[BCNA] Belmont Neighborhood Gardens Proposal - Please contact me if interested.

[Molly Cliborne]

This is a great idea!  I am webmaster for BCNA & could add this online  
forum to the BCNA website, if the association approves.  Unless you  
have another plan.

MC



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Molly Cliborne
(434) 244-0012
www.north-node.com





On Jun 28, 2009, at 3:49 PM, kimber hawkey wrote:

> “Fruits of Our Labor”
>
> Neighborhood Gardens Proposal
>
> Fruits of Our Labor Neighborhood Gardens
>
> Founder/Director:  Kimber Leigh Hawkey
>
> 709 Belmont Ave, 293-3789, hawkeyk at yahoo.com
>
> 1st Proposal Draft for a Belmont Neighborhood Garden:
>
> Belmont Neighborhood Garden (future gardens within the network =  
> “(Name of Neighborhood) + Neighborhood Garden”
>
> The Belmont Neighborhood Garden is meant to be a pilot program to  
> evaluate the viability of creating a network of community urban  
> neighborhood gardens.  Each neighborhood garden would share  
> resources as much as member-gradeners needs and wants.
>
> In the future, should this project do well, there would be a  
> possibility of setting up a service venture whereby we provide the  
> service of organizing and maintaining the neighborhood garden  
> network.  In the future, for new neighborhood gardens, there could  
> be a nominal entry fee to cover the administrative costs of  
> maintaining and organizing this network of each of these  
> neighborhood gardens.
>
> Plan:  contact and organize (1) all of the current gardeners, (2)  
> people with fruit trees not being harvested, and (3) people who  
> would like to install a garden within the Belmont-Carleton  
> neighborhood with a view to coordinating our plantings and sharing  
> in the produce and/or flowers grown.  Sharing of produce, flowers,  
> materials, manpower and knowledge.
>
> At this stage, we are not looking to obtain a plot of land that  
> everyone works and shares, but rather to utilize the neighborhood  
> backyard/frontyard gardens (that each member maintains on their own)  
> in a cooperative fashion.
>
> Preferably, this gardening effort will be done with a view to  
> practicing pesticide-free, chemical-free, organic gardening  
> practices.  Biodegradable, nonharmful products such as seaweed oils  
> or NEEM would be allowed, however.
>
> Method:
>
> 1.      Obtain and put into an onine forum (Box.net, Google doc  
> database, Yahoo! group) the following info. which is to be updated  
> on a regular basis:
> a.     contact info
> b.     what growing in current gardens or what each gardener would  
> like to grow.
> c.      amount being grown of what they would like to share
>
> 2.      Within this online arena people could publish:
> a.      what they have ready to harvest/offer
> b.     if they needed assistance in the garden
> c.      ask/answer gardening questions
> d.     seek help for garden care when going on vacation.
> e.      offer/request a loan of materials
> 3.      Possibilities for site to share veg/plants/fruit:
> a.      Rotate yards/houses with member network.
> b.      Neighborhood Church involvement: ask Belmont Baptist Church,  
> Church St. Church, or the Mennonite Church about using their parking  
> lot area.
> c.      Local neighborhood school involvement: Clark School yard.   
> Use school yards to grow food as part of an educational project as  
> well?
> 4.      Questions to answer
> a.     how to determine “shares”
> b.     do we require that things be grown organically, pesticide free?
> c.      use some kind of bartering coupons?
> d.     how to determine equivalencies between produce and flowers,  
> i.e.  1 plant = 1plant? ; 1lb = 1lb? ; 2lb of veg = 1 pint of berries?
> e.     how to decide about members selling their products within or  
> without the network?  Should there be some kind of commitment or not  
> to amounts?
> f.       f.  do we combine to meet the 5lb. minimum of purchase by  
> the Local Food Hub?
>
> The cooperative service could include possibly:
>
> 1.     sharing of excess produce grown
> 2.     swapping of seeds, seedlings, and cuttings for propagation.
> 3.     sharing of resources, i.e roto-tillers, pots, etc.
> 4.     sharing of advice and knowledge
> 5.     taking care of garden/watering while if a member goes on  
> vacation.
> 6.     using barter dollars/credits for produce or time spent in  
> someone else garden.
>
> Please contact me at the above address/email/phone if you’d like to  
> participate in this pilot project in any way and add your name to  
> the list.  Thank you!
>
> Current Members:
>
> 1.   Kimber Hawkey/Charles Gendrot 709 Belmont Ave
> 2.   Ivana Kadja/Brian Wimer 704 Belmont Ave
> 3.   Bruce + Barbara 707 Belmont Ave
> 4.   Colleen Bishop
> 5.
> 6.
> 7.
> 8.
>
>
>
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