The Green Acres Neighborhood Garden (GANG) was founded in 2009. For posts from those first two years, including six workshops in 2009 and seven workshops in 2010, go to Urban Farmstead at tendrepress.com.
The GANG’s url, ganggarden.wordpress.com, which has been mostly inactive in the last few years; all GANG-related posts have ended up on exopermaculture instead.
As of late 2014, the Green Acres Neighborhood Garden has an active facebook page that is administered by one of my Green Acres Ecovillage podmates, Katarina Koh.
(May 31, 2015: I’m working on getting this long list completed. . .)
2011
March 14: Today we planted seeds
April 3, 2011: Seedlings Doing Fine (most of them)
April 19, 2011: New Green Acres Neighborhood Blogsite
April 19, 2011: 2011 GANG Workshop Series
April 19, 2011: GANG workshop #1: Growing Shitaki Mushrooms
April 24, 2011: Our First Cob Oven Pizza Party, YES!
May 4, 2011: Workshop#2: Plant the Garden!
June 14, 2011: LOCAL ACTION, June 25th, Mark that Date!
June 15, 2011: Personal Meltdown: Postpartum
June 30, 2011: June 25th, Big Day: First, the Earthen Workshop
June 30,2011: June 25th, Big Day: Second, the Children’s Workshop
July 1, 2011: June 25, Big Day: Third, Summer Solstice Pizza Party and Celebration
July 13, 2011: GANG garden growing
August 2, 2011: Garden workshop next Sunday (and weather not so hot that day)
August 7, 2011: We need to garden as if our lives depend on it
August 10, 2011: Workshop: Summer Assessment, Seeds, and Planting the Fall Garden
November 5, 2011: News about current conundrum at the GANG garden, and a way through
November 5, 2011: My season of discontent: the “political” — is personal, is conflicted, is connected, is community
November 14, 2011: Occupy the GANG Garden, next Sunday, November 20, 9:45 A.M. for Ceremony and Celebration
November 23, 2011: Local Action, “True Grit”: How we and the GANG have begun to transform a seemingly destructive situation
November 26, 2011: Here’s our report on last Sunday’s Ceremony of Impermanence
2012
January 8, 2012: GANG garden and Green Acres Ecovillage hit the news
January 14, 2012: Vandana Shiva: Start A Garden!
February 1, 2012: New Life at GANG for 2012
March 20, 2012: Balancing Spring: Equinox and the GANG
March 26, 2012: LOCAL ACTION: In my little corner of our increasingly glorious despite all reports to the contrary world
March 29, 2012: Food Security: To Thrive, We Must First Survive
April 26, 2012: Ommigod. FRUIT!
May 14, 2012: LOCAL ACTION: Required! “Fire Blight” on the Pear Tree?, Plus: GIFTS! Roots for tonics, plants for plantings; more on Garden Tower . . .
May 23, 2012: Urban Farming: Today’s challenge is to bring food back into our cities in a much more visible and tangible way
May 13, 2012: HELP! Pear tree falling victim, to what?
June 9, 2012: Solace in Solitude
June 16, 2012: Time to party at the GANG garden
June 18, 2012: Help save our garden!
June 20, 2012: Grow with the Flow: Recycling Diluted Human Urine into Plants
June 25, 2012: GANG: Summer Solstice Garden Party Honors Pachamama
June 25, 2012: What’s REAL Homeland Security? Earth Day workers
June 25, 2012: GANG Garden, Children’s Workshop!
July 1, 2012: Beans!
July 1, 2012: Blackberries!
July 17, 2012: In the body and in the garden: cycles of grief and celebration
August 16, 2015: Adapting to drought in the GANG garden
August 25, 2012: Survival Gardening in the Heat: Appreciate and utilize plants that are difficult to get rid of, because they can survive anything!
September 12, 2012: Scavaging for the GANG garden: This morning, grass clippings!
September 15, 2012: Scored Again! Woodchips from the city!
November 13, 2012: Hugelkultur! Plus dinner and dreaming
2013
April 22, 2013: Photo Essay, Work Day YES! Thanks, everyone!
