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Community Gardens
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04.14.08Savannah Food Co-op Active, AlmostSome of us in Savannah have been poking around for a local/regional produce box program (that delivers) and/or a CSA ready to sprout. In the meantime, we are following the tenets of Square Foot Gardening, reading classics like One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It or The New Self-Sufficient Gardener, and doing what we can at home. Some of us have taken over a plot at a county park West of the city, and others are harvesting produce in exchange for free labor at friends’ places. Clearly what we’ve needed is a community ...
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02.20.08From little seeds …Just got off the phone with the local parks service and tomorrow I go to check out the garden plots available for planting—free of charge—by Chatham County residents. The director of recreation told me these plots just west of the city used to fill up every year but that over time the number of active planters (from the "older generation") has declined. He hopes some new ones will crop up. Perhaps my desire to grow my own food, and to do so organically, is just a romantic pipe dream. But I am sure it's best to find out ASAP with the assistance ...
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12.28.07Buzzword, Locavore. Ironic Fallacy?The words of the year for 2007 have been determined. The Oxford American Dictionary picks “locavore” (noun) • one who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius such as 50, 100, or 150 miles. The term “locavore” was coined two years ago in San Francisco by a group whose official membership has since grown to include participants all over the world, including several in Georgia. The group exchanges tips and celebrates their respective foodsheds (path from supplier to table and everything in between). While trying to zero in on my foodshed, I learned that the modern U.S. foodshed ...
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12.16.07It’s about more than produce…The map at localharvest.org still doesn't show much happening in community gardening or Community Sustained Agriculture in Savannah or Chatham County. Nonetheless, there are people around here who are and who have been bringing organic farm products to their families and this community all the while. They are working on the community garden thing and even residential communities too. Meet Michael Maddox, an organic farmer/gardener in the Bloomingdale area who sits on a 25-acre organic homestead. Maddox has presided over this land and tended it, organically, for some 15 years. Using learned tricks of the trade and tending a passion for gardening, ...
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12.05.07Community supported agriculture in our area?On my regular trips to see family in Allegany, New York, one of the highlights is harvesting my sister-in -law's weekly "share" from Canticle Garden, a community garden sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany and guided by a dedicated core group of local residents. Each week shareholders go to the farm and pick (or pick up from a small staffed tent) whatever is in at the time--a pound of this, two heads of that, a quart of these and three bunches of those... Taking home and using whatever is in season at the moment-- eating beets or cabbage or romaine ...
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