Collectivism in "community gardens"

[Harmon Seaver]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:55:06PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:04:50PM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >     Hmm, I've never seen that sort of a problem with community gardens
> > anywhere. The vast majority of the people work pretty hard on their plots.
> 
> >From my window where I'm typing this, I can see (or could see if it
> were light out) one of Adams Morgans' once-lauded "community gardens."
> It might have been a big deal in the 1970s, but now it's just a rocky
> slope with a few scraggly corn stalks growing on it. I've never seen a
> gardener actually garden there in the seven years I've lived in the 
> neighborhood.
> 

   Sounds like you live in one of those neighborhoods which underwent
gentrification, or otherwise got yuppiefied, and the new residents are of the
sort who don't get their hands dirty, eh? Or at least not with real dirt.


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