Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Social gardening

[Harry Pasternak (Harry_Pasternak]

David

Thanks for the good news. The research shows that gardening is one of many
"normal" ways  people use to "present themselves" in neighborhoods, in order
to socially network. As soon as people start to "present themselves" ---It
breaks the barrier/cycle of "nothing happens because nothing happens".

People can "present themselves" in many ways from gardening to clearing
snow--- the design issue is: can the "presenter" be easily seen by lots of
other people, at any time, during daylight hours?

Harry Pasternak
Thousand Islands Institute