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Nazis. Hippies. Rule-breakers. A police state. Weeds. Welcome to the war over the Long Beach Community Gardens.
PHOTO by JEFFREY R. GOULD
THROUGH THE FENCE
You can glimpse the Long Beach Community Gardens from the southbound lanes of the 605, after the Spring Street exit. Look to your rig ... Continue reading »
PHOTO by JEFFREY R. GOULD
THROUGH THE FENCE
You can glimpse the Long Beach Community Gardens from the southbound lanes of the 605, after the Spring Street exit. Look to your rig ... Continue reading »
10 months ago
NOT NO MORE!!
Geez. These people need to get a life....it's just VEGETABLES.
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Fortunately our community, Wrigley, is passionately proactive and we ARE creating a community garden. For more information or to sign up for a plot please contact us at info@wrigleygarden.org
Furthermore, our community participates in a food co-op, exchanging excess homegrown produce. For more information please visit us at: http://chalkboardco-op.blogspot.com/
Power to the peasful!
10 months ago
10 months ago
As a former member I can honestly say that they are that insane.
I hope the city will get involved and shake up that power stranglehold.
(and yes I remain anonymous for fear of them hunting me down :)
Kudos to Megan!
10 months ago
10 months ago
The problem over there is that they blatantly use "the rules" to F with certain people.
I dont know what the solution is at lbcga , but Im happy just having a container garden at home for now.
Best of luck....
10 months ago
10 months ago
Odds are significantly less than even money you have created an agenda item for their next board meeting on September 9th.
I admire your persistence and patience at the gate, great story.
10 months ago
10 months ago
1-This "evil" board was just re-elected by the gardners in June.
2- Weed rules help protect my garden and all others. I have gotten weed notices and pulled the weeds and moved on.
3-Thousands of pounds of fruit and vegetables donated by gardners are delivered each week to Long Beach charities by volunteer gardeners.
4-Publishing the racist comments of Ms. Weeks concerning our Asian American gardeners should be reviewed by the editor of this publication, I am offended and I am sure others feel the same way.
5-The words of two or three malcontents out of 300 hundred gardners should not be the focal point of this article and perhaps if Ms. Brescini has presented a more business like demeanor and volunteered her credentials her experience with board members would have been more favorable. I have been interviewed many times in my career but never by some one in flip flops etc.
10 months ago
I'm just saying that telling me the board was reelected doesn't neccessarliy tell me there is a lot of support for the board...just that an election was held.
10 months ago
10 months ago
Mrs. Former Gardener
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10 months ago
At the Wild Oats garden, we are currently in the process of rebuilding and have been fortunate that there are so many passionate gardeners willing to help. But it does take time as it is all on a volunteer basis and most of our gardeners have jobs, families, etc. We are using the rules and regulations and by-laws from several gardens, including LBCGA, to develop our own rules and by-laws.
Stop by the Wild Oats garden at 10th between Grand and Loma. Ask a gardener questions. More than likely you will find someone who will be more than happy to share the garden with you, weeds and all!
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I myself am on one of those boards, not a gardening one.
I am shocked that the board would behave in such a way. They should be ashamed.
Just because only three gardeners spoke up doesnt mean that they are the only unsatisfied. Others may be afraid of retribution and loosing their plot. Perhaps a gardener is living in their car and need this food?
I totally agree with Dave's comment and think the board need to take a hard look at themselves.
It is a crime to gate paradise and never let an outsider in.
We need more volunteers on these boards so this doesnt happen.
10 months ago
Those board members my be so entrenched that they have lost sight of realituy and other's points of view.
A group will never get anywhere being so rude to outsiders. You want support people not disgruntled voters!!
10 months ago
You don't understand, you cannot "get involved". At this place you keep your head down, and hope you don't incur the wrath of the board. When anyone questions the board, they make false weed violations, give them 3 violations in one envelope and have the Park Rangers forcibly remove undesirables. Just like the Park Ranger in the article who was made to remove an 80 year old woman. It's sick.
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Thank you so much for effectively communicating the absurdity that the Long Beach Community Gardens seems to have become!
