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[sil.]

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[music]

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The big problem is that we have
acres and acres of concrete

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which destroys the microclimate
and is an assault on the senses.

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Bad things happen when places

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cannot live up to the use
that they were designed.

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This isn\'t inner-city problem. It isn\'t a
black problem. It isn\'t a Latin problem.

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It\'s an American problem and it takes
neighborhood action to turn that around.

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Neighbors who know each other feel
more safe about living on their block

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even in dangerous neighborhood. We
do need places to come together

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casual encounters with one another are important
in learning and trust and learning to be civilized

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in the use of the public space.
People too badly need

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fits where they can\'t just hang out who easily
accessible to them where people can meet spontaneously

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day in and day out as part
of their daily routine.

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The neighborhood comments are in
fact these small-scale spaces

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that have so badly needed in our community.

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It\'s a real community I mean the name that really says
that the community garden. Really is a community.

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Having the BART train there you
go right under the gardens.

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It makes it a real urban garden and it is an urban
garden and it just kind of always reinforces that to me.

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They said good fences

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make good neighbors kind of thing and it\'s like yet
when I go to the community garden I find myself

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starting at conversations with people
I\'ve never met before all of sudden

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you know on a first-name basis.

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It really helps the neighborhood because

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you get to know people that you wouldn\'t
normally get wouldn\'t have nothing else to do

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if a person walked by that garden and they
wouldn\'t even stop to set a time of day team.

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I don\'t have any experience gardening

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but I have a lot of experience
working with angels.

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I was also talking to spirit guides
about which plot would be good for me

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and they were telling me not the front row.

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It was a group of

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serious gardening fanatics you might say.

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This is so much missing and people can\'t
really meet easily except on sidewalks.

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So have a little vacant space
that people can come together

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to meet this becomes an
enabled (inaudible).

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[sil.]

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But in our neighborhood

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I saw this huge plot fenced
in with barbed wire around.

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It was full of weeds and junk that could have
become a wonderful meeting place of people.

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As they looked into the ownership
of the lot I found out it

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belonged to BART, the Bay Area Rapid
Transit System a contact of the city

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hoping that the vacant lot could
become a community garden.

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Karl took me by the elbow
and began to talk about

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this property that BART owned and at
that point it looked exactly like

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what you would expect a vacant lot that\'s been
overgrown with weeds and had trucks running through it

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would look like with a cyclone fence.
So we started working with BART.

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Karl would call continually nudging this thing
forward in any possible way that he could

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because that\'s how he gets things done.
There was just no grass under Karl\'s feet.

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Karl Linn came to BART
and made a proposal that

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we used this land for something
else besides just providing access

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for our maintenance. It\'s a great achievement
on the part of the community to take this land,

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this raw land and turning it
into something productive.

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Finally they agreed to rent this space
to us that\'s $1 a year agreement

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where the city staff and the BART staff
have to come together hammer out the terms

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and have a document that they can present and say
okay now we\'re ready to sign here on the bottom line.

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It\'s very exciting that we have
a signed contract with BART

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(inaudible). (inaudible)
various community meetings

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despite our eagerness to set aside
people\'s expressed interests and visions

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we\'ve realized we couldn\'t
set aside everybody.

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(inaudible).

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Let\'s face it. Community garden is it\'s
a good thing but there were issues

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my petition my survey
had seven alternatives

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gardening was one.

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(inaudible).

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The response was not good.
It was a mistake.

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I was shouted down and I
got up and I walked out.

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(inaudible)

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The people who were

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less inclined in that direction left out
I think and I\'ve watched this happen

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in other efforts around doing things
together with a large number of people.

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It\'s one of the things as human
beings we need to work out

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and learn it. So it\'s part of our
evolution I think as people.

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Are we going to vote on something or how is that
going to work? Everybody in favor say aye. Oppose.

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Since people wanted the garden
to be very special garden

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and started to think what could
be unique about this garden that

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would in fact be an inspiring design. The
thought of the Garden of Eden in New York City

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a very special design was
a circular garden beds

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created by Adam Purple that even
made in the National Geographic.

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[music]

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Unfortunately the garden was demolished.
They wanted to wipe the garden out

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because they had a plan that they want to put
a building here and I didn\'t own the land.

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[sil.]

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Eventually there there will be a consciousness level and
somebody somewhere will say hey that was a pretty good scheme.

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Let\'s try it again. The starting was
a design of the circular (inaudible)

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to me it was the resurrection of

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the Garden of Eden and a West Coast.

