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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Cooperative gardens join
community’s members
Emphasis on
local produce
BY MATTHEW MCGIBNEY
STAFF WRITER
A blue board identifies the gar
den behind Kenan Residence Hall
as the Carolina Garden Co-Op.
Six long dirt mounds display
mostly plain vegetation, with the
exception of a patch of bright sun
flowers. The rows anchor hand
written markers with the names of
vegetables.
At the foot of one row lies a dark
blue Nalgene bottle ; abandoned in
the shade.
Gardens such as the Carolina
Garden Co-Op, Carrboro
Community Garden Coalition and
the Northside Community Garden
provide local food, a sense of com
munity and opportunities for phys
ical activity for gardeners.
“Besides producing food, they
act as a local gathering place, and
as a place for people to get to know
each other,” said Greta Lee, project
manager for the Northside garden
at 400 Caldwell St. “There’s also
education, as people learn from
each other about how to grow and
cook vegetables.”
The Chapel Hill Town Council
passed a resolution Monday to
encourage the Active Living by
Design Committee’s pursuit of
more community gardens.
The Active Living Committee
promotes a more active lifestyle.
John Richardson, town sustain
ability officer, said the resolution’s
goal is to expand gardening oppor
tunities in Chapel Hill.
“The idea would be that as more
community gardens crop up, no
pun intended, more pockets in
Chapel Hill would receive the ben
efits,” he said.
As the United States moves
away from its agricultural past,
fewer people garden, Richardson
said.
Food also is often imported
from great distances, which can
constitute a threat to food secu
rity. •
“Local food makes us much more
self-reliant,” said Mike Lanier, an
agent with the N. C. Cooperative
Extension. “Being dependent on
food from far away is probably
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community gardens the Chapel Hill Town Council plans to recognize.
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On average, food travels more
than 1,500 miles from where it is
grown to Chapel Hill, Lanier said.
He referenced a trucker strike in
England that cut off English cities’
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“Usually people don’t have a lot
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as a place where people can have
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den,” Lanier said.
“It’s more helpful to work with
other people than alone.”
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Garden aims to bridge gap
Homeless would plant, sell produce
BY VICTORIA STILWELL
STAFF WRITER
UNC students are trying to
put a face on the town’s homeless
community.
Campus Y’s Hunger and
Homelessness Outreach Program
aims to start a bio-intensive com
munity garden that would engage
students and the homeless in
planting their own produce and
selling it in the Pit or dining
facilities.
“(It’s an) all-inclusive program
that is not only going to provide
the participants with some food
and some income, but will also
give them some momentum in
their life,” said sophomore David
Baron, the garden coordinator.
The inspiration for the garden
came from two different sources
for Baron and junior Maggie
West, co-chairwoman for HOPE.
West took an alternative spring
break trip to a community gar
den in Durham that has a simi
lar layout as the proposed HOPE
garden, while Baron worked in
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Homeless specialist Stan Holt
of the Triangle United Way said
the HOPE garden has potential.
“The more that homeless folks
can interact with nonhomeless
folks, the better we’re able to
break down the myths associated
with homelessness,” Holt said.
“Projects like that bring a com
munity together and begin to
break those barriers down.”
Holt is a member of the Orange
County Partnership to En(l
Homelessness Executive Team
whose goal is to end chronic
homelessness, which is defined
by consistent periods of time and
sometimes accompanied with dis
ability or substance abuse.
John Rogers, an associate pas
tor of University Presbyterian
Church on Franklin Street and
member of the executive team,
said he thinks the garden would
be “incredibly beneficial” to the
homeless community.
“Often they feel like they’re
not treated like a human being.
Democrats, Republicans split over
details of economic-stimulus package
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT)-
Congressional Democrats are
pushing for a SSO billion eco
nomic-stimulus plan as a way not
only to jolt the economy but also
to help themselves politically in
November’s elections.
The plan would include
spending for infrastructure, an
extension of unemployment ben
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income families and aid to cover
Medicaid health care costs.
Most Republicans sharply
disagree. They note that negotia
tors from Congress and the Bush
administration already are eyeing
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Some senior administra
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I think this’ll bridge the gap,” he
said.
The location of the garden has
not yet been determined, but
there are several potential sites,
Baron said.
“Really we’ll take anything we
can get our hands on,” Baron said.
“Once we have land, we can get
it rolling.”
Until then, Baron and West,
along with HOPE Co-Chairwoman
Megan Strickland, can be found
on Franklin Street getting input
from the people they are trying
to help.
“There’s been generally posi
tive feedback from the homeless
community,” Strickland said.
HOPE will also attend Project
Homeless Connect on Thursday
to inform people about their
project.
“It’s a multifaceted effort, com
bining the local and organic food
movement, sustainability, hun
ger, poverty,” Baron said. “I think
putting them together makes
each one more effective in being
solved.”
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With this fiscal year’s federal
budget deficit likely to top S4OO
billion and next year’s likely to
top that, “sooner or later there
will have to be a reckoning,” said
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the
top Republican on the Senate
Banking Committee.
Independent economists also
are unenthusiastic about anew
stimulus. They say a SSO billion
plan would add only about half
of 1 percent to the GDP, roughly
the same as the February stimu
lus added.
Market trouble
triggers oil spike
LOS ANGELES (LAT-WP) -
The price of oil rocketed Monday,
posting its largest ever one-day
gain as the dollar’s value sank and
traders went on a buying spree
to close out losing positions on
expiring October oil contracts.
At one point, light sweet crude
for October delivery traded more
than $25 higher than its Friday
close; it ended the day at $120.92
a barrel. The jump reflected the
frenzy in financial markets as
investors digested the ramifica
tions of the Federal Reserve’s
still-developing S7OO billion
bailout of companies hobbled by
soured mortgage investments.