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Comment by Les Squires on March 2, 2009 at 12:56pm

I love the way people are naming their gardens -- very clever! And actually showing a snapshot of their work. Beautiful!

Comment by Zev Paiss on March 2, 2009 at 6:54am

Micha - Your work sounds awesome and extremely important! Please go to this link and you can register your garden.

Peace and Blessings... Zev

Comment by Michaela Maestas on March 2, 2009 at 5:55am

ok, where do I put my Garden? on which page , site, group?

I have a Urban/ Suburban Garden. In fact I run an alternative daycare out of my home. I teach kids how to garden and help them have a true relationship with nature. These are urban kids that need some healing around the issues of food, nature and self.
love Micha ( me-sha)
185 Woodbury rd.
Woodbury Daycare and Kids Gardens
Burlington Vermont 05408
www.woodburydaycarevpweb.com

Comment by Zev Paiss on February 23, 2009 at 11:55pm

I spoke to Les Squires at length and this was part of his suggestion since we are not registering members but Gardens.

Comment by Zev Paiss on February 23, 2009 at 11:54pm

I needed to separate this from Transition. So yes another page was required.

Comment by Sandi Brockway on February 23, 2009 at 10:48pm

What is this? Could not have the same thing been done here? Did this really require another ning site?

http://onemilliongardens.ning.com/

I just made a suggestion and examination of several more free hosted websites with programs online. I posted it the other day here. Not sure, they might have been more suitable for tracking such large numbers. If the US ning site is not capable for tracking, why would another ning site be more capable? Can someone explain that to me? If the US site is not housing nationwide campaigns, then what does it do? how is this new site holding more than my permaculture groups for instance?

I guess would like to see more trimming, consolidation, and support here on the US site, not more is better, but less with more quality, collaboration, and ease of use.

Comment by Fran Rew on February 23, 2009 at 2:31pm

I'm looking forward to volunteering to schedule collaborative community outreach events with my TopicTalkWalks.com (TTW) group, through our Meetup.com registration site. I believe that gardens are an essential part of Community Currency. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to network with the wisdom of people like Ellen Rosenthal for ways to compensate for a less than perfect green thumb.

Thanks to Coco Gordon of Transition Lyons, TTW has already created a collaborative 3-part event (walk/potluck/public forum) for this Friday, February 27, 2009. Thank you Zev Paiss, for organizing this group, and this group's inspirational goal of One Million Gardens!

Comment by Zev Paiss on February 22, 2009 at 7:37pm

Ken,

This is great news. If we can get the attention of the USDA then we might be able to add them to our list of "supporters." It sure makes sense!

Zev

Comment by Colin Boggess on February 22, 2009 at 3:49am

brilliant! i love this idea of combining a social network with a garden database!

how bout a skills/skill share database eventually as well?! and perhaps databases for sharing tools and other resources too (bikes/transportation, seeds, etc)?!

there's a fella named Randy White who's already experimenting with this kind of thing, which he calls "community resilience technology". check out his website:

http://www.brightneighbor.com

he's started a group here on TransitionUS.ning called "Bright Neighbors", which could theoretically be used as a platform for cross+pollinating his Bright Neighbor "community resilience technology" with the Transition US social network.

just a thought...?

Comment by Sandi Brockway on February 20, 2009 at 6:21pm

Janet, perhaps keeping it more symbolic is better. But 1000 on regional level is more doable. Why do not we collect the 1000 clusters, instead of the individual garden conversions? then we only need 1000 1000s

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