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Welcome to our new garden. Well I\'m glad

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you came because we want to build a community
garden here and some work is really

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very difficult for neighbors who just want to grow
vegetables and flowers. I guess you\'re going to divide into

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division of labor that
some teams (inaudible)

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[music]

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I remember when I was
walking around the area

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noticing this piece of land right here near BART I\'m thinking
that this would be a natural for Karl he likes to get

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as much land to the community as possible.
He gets a lot of joy of

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having participation of neighbors and in particular
that there\'ll be a place with people to gather.

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I think his main passion in life is that people
have a place for community to come together

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where it\'s not a matter of money and it\'s
also in a beautiful natural setting.

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So at his last 75 years
what really happened to me

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made me realize how important is to
live in a society that\'s based on

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tolerance and multiculturalism.
I was born and raised

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on a farm in northern Germany and
I grew up in it\'s incredible

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15 acres of fruit trees
that during springtime

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and all the (inaudible) bloom
looked just absolutely incredible.

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It was just like a fairyland.
The farmers about half a mile

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away from the village and we were the only
Jewish family and the huge, huge region.

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I know how difficult it was for
me as the only Jewish kid.

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Then Hitler took power in

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January 1933, my schoolmate suggested
that a join the youth movement

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because had a lot of fun going camping and

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had a real sense of community
and I knew I couldn\'t do that

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and a few months later they realized
that there was a only convenient target

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they could practice on
and from time to time

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could hear the Nazi school step as he walked
on the cobblestone street or the farm

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check it out the house
out and threatening us

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and my experience with racism

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really motivated me to
devote my life to contribute

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to the emergence of a humane society.

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Good evening tonight concept looks at

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a most unusual recreational project and the idea
is a professor Karl Linn German-born psychologist

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who was then assistant professor of landscape
architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Professor Linn brought to the project highly
developed ideas of the needs of people

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and the responsibility of the architect to create an area
whose very shape and feeling would provide a healthy

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and inspiring influence on all who came here. A place
which would bring neighbors together, a commons.

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(inaudible)

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it\'s so designed that people can
be in each other\'s presence

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but not in each other ways. So the
senior citizen needed a place over here

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and the tiny tots right over here
and the teenagers over there

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so we could bring about the read
integration of an extended family

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in the neighborhood context.

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So how many people want flat can
you lift your hands a minute.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5 plenty of beds here right now

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and latter from it (inaudible)
That\'s what I came here to do today.

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(inaudible) It felt like when
settlers came to the west

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or to the Midwest they
could claim whatever plot.

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After you know racial horses out and then you know
when you get to the you know spot that\'s yours

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but just you know throw down here\'s a dig otherwise
you know someone else is going to claim.

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(inaudible)

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[sil.]

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Karl had said these are the jobs that need
to be done and he made it really clear

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that we needed to step forward.
Okay (inaudible).

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You know it was like getting to the
point where there was this dead silence

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and people kind of just doing the thing and they\'re
kind of fidgeting and looking at each other

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and I think (inaudible) had said Juliana
you should and then everyone else

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starts going yeah you should.

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Of all the people in this group I should do this
and it\'s good you know it\'ll be good for me.

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(inaudible).

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I\'ll help with putting in angels and fairies and
(inaudible). I have a lot of experience working with angels.

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I put in interdimensional gateway

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to another dimension that
specializes in love and I put in

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an interdimensional gateway into another
dimension that specializes in joy.

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[music]

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(inaudible) she was turning her dirt over.
I told I said

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I got something in my backyard would be good for that so
I went got it and brought it over and let her used it

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and she used it to shift her soil
to get the rocks and the lumps

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and stuff out you know. We had
to take these screen sifters

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that we made and then

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(inaudible) but we wanted
to get the stones out of it

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and we had a lot of fun.

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[music]

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The gardens are made accessible to all including
you know people with with disabilities not just.

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If you\'re going to talk about a
community garden that should include

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the entire community and so that means people
who use wheelchairs, people who have bad backs

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whatever and a lot of times that\'s
simply a double raised bed wide enough

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space between the plots to access them.

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The (inaudible) stayed with us five weeks

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and after they left the
gardeners finish those tasks

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that (inaudible) did not quite complete.

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[music]

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I think everybody was pretty amazed at me because I was one
of the oldest members of the garden and I was just out there

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shoveling and wheel barrowing
and I felt really very macho.

