community gardens

[Tyler Durden]

"Yup.  Barbed wire definitely spruces up a community..... "

I guess you've never been to Brooklyn Neighborhoods such as Red Hook or East 
New York...

-TD







>From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com>
>To: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina at hotmail.com>
>CC: cypherpunks at minder.net
>Subject: Re: community gardens
>Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:33:01 -0700
>
>
>>Tim May wrote...
>>"I said I saw the same thing in Berkeley and Santa Cruz. Both are said
>>to be "progressive" communities, but in both places the so-called
>>community garden areas are essentially for hoboes and deadbeats to scratch 
>>at."
>
>Minor technical correction - hoboes are migrant workers,
>as opposed to tramps, who are migrant non-workers,
>or bums, who are non-migrant non-workers,
>and hoboes aren't likely to be hanging out in that kind of area,
>at least during the times of year there's active gardening going on,
>because that's when they're most likely to be working on farms.
>That may be different down in Watsonville, where there's a lot of
>railroad connectivity and a lot of farms, but up in Santa Cruz and
>certainly up in Berkeley, it's much more likely to just be bums.
>
>>At 10:21 AM 05/12/2003 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>>In NYC the phenomenon is entirely different. First of all, the gardens are 
>>almost always gated and barbwired. For two, its primarily the non-drugged 
>>members of a community that are working the garden, and a prime reason for 
>>creating the garden is to pretty up and otherwise crappy looking block. 
>>The flowers and produce of the garden are almost tertiary.
>
>Yup.  Barbed wire definitely spruces up a community.....
>

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