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Check out our website: http://ashbycommunitygarden.webs.com
Located between San Pablo and Sacramento in Berkeley, California
Check out our website: http://ashbycommunitygarden.webs.com
Gardeners
Come Garden with Us!
We'll be in the garden for work parties the first Saturday or Sunday of the month through October from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Next work days: August 6, September 4, October 1st, 2011. Come join us to improve the garden and learn. Everyone welcome.
The Ashby Community Gardeners would like to invite you to share your vision for this neighborhood garden.
We're here to grow our own food and cut out the middle man; we are independent of any city program and run on a volunteer basis only.
We plan to offer classes on various aspects of gardening or cooking. Check in with us on this soon.
If you'd like to get on the waitlist for a plot, email Ellen at edoudna@yahoo.com with Ashby waitlist as the subject.
To all garden followers: I saw Sarah last week for the first time in prison .We are planning an imaginary garden,a dreamed up place. I have the vegetables and she has the flowers. so, I begin with Milpa,the Three Sisters. In our garden, the soil is deep and rich and brown and loamy,years of gardeners have added nutritious stuffs to it. I sit and just dig my hands in it; its warmth,its life,its smell. It's good enough to eat. It's like holding life in your hands. It's what we all become. I think about Sarah years ago at an ecology camp in the southern california desert singing a song about how dirt made her lunch,her dinner and her brunch. I think about her planting a garden in the front yard of her West Oakland apt with friends helping doing double digging method. So i begin,I want the corn to grow in a half moon shape,a semi-circle,no straight rows,with 12 stalks in the far arc then 10 ,then 8 in the front.. It will be Zapatista corn from Chiapas,ancient corn.. I build mounds and flatten the tops like minature mesas with a kind of hollow on the top. two or three corn kernels go there..I use my hands so i can feel the dirt and see the seeds disappear into the earth.. On the sides of the mounds, i plant beans,some scarlett runners and some regular snap beans and french beans,four seeds around each corn and these will grow and twirl around the corn stalks and be held up by them.. On the ground around the stalks I plant squash;different kinds,zucchini,summer and blossom squash.. these cover the ground around the corn,keep it moist and no room for weeds. In weeks, the Three Sisters grow up together,all caretaking each other, a food jungle,yielding,yielding. and we will eat squash fritters,and zucchini bread and bean salad and corn,corn, corn.. the sun warms my back and i scoop up rainwater from a barrel and give each seed its first drink..they staart to grow--free...
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