On 6/16/2014 12:23 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> It's not true that a piece of ground is always available. I don't think
> that we have any community gardens here. There is this one in Bothell:
>
> http://www.bothell-reporter.com/community/41000909.html
>
> That's a ways away from where I live and parking can be a nightmare.
> Plus in our climate, gardens don't always work. I don't have room in my
> yard for a garden, nor is it really sunny enough. I did try earth boxes
> before. They did well one year. Were not good at all the next several
> so I gave up.

Pretty much my point, Julie.

I could have a garden if I wanted to. I'd have to pay the powers that
be a couple hundred more a month for a small plot behind The Cannery*.
My neighbor loves gardening, so she and a friend split the cost of a
plot one year but she said it was too much of a hassle having to drive
over there, carrying all the tools plus hoses for watering. And then
get charged for water

Sorry, I'm not paying to plant crops when I can buy them at the farm
stands and support actual farmers. And there's always the grocery store.

*The Cannery is actually the library on Dataw. Originally it was
intended for people to use to wash and prep vegetables in the big steel
sink, presumeably to get them ready for canning when they got them home.
The "cannery" doesn't have facilities for actual canning, just a small
prep area.

Over time it turned into a library. They installed shelving and people
(including me) donate books. It's where I go to get my books because
the actual public library is about 15 miles away. Don't have to worry
about checking books in and out and being fined for not returning them
within an allotted time frame..

This is one thing Dataw can't charge for. But last year (one) of the
volunteers who reshelves the books (I guess she considers herself to be
a librarian) tried to tell people what types of books they should and
shouldn't be donating. Silly really. She put up a chalk board stating
you could only donate new or recent fiction. No non-fiction books. No
books about history. No old books.

You can imagine my reaction. I grabbed a copy of Farhenheit 451 and
propped it up next to the chalk board. A couple of other copies of that
book appeared there shortly afterwards. Sorry, but you narrow-minded
people can't tell us what to read or what books we can donate. The
chalk board with the "rules" is no longer there.

Jill