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This is a particularly

Verified Atheist — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:28:23 +0000

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This is a particularly damning statement on those politicians. The only rays of hope I see are (a) that there is blowback, and (b) that it results in the garden facilities being restored.

We-e-e-llll; I'll say most

we are stardust — Wed, 11 May 2011 02:15:31 +0000

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We-e-e-llll; I'll say most people appreciated it, I think, though few knew I worked it. There were plenty of times it was sabotaged. I used to waster time trying to figure it out, which is goofy as all giddy-up, really. Thought a few times of walking away from it, but I do have this stubborn streak, and never did know when to get in outta the rain. ;o)

Not to sound like a bigot, but I wish I had a Zulu friend. And a Masai friend.

Plants do indeed keep people

Watt Childress — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:42:59 +0000

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Plants do indeed keep people healthy. I suspect few people understood the depth of that truth more than Dr. George Washington Carver.

Goodness gracious. Your

Watt Childress — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:41:00 +0000

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Goodness gracious. Your parallel experience with the local town park offers a very sad statement about the status of community. So sorry. Bless you for describing it here a little. Surely there are many in the town who remember your efforts, even if others didn't show respect for them.

Carver Park was mostly educational, as I understand it, and the raised beds are still there. Tools and mulch are gone, and the jury is out on who is going to oversee the operations. But Sizwe is a remarkable man, and I hope there will be a place in Nashville to resurrect his efforts.

"Community-dozing" is a very good expression. Thank you, master wordsmith.

We have a small garden plot

Richard Day — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:11:16 +0000

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We have a small garden plot in a nearby park.

Flowers of all kinds are seriously tended to.

People have a lot joy working with these plants.

Some look 70-80 years of age.

A Communal plot with vegetables and such would be better.

You know pets keep people healthy. So do plants.

the end

Lame.

kgb999 — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:09:46 +0000

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Lame.

What a kick in the teeth to

we are stardust — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:50:54 +0000

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What a kick in the teeth to all those gardeners! Think of the food that won't be grown and shared. And the spirits and well...community that will be broken. Oddly, the garden I built (well, ressurrected, really) in the local town park was bulldozed to change the design of the park. No notice to me, either. I would have dug up the perennials and given them away or brought them home. I never even asked what happened to all the moss rocks i had gotten in the mountains to face the aspen berm I'd built. It was dislocating and really frustrating, but at leastt it was only flowers, not food.

Will it survive without the greenhouse and sheds, Watt?

We keep talking about one of the baby steps that will help lead us to some solutions for what we're now facing is community-building. Hard to hear about community-dozing.

Nice idea, sad the idiots

Desider — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:58:39 +0000

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Nice idea, sad the idiots felt a need to shut it down. If it had had a concessions stand they might have felt obliged to keep it open....