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Gardening in town is how I became familiar with Square Foot Gardening. Many years ago, our house burned, and we found ourselves in a house on a small corner lot. The owners wouldn't give us permission to put a garden in the back, but they did let us put in "flowerbeds". So the beds in the front of the house had flowers, and down the side was a 3' x 35' garden. It still amazes me how much food we got out of there! And the feedback from neighbors was all positive----noticed a few more people growing that way before we moved.

Methinks this calls for some guerilla gardening. ninja

Start planting things in the middle of the night! I believe people have the right to lay claim to land that is unused. It's a shame we're all so socialized into fearing our own government instead of using it to better ourselves.

I've seen recipes before on how to make clay seed balls. There's an empty lot across the street main street near me what would be good for some guerrilla gardening. ninja

Every time I pass an empty lot I think about this. I'm starting my own garden in the spring. I've never done much gardening before, so hopefully everything doesn't die... xd

...guerilla gardening? Hm.... cool pirate

Ooh boy, this reminds me of something a friend of my mother told me about a few years ago..

The high school in her town started their own garden, and the special education kids could elect to take care of it as their P.E. credit for the school instead of having to put up with the "normal" kids making fun of them, and then the rest of the school could volunteer to help for community service hours and it turned into this big socializing project and they ended up having like one day a week where the lunchroom used food produced in the garden for lunch.. I was really excited when she told me about it but my school seriously resisted my attempts to start one here, *sigh*.

On About.com's home and gardening section I've seen plans for patio gardens whee two or three vegetable plants were planted in the same pot (like tomatoes, beans, and cucumbers or a cornstalk, beans, and squash) and helped each other as they grew.. It looked really great to me, but I don't know if the dorms I'm living in next year will allow me to have plants.. sweatdrop

Huh, well ain't this funny, I'm actually the chair of the Local Agriculture committee for this university organization I'm with.
I'm still at a lack of words to describe what exactly I'm supposed to do, I know that promoting community gardens and farmers markets is in the job description, but there's a lot more than that.

Unfortunately, the organization president takes a lot of the work for me, he's greatly more interested in the subject than I am.
But still, I have my share of action.

Gonna be exciting this year, we're gonna try and set up an organic farm on-campus, something to feed the community food banks and the university itself.

I really wish more communities would open up to the idea of a community garden, the people I connected with the most were the ones I gardened with, the idea of not having that little garden to cling to would absolutely break my heart.

We used to have a community garden here in Regina. It was huge, But the city sold the land to apparently build appartments there ... though I haven't sen anything being built there yet. I think there is a new community garden, but I have no idea where it is.