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| ivmeer |
Posted - Dec 06 2007 : 08:09:17 AM
So I'm from Chicago. There's not much farming here, but I've been thinking about contacting the city to lend some land for a community food farm to donate veggies to volunteers and the underprivileged. I'm going to start looking at plots in neighborhoods where residential buildings have been torn down and land has been left vacant. If we can find a particularly empty block, I bet we could scrape together an acre or two (that's a lot of land in a city, and you could grow a lot of food on that land!)
I think I've got the connections to make this happen, but I would need the help of lots of volunteers to get it started. I want to make some sort of general announcement over this forum to ask other farmgirls to join me, but I don't know the proper way to do this within the board's terms and conditions. I'm mostly active on the kitchen board, but this is a gardening thing (I have a ton to learn about gardening, and I'd love any advice).
Short of spamming/posting the same message on every board, or sifting through the profiles and sending an e-mail to all Chicago farmgirls, what's the best way to do this? |
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| Carol |
Posted - Dec 06 2007 : 11:02:07 AM
Hi Amanda.
We'd rather keep multiple posts to two at the most - the forum is growing by leaps and bounds, and if people start posting in multiple places, it really won't be able to handle it.
Thanks!
Carol
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, red wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming 'WOO HOO, what a ride!'"
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| ivmeer |
Posted - Dec 06 2007 : 10:41:01 AM
May I also please post it on the kitchen forum? That's the one I'm most active on, and I think i'd be likely to find more Chicagoans on that forum than on others. |
| Carol |
Posted - Dec 06 2007 : 09:34:24 AM
Hi Amanda.
While we don't like to have the same message posted on lots of forums, this one seems appropriate to post on both the "A Farm of My Own" and "Garden Gate" forums. If you just put something in the subject line like "Calling all Chicago Farmgirls" or a "Wanted: Gardeners in Chicago" kind of subject line, I'll bet you'd get some interest. Sounds like a great project! Good luck!
Carol
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, red wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming 'WOO HOO, what a ride!'"
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