June 21, 2013: Notes on this Glorious Summer Solstice Morning
July 15, 2013: Permaculture 101: Reframe “Losing the battle with a pokeweed forest” to “Aha! What have we here? And how does it work with everything else? And how to “get a yield?””
August 21, 2013: Permaculturist Peter Bane: “Sooner or later we’ll have 50 million new farmers in this country . . . mostly backyard, front yard, empty lots . . .”
September 23, 2013: Blessings of the Waters Equinox Ceremony, GANG garden!
October 29, 2013: Green Acres Neighborhood 2013 Harvest Party: (The usual question, “Will anybody come?”) Read on.
December 7, 2013: On a snowy day, a sunny solar array . . .
2014
April 29, 2014: Green Acres Neighborhood Potluck, April 2014: We gathered in the GANG garden . . .
May 10, 2014: In the GANG Garden on the day before Mother’s Day
May 21, 2014: GANG Garden: Annual Plant Swap, plus assorted fabulous finds
May 22, 2014: The GANG garden: Death, Life, Death, Life . . .
June 2, 2014: GANG Garden/Urban Farmstead News: Work, Relationships, Timing, Glory
June 5, 2014: From-Above-to-Below Department: Rebecca and Me with “Betsy” — to the dump, to get tanks, to greet turkeys!
June 10, 2014: The GANG Garden, Ecovillage: What are the three requirements for long term success? A story from today.
June 12, 2014: Miracles of the Mundane: Mimosa, glasses, dremel tool! YES!
June 20, 2014: The GANG garden on the day before Summer Solstice, 2014
June 21, 2014: YES! Summer Solstice Ceremony in the GANG Garden, 6/21/14, 6:30 AM!
July 14, 2014: New Green Acres Post: The Uncanny Project Report
August 20, 2014: GANG garden news: water catchment victory and plant profusion
August 21, 2014: GANG garden news: pathetic potato harvest
September 23, 2014: Autumn Equinox, 2014: Current State of our Green Acres Urban Farmstead
October 24, 2014: Today’s GANG garden news — and more
October 27, 2014: Late October, 2014: Gasland and GANG (photo essay)
December 4, 2014: GANG news, early December, 2014: one podmate bows out, plus our first “joint production”
December 6, 2014: PHOTO ESSAY: December 6, Bloomington, Indiana: Dreary outside, lively inside . . .
December 17, 2014: Holiday Open House approaches . . . 23 minutes to go . . .
December 18, 2014: PHOTO ESSAY: Green Acres Holiday Open House
2015
January 4, 2015: On Starting A Movement: “It’s the first follower that transforms the lone nut into a leader.”
January 11, 2015: Moving Forward Department: Complaint, or creativity, which shall it be?
January 15, 2015: Photo Essay: Pod Life in the GANG, Mid-January 2015
January 21, 2015: LOCAL Green Acres News and Photos (and Video!), January 19, 2015: Two projects launched!
February 24, 2015: Albert Bates, Naomi Klein, and Late Winter Green Acres News
March 29, 2015: GANG Garden: Our New Broad Fork Arrives. Yaaay!
March 29, 2015: GANG Project: Repair and Improve Front Yard Mound — Done! Thank you!
March 30, 2015: LOCAL: After two long months, Katarina’s Green Acres Grant Group turns in the application!
April 1, 2015: What tiny, common garden resident both composts dead matter and cleans up the soil?
April 25, 2015: LOCAL: “Start a huge, foolish project”: Grant Application Successful!
April 26, 2015: PHOTO ESSAY: Green Acres Ecovillage pod life: April 23-25, 2015
April 29, 2015: LOCAL: “Start a huge, foolish project”: Grant Application Successful!
May 27, 2015: New Garden Tower anchors the GANG Garden
June 2, 2015: PHOTO ESSAY: GANG garden, this morning
June 13, 2015: GANG news, June 12, 2015: Permaculture experiment discovery! Plus new project photos.
June 6, 2015: LOCAL: Farmers Market, Blooming Neighborhoods — and “Puller Bear”!
July 22, 2015: GANG Garden 2015 growing season: The Experiment
