Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: community gardening.

[Maraiah (Lynn) Nadeau (welcome]

RoseWind Cohousing, long established in Port Townsend WA

We started with individual plots, but transitioned to a community approach. 
Annual food crops are handled like an in-house CSA. Monthly garden dues pay a 
garden manager; Monday mornings and Thursday afternoons are volunteer work 
parties. We grow greens, peas, variious beans, carrots, turnips, beets, 
parsnips, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, leeks, corn, summer and winter squash, 
potatoes. Also dahlias, marigolds, zinnias, sunflowers.
A few members choose to tend personal plots in the community-garden area.

Perennial food crops belong to everyone— raspberries, strawberries, fruit 
trees, rhubarb, artichokes, asparagus— and are tended by volunteers. 

Maraiah Lynn Nadeau