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[music]

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You find out who has a good sense
of humor and who\'s grouchy

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and who\'s really strong and who can\'t do much
and it\'s really fun to get to know people.

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I really enjoyed the work. I
really liked physical work

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and outdoor work and gardening but
as much as I enjoyed the work

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I enjoyed meeting the people.
Within three months of

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being involved in the garden
I had talked to more people

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and really made more friends even than I had
in three years of living in the neighborhood.

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If you are frightened in the public realm

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and I don\'t mean frightened of
wild animals or of tornadoes

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or whatever but frightened of other people
you\'re in a place that isn\'t civilized

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because that\'s really the basic
bottom line on civilization

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and there are great
differences in the streets

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and sidewalks the public realm of
a city of how civilized it is.

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This is one reason that people
nowadays are so concerned

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about community.

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The idea of people feeling that
they can depend upon each other

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in a basic way. Knowing
others and being known

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creates a way for people

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to gauge their real risk on the streets of their
neighborhood to know what\'s dangerous and what\'s not

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in the old neighborhood the lady across
the street who looked out the window

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all the time, the guy down the block
who when you fell off your bike

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knew where you lived, knew
who your parents were.

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We gave that up traded it
in for a new way of life

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but we were so quick to trade that in for a new
way of life that we threw away the good stuff

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along with the bad stuff.

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I grew up in a small town in Indiana. I
haven\'t felt that sense of community of

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that small town until I
joined the community garden.

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I get on my bicycle and I ride
my bike over to the garden

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and then we just chat just like two
neighbors would over the back fence

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stand and talk and do that with
everybody that who comes to the garden.

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Then I walk down the street and
so many people say hi Karl

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to really develop a sense of
friendship I think that\'s what

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it\'s really all about.

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I had always seen Roosevelt\'s grandson

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and we\'d always exchanged a few hellos
and waved and things like that.

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It\'s such a cutie you know I\'d always have to bother
him and so it\'s nice to finally meet Roosevelt

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because I had already known his grandson.

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(inaudible)

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his mother tell me to go find him

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I say I bet he\'s over in that garden
somebody\'s over there tinkering in a garden

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and he\'s over there watching him or
something that\'s usually where he\'d be it.

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He stays busy doing something all of the
time. He\'s not playing video games.

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Can I help you granddaddy?
What are you doing you know

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he\'s always asking questions you know.

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Amy is my daughter. She was just barely
walking when this all got started.

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Kids and dirt, kids and garden, kids
and water, kids, water and dirt

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are the perfect trio. We
don\'t have a backyard

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and the gardens only half a block away.
So we would come over to the garden

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and she would help me
work and dig and plant.

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She\'s really at home there.

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(inaudible) One group activity. (inaudible)

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So cooperative effort of
people who live in a black

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we can nurture extended family
living because every person

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who lives in a plot is something
unique to contribute to the building

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even little kids like to play and like
to be of help, like (inaudible) did,

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and his relation to his grandfather
they helped each other.

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All ages have something

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to contribute to each other.

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[music]

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Just like in a family or
in any other community

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problems develop. One day
one of the gardener\'s

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showed up with a free roll of sod that
she had received. She came to the garden

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and she rolled it out in front of the garden
where everyone in the community could see it.

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Is representing the perimeter committee
which is the committee that\'s trying to say

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what we should plant in the borders. Somebody
came up and wanted to give the nursery

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this sod which is grass
and the woman said no

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she didn\'t want it. I ran out to the streets,
stopped the driver from taking it to dump

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and that\'s how I got the
grass that\'s in front.

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And she was telling us she was so
excited like oh look at what I got

00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:09.999
you know for free and isn\'t this so great and
meanwhile you know there\'s people in our group

00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:14.999
who were just like devastated who you know

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.999
would rather see piles of
bricks and barbed wire there

00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:24.999
than you know grass.

00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:29.999
When I saw the sod there (inaudible) fainted
(inaudible) of the low water movement.

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Grass was just like a horrendous mistake.

00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:39.999
And I would like a grass lawn I could never
own to have (inaudible) have a grass lawn

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and I think it would be pretty the flowers and roses or
something along the side of it. I know I think the lawn is

00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.999
like we have idea that we have a
nice lawn in order but I think

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.999
it\'s environmentally that the worst thing.

00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.999
Lawns were invented in the 17th century by
very wealthy you know feudal lords in England

00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.999
who were showing and demonstrating their opulent
wealth by having a green sward a meadow

00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:09.999
that could be cut by size
and not grazed by animals.

