Organic Pest Control

 Alyssum lures bugs AWAY

SLUG - How Cute/Gross is That!?

Sacramento League of Urban Gardeners:  working to bring equality through access to healthy foods.   That's thinking big picture!  In Sacramento News and Review, 4/29/10  Local Eats, Low Incomes

Great History of Sacramento Garden, Food and Community

Great Article by Bill Maynard, in Edible Sacramento, Spring 2010 on Sacramento's support of Garden, Food and Community.  Bill is also the local contact for ACGA - American Community Gardening Association, check out their Annual Conference in Atlanta next month.

Sacramento's Own Oak Park Crop Swap

Story about Crop Swaps in the News and Review

Oak Park's Crop Swap Info.  Want o to do one in YOUR neighborhood?

Still Time for Am. Community Gardener Annual Meeting!

Plan now to attend the 2010 31st Annual Conference of the ACGA, ‘A Holistic Approach To Building Sustainable and Healthy Communities Through Gardening: The Choice Is Yours.‘ Read more about the conference.

Crop Swap

A Sacramento writer discusses Crop Swap(s)

"Sponsored" Plantings - Sustaining the Community

One of the Artists-in-Residence this season shared with me some thoughts about perpetuating the bounty of the garden beyond this year and beyond that. Sounds good to me, here's the thought:

He wants to "sponsor" the planting of 10 strawberry plants and the reasonable cost of their annual care -- about $50 -- plants that will produce for familes to come; in exchange for 10 baskets of strawberries as his sustenence-investment "interest". Something between Heifer International and carbon credits!

I love the idea of planting the seeds and food of the future, and the sense of community our shared "investment" will drive. And, on a less grand scale, I like it that you folks, to some degree, could focus in on foods you want but can't grow/get and I'd get to try some thing I wouldn't already have tried.

Let me know what your interested in seeing planted; on your behalf, for many.