Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: community gardening.

[Sharon Miller (slmiller.325]

We have a good size organic community garden that is tended by volunteers
in the community. Three times a year there are community-wide work parties
and a lot of garden work (winter clean up, spreading compost, etc.) gets
done at this time as well. We have a small greenhouse to start seeds. Team
members are expected to spend 3 hrs a month in the garden from March-Sept,
although the team leader (myself) probably spends more like 20 hrs/week
during growing season. Produce is sold to the community and the money goes
back into purchasing seeds and garden supplies for the following year. We
grow a wide variety of produce and flowers. Some community members
regularly purchase garden produce, others rarely or never. We try to use
our produce for community meals when it's available as well.

Sharon (Sharingwood, Snohomish, WA)

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:15 AM Maraiah (Lynn) Nadeau <welcome [at] olympus.net>
wrote:

> 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
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Sharon L. Miller