not why I garden. I garden for pleasure, intellectual and culinary. I'm sure that my money would thrive better in a different environment. -- Billy Republican and Democratic "Leadership" Behind Bars http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1248.shtml http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net |
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[This followup was posted to rec.gardens.edible and a copy was sent to
the cited author.] In article 9e6598d5-dd65-4fd3-8b60-595cee845ca8 @i18g2000prf.googlegroups.com, says... Dear Gardening Community, My name is Joshua Patterson I am posting this message to let you know about a program I am trying to get started in Portland, Oregon. Its called Yard Sharing. We all have that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or that patch of grass we always neglect on the side or in the back of our yard. Maybe your neglected space is in your front yard. Here in Portland our community gardens are overwhelmed with people. We have too many people who want to have a garden and not enough space. So I have gotten the idea of sharing yards with people who want or need food producing gardens. I have created a website where people can post spaces available or people can post that they would like to create a garden. Its free I will never charge to post or view or anything like that. I am just trying to build a sustainable community and find a good way to allow people to grow their own food. Please check out our website at http://www.yardsharing.org and let us know what you think. If you have ideas about how we can make this program grow please let us know.. Joshua Patterson I'd suggest you work out some kind of contract that clearly delineates responsibility and who has to pay for irrigation, clean-up, etc. and how much for a season. Things like this look very good at first blush but without some kind of formalized arrangement between owners, the city, etc. it could turn into a real mess. --With issues of insurance, it may already be a real mess waiting to be turned over. What about ownership of the produce in the case of a dispute? Curbside gardens of any kind are currently illegal in London Ontario Canada. --It may be different in Portland, but growing corn at the curbside, for instance, would probably be considered a traffic hazard just about anywhere. Finally, such as it is, the public garden system here is subject to a fair bit of theft. How are you going to account for theft from what is clearly considered common land for common use? That is, anything and everything at curbside is divorced from an owner and therefore fair game, for all. Then there's vandalism. |
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"Skylermoon" wrote in message
... Dear Gardening Community, My name is Joshua Patterson I am posting this message to let you know about a program I am trying to get started in Portland, Oregon. Its called Yard Sharing. We all have that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or that patch of grass we always neglect on the side or in the back of our yard. Maybe your neglected space is in your front yard. Here in Portland our community gardens are overwhelmed with people. We have too many people who want to have a garden and not enough space. So I have gotten the idea of sharing yards with people who want or need food producing gardens. I have created a website where people can post spaces available or people can post that they would like to create a garden. Its free I will never charge to post or view or anything like that. I am just trying to build a sustainable community and find a good way to allow people to grow their own food. Please check out our website at http://www.yardsharing.org and let us know what you think. If you have ideas about how we can make this program grow please let us know.. Joshua Patterson Curbside, maybe you should look into the problems with easement, liability, and right-of-way. -- Dave If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not a cantaloupe. |
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