From Place Based Grass Roots Groups Political Action Web

Here you will find a list of notes taken during Casa Grande Community Garden meetings.

Contents 1 March 12, 2006 1.1 Organization 1.2 What to do in tilled space? 1.3 Do garden in a different space? 1.4 Actions for the coming week 2 March 5, 2006 2.1 Water 2.1.1 Geting water 2.1.2 Quality 2.2 Space 2.3 Preping Soil 2.4 Kinds of Gardens 2.5 Communications 2.6 Garden Compliments 2.7 Needs 2.8 Funding

[edit] March 12, 2006

[edit] Organization

• Assure that the garden doesn't become dominated by any single individual.
• Assure that there be a horizontal form of organization and not hierarchical.
• Transparency
• Use chaulk-board or informational space to list ideas that may be taken up by anyone who so wishes.

[edit] What to do in tilled space?

• Make Pretty
• Medicinal plants. Jess has other seeds.
• Permaculture
• Trees
• figs
• Skillshares related to ongoing gardening activities
• Experiment with sample vegetables of the kind that we think may not grow so well due to lack of plentiful sunlight (tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers).

[edit] Do garden in a different space?

• Find out about alternatives
• Use maps
• Garden in median divides of 15-501 by-pass
• Use municipality gov. either to help get water to identified space or to designate gardening specific space.

[edit] Actions for the coming week

• Think about and ask around for alternative space
• Thursday, March 16, 2006

Meet @ The ReCYCLEry 3 pm to get more manure. Ideally get older, non-antibiotic manure from alternative place.

• Saturday, March 18, 2006

Meet @ 11 a.m. @ the The ReCYCLEry with information/maps of places within biking distance that we can scope out for gardening.

[edit] March 5, 2006

[edit] Water

[edit] Geting water

• Using a bicycle pump to pump water into custern
• Making a dam

[edit] Quality

• Ask OWASA about quality: Coliform?, heavy metals, etc.. David Delvechio could ask friends that he knows in OWASA
• Creek is a Haw River tributary. Chris knows Earth First Person who could give us testing kit or test it himself.

[edit] Space

Opening more space will be contingent on the energy both human and solar.

[edit] Preping Soil

• Till
• Manure
• Rock Powder
• Egg shell compost
• Compost from Weaver Street?
• Open Eye coffee grinds

[edit] Kinds of Gardens

• Summer Garden (tomatoes, okra, peppers, cucumbers)
• Spring Garden (potatoes)

[edit] Communications

• Chalk Board
• Binder
• Wiki
• Info Board
• Phone Tree

[edit] Garden Compliments

• Chickens
• Bees
• Shitaki

[edit] Needs

• Leaves
• Tools: Shovels, Rakes

[edit] Funding

Institutions like funding owned properties