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PaulW
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Posted: Jan 8th, 2006 10:29 pm |
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| I am not sure about the meeting(s) on 1/12. I have heard that there is a Parks and Recs meeting, as well as a Town Council meeting due to the recent resignations of the Town Planner and the Town's Attorney.
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Jan 8th, 2006 11:18 pm |
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| Paul- Both meetings are on for that night. You might call Sue Beeson/Chairperson and ask to present at Parks your proposal. She is in the phone book on Summerfield RD. under Jimmy Beeson I think.
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Jan 9th, 2006 12:02 am |
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| PaulW I gave you the wrong info. Sue is James Beeson on Meaderis Rd.
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Posted: Jan 9th, 2006 12:34 pm |
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Acook and PaulW,
I'm catching up on my reading. Just wanted to welcome you both to the forum! Thanks so much for your excellent input. Please keep it coming!
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Steve Adkins
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 12:33 am |
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PaulW wrote:
You would also want to go to this link for your own habitat: http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/createhabitat.cfm
PaulW.........what a wonderful suggestion. I had no idea this existed. We have a wooded lot, we have had a tremendous amount of enjoyment watching squirrels, frogs, deer, owl, guineas, and yes even snakes on the property, I will seriously consider registering for this certification. Thank You.
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 11:48 am |
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| My yard has now been certified as a wildlife backyard habitat. Thanks PaulW for this information. I can't wait to receive my certificate and other in the mail.
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 01:26 pm |
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| How about a community garden. Everyone could get together and grow food and give the bounty to a food bank or create one in your community. This would be a great way to teach the kids that food doesn't grow on the grocery store shelves and sharing with those less fortunate. It would also show them what can be done when people work together(this could also work for certain grownups).
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 01:36 pm |
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ff12... I'm liking you more and more every day!
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Lacka
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 02:42 pm |
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| ff12, I like that idea. I do think that many would benefit. A food bank would be great. I know a lot of times we seem to look at Greensboro or the Triad when groups want to help out, I think we might have needs in our own little Tri Town Tri Town area.
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 03:05 pm |
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Congratulations Skiddles! Our yard was certified about a year ago and we've learned so much since that time. We keep adding to and refining the area.
It's funny how your perspective changes. When we first moved onto the property one of our first yardwork tasks was to haul off the woodpile that the former owners had collected over the years. Now we find ourselves working to add brushpiles to the yard.
I would love to work towards Summerfield's certification as a Backyard Habitat Community. Should I start a new thread to see who else might be interested?
ff12- I think a community garden is an excellent idea. I work at the Greensboro Montessori School on Horse Pen Creek Road. We have permaculture gardens throughout the campus. All of our students contribute to our gardens...infant through 8th graders! They plan, plant and tend them. It's a wonderful experience.
One of my favorite memories is of going into the garden to find the tops of the asparagus plants missing. I couldn't figure out what could have happened to cause the top three or four inches of a four foot tall plant to disappear. The next day I noticed one of the 8th grade boys casually walking by an asparagus plant, bending down and chomping off its little green shoot. Several other students were grazing in the same manner. It was a hilarious sight.
You are correct in saying that "[it] would be a great way to teach the kids that food doesn't grow on the grocery store shelves" and a community food bank is a wonderful way to give back to the people in our neck-of-the-woods!
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 04:30 pm |
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| Kids eating asparagus?????
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 04:38 pm |
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Mine eat it like candy Lacka. Go figure... wouldn't touch it myself.
I think the food pantry is a wonderful idea! I know my mother-in-law's church on the other side of GSO has an ongoing one that is frequently used.
Do any of our area churches do this?
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 04:46 pm |
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Crackah, I cannot believe that your kids eat asparagus. I love it myself and eat it several times a week, I have to subsitute something else for them. YUK they say. I have even tried making a TeePee or a forest of trees out of the stuff and they just gag. I know I know Steve, give me the off topic sign.
Back to the topic, does anybody know how a community garden runs. This really sounds interesting.
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 05:20 pm |
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| Crackah, There are about a dozen churches that are part of Good Samaritan Ministries in Stokesdale. They have a pantry program as well as do special things for families around the holidays. They are the ones who sponsor the "Angel tree" in Stokesdale. There may be similar programs in Summerfield and Oak Ridge, I don't know.
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Posted: Jan 11th, 2006 06:11 pm |
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| There are also local churches who plant crops to be given to programs that feed people. Some of these are affiliated with the Society of St. Andrew, a gleaning program specifically set up to harvest extra crops, and some just do their own harvesting and share locally. I've written about a couple of these programs in the paper. One was organized by a family and the other was by a small church outside Stokesdale. As macca said, there may be other churches in our area who do this same thing. I don't know how community gardens work but would be glad to help explore it....
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