<html><head><base href="x-msg://13/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Can we find out exactly WHERE these women want to make a garden? Are we talking about getting a load of topsoil and compost? How many square feet? If it is really small, I'd be willing to help.<br><div><div>On May 12, 2011, at 10:48 PM, Paula Jenson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">i am forwarding this to any of you who may be interested. Let me know as it is already getting late, and at this point, I am pretty busy, but with help could participate.<br>paula<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: Urban Crop Circle & gardening help<br>Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:27:54 -0700<br>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:robind@solid-ground.org">robind@solid-ground.org</a><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pjjenson1@hotmail.com">pjjenson1@hotmail.com</a><br><br><div class="ecxSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Hi Paula –</span></font></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I work at Lettuce Link over at Solid Ground, and earlier this week while distributing vegetable seeds to clients at the Ballard Food Bank, and I talked to a couple women who were interested in having some help setting up a garden at their low-income apartment building in lower Ballard (or possibly Fremont – I’m not quite sure). There are a lot of primarily homebound residents living in the apartments, and the women seemed really excited about having a small garden on-site (currently there is a large grass area in the backyard). </span></font></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I think they would be willing to help, but need someone with some more knowledge to get them started – we could provide them with seeds & starts (but not dirt or building supplies). Is this a volunteer project that some Sustainable Ballard folks might be interested in taking on? Or if not, do you have any people/organizations you could point me in the direction of?</span></font></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Thanks! </span></font></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Robin DeCook</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Lettuce Link Program Assistant</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Solid Ground</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Building Community to End Poverty</span></font></i></em><br>1501 N. 45th St. Seattle, WA 98103</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">(206) 694-6746 x3</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><a target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">http://www.solid-ground.org/Programs/Nutrition/Lettuce</span></font></a> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><a target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">http://lettucelink.blogspot.com/</span></font></a><br></span></font><br><em><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Lettuce Link creates access to fresh, nutritious and organic produce, seeds, and gardening information for low-income families in Seattle and builds awareness about food security and sustainable food production.</span></font></i></em></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> </span></font></p></div>_______________________________________________<br>UrbanCropCircle mailing list<br><a href="mailto:UrbanCropCircle@lists.sustainableballard.org">UrbanCropCircle@lists.sustainableballard.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sustainableballard.org/listinfo.cgi/urbancropcircle-sustainableballard.org">http://lists.sustainableballard.org/listinfo.cgi/urbancropcircle-sustainableballard.org</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>