[Scpg] Parking Strip Becomes Garden with Free Produce for Neighbors (Video) Peak Moment TV

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Parking Strip Becomes Garden with Free Produce for Neighbors (Video)
by Sami Grover, Carrboro, NC, USA  on 11.25.10
FOOD & HEALTH (food)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25F_KbTz39o&feature=player_embedded

Image credit: Peak Moment TV

 From backyard permaculture to urban homesteads, we see plenty of 
people ripping up lawns and trying to grow more food for themselves 
and their families. But sometimes, it's more about what you can do 
for others than what you can do for yourself. We've already seen what 
happens when neighbors remove fences and start gardens, and now we've 
come across a pair of women who planted up the parking strip in-front 
of their house with vegetables, and then just invited the neighbors 
to help themselves. What happened next is quite beautiful.

When Rainey Hopewell suggested turning the parking strip infront of 
the house she shared with Margot Johnston into a vegetable garden for 
the community, Margot clearly thought she was crazy. But they went 
ahead anyway, and even chalked messages on the sidewalk to explain 
which produce was ready for harvest.

Far from becoming a magnet for freeloaders, the gesture has created a 
sense of community around what has become known as the Haultain 
Common, and now neighbors and friends come and share the labor, and 
the produce, with Rainey and Margot. It's inspiring stuff.

About PEAK MOMENT TV
tp://www.peakmoment.tv/
Peak Moment Conversations: Locally Reliant Living for Challenging Times
An online television series featuring people creating resilient 
communities for a more sustainable, lower-energy future. Programs 
range from permaculture farms to electric bikes, ecovillages to 
car-sharing, emergency preparedness to careers for the coming times. 
As of May 2010, over 170 half-hour programs are available online.
Our programs have had over 1.5 million viewings on this site, on 
YouTube, Energy Bulletin, Blip TV, and up to fifty community-access 
TV stations nationwide. Programs are produced by Janaia Donaldson 
(producer and host) and Robin Mallgren (videographer and editor) of 
Yuba Gals Independent Media.
Peak Moment TV emerged out of our desire to find models among 
grassroots entrepreneurs working to create a sustainable future. From 
a start in our small-town Northern California community access TV 
studio in early 2006, we expanded our scope that summer by visiting 
over 20 West Coast communities and recording more than 140 half-hour 
Peak Moment conversations. In 2010 we plan to return to the Pacific 
Northwest to tape updates and new programs.
Peak Moment Specials
We also produce longer programs, including "Introduction to 
Permaculture", a comprehensive weekend course; the "Best of Peak 
Moment" series featuring collections on Backyard Gardens, 
Permaculture, and Local Business; "Peak Everything", a presentation 
by Richard Heinberg, and "A Renaissance of Local", a 3-day conference 
near Boulder, Colorado.
Behind the Scenes
We live in rural Nevada City. Our business is named for the nearby 
South Yuba River, a part of the Wild and Scenic river system in 
California. We live on 160 acres of forest land, in a 1500 
square-foot off-grid home using about 10% of the electricity of the 
average American home (including home office). Our home is heated by 
a wood stove using deadfall wood from their property. Propane heats 
the cookstove, on-demand water heater and backup generator (needed 
only during extended gray-day periods in winter). Not yet energy 
independent, but moving in that direction!
Contact us:
Peak Moment Television
15504 Lone Bobcat Way, Nevada City, CA 95959
530-265-4244
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