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Have any of you ever had or worked in a community garden? How did it go? Were there rules, informal agreements, fees? How were labor and expenses shared? What were the problems or conflicts?
If you were to have one, what would you do? How would you organize the participants?
Last year I bought a house that has the perfect location for a large vegetable garden. I don't have the time or energy to do it for myself. I have a tiny one up close to the house, for now.
Recently a couple of good friends expressed an interest in creating a vegetable garden in this space. I'm thinking we should build a series of narrow rectangular raised beds and each have our own section.
I'm looking for advice on how to do this successfully so that we can grow vegetables, enjoy our time together, and preserve and enhance our friendships.
Recently a couple of good friends expressed an interest in creating a vegetable garden in this space. I'm thinking we should build a series of narrow rectangular raised beds and each have our own section.
I'm looking for advice on how to do this successfully so that we can grow vegetables, enjoy our time together, and preserve and enhance our friendships.
Cheap and easy, square foot gardening. 4' x 4'. Each one could build one or two and have plenty of dirt without tilling or even disturbing the existing soil.
We will be building larger beds of this type. Probably 10' x 5' arranged on a grid. I've done this many times, but never with people other than my significant other.
I'm more interested in the logistics of the social/communal/shared aspects of this kind of gardening.
In the past, the few community garden projects I've observed were organized and run by people who didn't have their heads screwed on well. It was all ideas and few long-term solutions.
I love the grid pattern with the ease of not tilling. I have never done the community garden thing, but I hope it works for you. I think just the idea of sharing whatever you grow, with someone who is growing other things is a great idea. lots of variety without as much work.
One of the people who wants to participate is coming over sometime this week so we work on where we want to put the beds. Essentially we'll do a site plan. There's a lot of space and I'd like for the vegetable garden part of the yard to be well integrated into the rest of the yard.
Some of the group have not done much gardening at all. Others are fairly experienced.
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I'd just be worried about having somebody come along and taking my veggies. We had a community style garden co op a few years back. People paid a fee for the garden space and planted their own veggies. It folded for lack of profit and participation. It sounded like a good enough idea, but the area was extremely big on farming and people have gardens already. I think it could have worked in a more urban setting. Just tear down a brown site or a block of crumbling rowhouses and put in a garden.
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