So Fun…So Inspired!

There we were, Saturday February 21, 2009, 11:30 AM, in New York Pizza, the 29 of us. There we were casting vision, dreaming child-like thoughts (sugar-plum dreams), what it would mean for people like us to get together around a community garden. What a time we had!

If only we could snap our fingers and all those sugar-plum ideas were NOW and a reality. But they will. I think all of us sense that if that should happen, without all the planning, preparation and hard work, it would be accomplishment without community. More of a commodity, something transferred vs. beauty and common interest stuff that ties good people with good cheer – TOGETHER.

So we refuse to snap our fingers. Instead we choose to get our palms blistered with hard work, bumping into each other, shoulder to shoulder – building something that will be a joy to us AND our neighbors.

But for now: no fingers, no blisters, just green thumbs. Click on the first picture below. If you squint and strain your eyes hard enough, you will see that ALL of us have something in common. Our green thumbs. Hey!! What a concept...“Green-Thumbers”


Keep clicking to enlarge each picture.



Who won the Oscar for their "hamming" performance below?






To recount some of our dreams and details for this new life together in OUR GARDEN, here they be:

• We will be organic
• We will co-learn together and teach each other
• We will share as much as we possibly can (tools, seeds, etc.)
• We will have fun
• We will not only grow our own veggie plots
• We will grow at least a squash and a corn communal plot for all
• We will have plot sizes like 4X4’, 10X20’ and 10X10’, and our communal plots
• We will plan and plant the rest of the garden to be a thing of beauty
• We train ourselves and encourage our community join in on the learning
• We will draw the youth into this venture
• We will assist those elderly or handicapped to join in with us
• We will take field trips to Hovander together
• We will thank Sonlight church for the use of their land
• We will just hang out in OUR GARDEN and talk, sing, dream more and have a great time!
• We got to get to work and make all this happen.
• Did I miss anything? Surely I did!

So what are the next steps?

Ten of us said we’d work as a short-term organizing team. This so we can pull together more detail plans, logistics and resources to get things off the ground. Look for me to call upon this group to “take things up a notch!” (who said that?!)…baam!

Watch for more postings for calls to action or being informed of what’s happening.

A personal note: After we all separated and went our own ways, I went home, poured a homemade stout in a glass, went out into my greenhouse at home (it was so nice a warm), sat on a bucket...and buzzed with the sense: "I want to celebrate"! No the beer caused not the buzz. It was thoroughly a moment of: I wanted to just shout for joy that all these good people are new friends of mine! They have this desire to make our little world in our little town a tad bit better-together. This is so good. Thank you my new and dear friends!

Jeff

PS: The one who really figured out the "Speeking...Spelling" thing, well you get the golden "ha-ha" star for the day!