10 months ago
I have seen people come after a surgery, illness or a death of a loved one come to the garden sometimes doing nothing but eventually they start to pull a few weeds or water.... before you know it they are planting. As the garden grows so does their spirit. We need to get a board that supports and fosters this kind of spirit!!!
10 months ago
I believe many of the rules are needed to maintain the gardens especially with the large number of garden plots, but come on.
We have so many community gardens popping up all over LB (including the Long Beach Organic groups sites) why not develop a City Wide Community Garden group??? There could be some networking and resaonable problem solving. Or why not just have LBO take it over?
10 months ago
10 months ago
We love the garden and want to stay for a long time but we need to stop feeling we walk on eggshells.
I brought our two kids for an hour or two to work with us at the garden to help connect them to the food they eat and found myself yelling at them because they picked a tiny piece of rosemary from our neighbors garden. The neighbors have given us bunches of flowers in the past and even extended the invite to pick on our own but because of the past interactions with the over reacting members , my husband and I found ourselves surprised by our tense responses. :(
10 months ago
10 months ago
It's easy for Steve to say "REMEMBER THE GARDEN BELONGS TO THE GARDENERS NOT THE BOARD" But they threw him off the board and revoked his garden plot. It belongs to the board, not the city or the gardeners.
Anyone who dares to complain about unfairness is targeted for removal. Especially if they are black or suspected of being gay. Several middle-aged men and women on the board are always gossiping about people's sexuality. It is so junior high.
And the last time I checked holding people to a higher standard of weeding because they are black, cambodian, possibly gay or outspoken is called "discrimination".
These control freaks on the board also instructed a woman to stop bringing her friend to the garden, even though the rules allow guests, because "retarded people are more likely to get hurt and are not covered on our insurance". First , that's not true. Second, this guest was not retarded. I think he had cerebal palsey or something that affected speech, but not retarded.
The board only allows approved people to run for board, so there is no way to get them out of power. You just have to stay off their radar and hope they have enough people to pick on and don't get around to you. The city should step in and require Parks and Rec manage the place. Or better yet, hire Megan Brescini to be the Garden Manager! I'd vote for that!
10 months ago
Thank you so much for effectively communicating the absurdity that the Long Beach Community Gardens seems to have become!
10 months ago
Thank you so much for effectively communicating the absurdity that the Long Beach Community Gardens seems to have become!
10 months ago
Thank you so much for effectively communicating the absurdity that the Long Beach Community Gardens seems to have become!
10 months ago
Hey Mike, you like to grow vegetables?
10 months ago
Hey Mike do you like to grow vegetables?
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10 months ago
First off, one man's weeds is another man's medicinal plants. So eat my dandelions!
Gardens should be happy places. They should invite, include, inspire.
We love our Wild Oats Organic Community Garden, our community spirit is growing, thriving and most importantly, we do have fun! Please do not drag us into this compost pile. We are not striving for perfection, only a willingness to enjoy the good earth, to learn more about sustainable living practices and to give nature a chance in your life. The first and third Saturdays, the peeps of the LBC are welcomed to stop by and see great energy at work, as we farm and work the land, and do join in on our potluck!
All gardens, everywhere, should live by this credo: "When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden." Gardens should be a place you go to be at peace, and find peace. It's what nature intended.
We plant on ... because the more we plant, the more we grow!
9 months ago
Anyone who wants to grow her own veggies for personal consumption can just use his own backyard or use gardening containers like my apartment-dwelling neighbors. Or just buy your produce at the supermarket where you'll have to go for all your other supplies anyway.
The real on-going tragedy is at the nearby animal shelter, not in the cabbage patch....
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7 months ago
Yes, gardening is fun and theraputic, but these women are WEIRD!!!!
10 months ago
Furthermore, our community participates in a food co-op, exchanging excess homegrown produce. For more information please visit us at: http://chalkboardco-op.blogspot.com/
Fortunately our community, Wrigley, is passionately proactive and we ARE creating a community garden. For more information or to sign up for a plot please contact us at info@wrigleygarden.org
Power to the peasful!