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Post by dive61364 on Mar 9, 2014 17:20:09 GMT -6
there is plenty of vacant space around town to do this type of thing in Streator. in Chicago they allow gardens in vacant lots.
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Post by freonsaturday on Mar 9, 2014 19:51:34 GMT -6
I have a little pull at St. Mary's and we have a large empty lot at Spring and Park, anyone interested?
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Mar 9, 2014 21:22:24 GMT -6
I do a lot in containers on my roof, but I might be interested in some space for things I can't do, let me know. Community gardens are a great idea in my opinion.
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Post by toshiko on Mar 10, 2014 6:33:58 GMT -6
Some communities have community gardens where you can get a plot to use either for free or small seasonal fee. Would be good for those without yard space Great idea, great way to meet neighbors and exchange ideas too. Not only raise some fresh food, but promotes community as well. Many of my neighbors have gardens, and they share, not only the produce, but let us plant a section. I traded garlic, for cilantro, and we all swap plants. Looking forward, to planting, at the house across the street. Habitat for Humanity house.
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Post by freonsaturday on Mar 10, 2014 16:56:20 GMT -6
I will run it up the flagpole!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2014 6:49:09 GMT -6
People that live in subsidize housing should have a community garden. I think that having a community garden is a great idea for a couple of reason. For one a garden puts food on the table. Two, could be a good way to know your neighbors. Three, might get some good garden tips.
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Post by seaturtle43 in hostile forum on Mar 11, 2014 8:16:26 GMT -6
People that live in subsidize housing should have a community garden. I think that having a community garden is a great idea for a couple of reason. For one a garden puts food on the table. Two, could be a good way to know your neighbors. Three, might get some good garden tips. I agree and have a gardening program in place to educate and involve the children.
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Post by dive61364 on Mar 11, 2014 14:00:16 GMT -6
I love the idea about community gardening. I would imagine there has to be some legal hoops to jump through to make this possible before anything sprouts out of the ground.
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Post by seaturtle43 in hostile forum on Mar 11, 2014 15:02:18 GMT -6
worth looking into
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Post by freonsaturday on Mar 11, 2014 16:37:56 GMT -6
People that live in subsidize housing should have a community garden. I think that having a community garden is a great idea for a couple of reason. For one a garden puts food on the table. Two, could be a good way to know your neighbors. Three, might get some good garden tips. I agree and have a gardening program in place to educate and involve the children. Way ahead of you, sea! We already started seedlings at Northlawn and St. Michael's. I ran the community garden idea up the chain, we will see what happens! Meanwhile, anybody who wants to garden and doesn't have space and would like their own plot at St. Mary's, shoot me an email at Richard.Struck@hshs.org. The more people I can show the administrators, the better our chances! Think Spring-REALLY hard!
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Post by freonsaturday on Mar 11, 2014 16:40:12 GMT -6
Oh yeah, and anybody who wants to help us start at Northlawn and St. Michael's should contact me too. We will have to wait until the mud and goo subside... maybe July?
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Post by freonsaturday on Mar 17, 2014 21:14:21 GMT -6
My wife had a good sized garden two summers ago. She had to water it extensively and got OK results. Last year her garden was a bit smaller but yielded lots more with very little watering. If you remember, 2 years ago was brutally hot and dry while last year we had a totally wet spring. It's amazing, just a short natural rain and the plants perk up, but douse them with treated city water, and it doesn't seem to have the same effect. We plan on planting a wide variety of stuff this year. The back yard chickens love some scrap food, greens, and spoiled veggies. LOL, they even ate the spring onions that were planted in their run......pre-seasoned chicken??? We might try canning or maybe freezing if we get another good year this year. It's a lot of work, but that fresh produce you raise yourself always tastes so good. You just can't eat it all when it matures, and the season passes so fast. Even the fruit trees produced super abundantly last year. The freshly harvested apples, cherries, peaches........it was a good year. It was the first year our young peach trees had a harvest. It was just a half dozen peaches. We are looking forward to this year, I hope the harsh Winter didn't kill them. The reason that city water doesn't work the same as a natural rain is that the lightning breaks the bonds that normally keep nitrogen in the air coupled with itself. The only other ways to get nitrogen in the soil are legumes/cover crops and chemical fertilizers. We had a good well in Tonica with better hardness than Peru city water and still the garden prefers natural rain. Oh yeah, and natural rain is almost like distilled water, so it will dissolve nutrients in the soil better than any city or well water.
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Post by seaturtle43 in hostile forum on May 24, 2014 7:57:39 GMT -6
Freon, any word from the hospital? I'm thinking no as you would have said something?
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Post by seaturtle43 in hostile forum on May 26, 2014 7:14:17 GMT -6
bump
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Post by dumdave on May 30, 2014 8:30:48 GMT -6
bump for spam
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