The term "community garden" can mean many things to many people. Most community gardens have the following four basics: 1. land, 2. gardeners, 3. plants, and 4. A set of rules or organizing bylaws that define the purpose and governing principles of the garden.
At OSU Unger Farm, we have a set of rules which we distributed to the member gardeners at the beginning of the garden year, and will be published here "soon".
A community garden is a different concept than a "public garden", which may be privately maintained, but open to the public for walking through and enjoying. The community garden section of Unger Farm is maintained by indivdual gardeners who have a registered plot.
The purpose of the community garden at OSU Unger Farms is primarily educational and social. Each registered gardener invests their fee, their own seeds and labor to maintain a small plot of land throughout the gardening season. There are opportunities for individual gardeners to share the produce with the general public through community agencies, however, it is up to each gardener to determine whether or not to elect this sharing.
This is the first year for community gardening at OSU Unger Farm. Suggestions and comments are welcomed.
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We here at the community gardens are still having trouble with thievery!! Just yesterday (Aug.28) we lost a large head of cabbage I was going to harvest soon to make cole slaw for a family gathering coming up. Last night there were more people tramping through my garden.(I
know because of the footprints in the MUD) The day before yesterday we saw people in our garden plot looking at things. We did confront them and she said she had a plot in the gardens. My thought is "if they were comm. gardeners, they should have known the rules to STAY OUT of others plots". Did everyone attend those MANDATORY MTGS??? We did and I reread the rules regulary. I am dissapointed with those that think "what's theirs is theirs and what's mine is theirs also" !! People are RUDE!!!!
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