00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.999
In other words it was conspicuous consumption
saying I have this meadow upon which

00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.999
I need no animals whatsoever and I can just cut
the grass and throw it away. Grass was like gold

00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.999
so valuable and so we still
have after hundreds of years

00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:29.999
what we have is you know American
man on Sundays or Saturdays

00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.999
with their little power mowers going back and forth
on these little strips of lawn and they\'re clueless

00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.999
as to what a lawn is, what it means, where it
came from except it is green and short clipped.

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Out get that shove out.

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This sounds very political to me.

00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.999
(inaudible)

00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.999
All hands in favor of sod. Okay all hands

00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.999
against sod, oppose. (inaudible) okay.

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.999
Everybody agreed that the sod had to go. So
Ruth went home dragging your tail behind her

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.999
and we didn\'t see her for a while.

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[music]

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That is our garden you see

00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.999
with the marigolds over there.

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Here it is and I will tell you

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.999
what we did to make this.
Just planted the marigold.

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.999
These I think are corns I don\'t know

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.999
and these are pumpkins that
haven\'t grown any plants yet

00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:59.999
but actually they have
some plants but they are…

00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.999
they haven\'t thrown any pumpkins.

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:09.999
Underlying you know premises
that reverb is it\'s really

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:14.999
it\'s an attempt to reclaim the commons because
the commons was enclosed is being enclosed

00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.999
constantly once it was people\'s birthright
there\'s a sustainable relationship

00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.999
to natural environment.
Common land in the UK

00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.999
is a survival from the 10th, 11th centuries

00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.999
when the king divided up land and
there was a general sense of

00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.999
what was called common law that related to

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.999
all people having an access
to a piece of ground.

00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:49.999
The idea was that

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:54.999
there was a piece of land that
everybody in the village could use.

00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.999
The few animals you had
could pasture there.

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.999
You could put your cow out. This is why
you\'ll find commons in New England.

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:09.999
We really think of it as parkland today

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.999
since so few of us herd sheep but

00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.999
the idea is that we all have a stake in it.

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.999
The commons was the people\'s park,
for them to use not just to

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.999
use the way they were
told here you may swim,

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.999
here you may walk, here
you may rollerblade.

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.999
Initially you know all natural area the call
the commons say as they call the commons today

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.999
so as waters, the air, the atmosphere

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.999
and the land belong to everybody.

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.999
Over the last seven, eight hundred
years in successive stages

00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.999
those common lands have been incorporated

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.999
into private ownership. They\'ve been this

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.999
successive dispossession of land.
The commons shrunk and shrunk

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.999
until you have a little place that
people can graze sheep and so on thing

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.999
gets smaller and smaller on the side of the
(inaudible) gets more than this little piece left

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.999
and now the last pieces being threatened
with extinction. So the whole reclaiming

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.999
you can work backwards too.
You start some little one

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.999
and then you more more and more.
So we\'re making the point

00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.999
in reclaiming the commons to build
community. It\'s really that\'s what you…

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.999
We are allowing this function right over here right now
where this woman is helping this blind man garden.

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.999
That\'s just exquisite
beyond (inaudible) just

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.999
(inaudible) too.

00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:59.999
And that\'s remain. But it\'s better now.

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.999
Yeah everything\'s up.

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.999
Yeah spinach is up.

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.999
(inaudible) for a couple weeks wait.

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.999
So that made the planting pretty easy.
Yeah it\'s literally instant going.

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.999
Very fast.

00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.999
[music]

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.999
We\'re going to make it handicapped ready

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.999
so a wheelchair could go across well
for a wheelchair to go across sand

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.999
is not what you\'d call an easy process.

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.999
I think access is crucial

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.999
on all levels. I think we should be
a model for other community gardens

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.999
around the country and world that you know access
should be one of the first things started.

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:08.000
[music]

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.999
So which one is your plant. (inaudible)

00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.999
(inaudible) You got to
get some work done here.

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.999
We just got in today. You did.
I see. You are lucky.

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.999
(inaudible) there aren\'t many left.
You might be the last one.

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:39.999
[sil.]

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.999
Working with Karl Linn is a mixed bag

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.999
and for me personally

00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:54.999
I loved it because you know I say this now.

00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.999
(inaudible)

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.999
Sometimes there was a point where I\'d
come home and play my answering machine

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:09.999
and I see you know and I see oh
five messages I\'m like alright

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.999
you know because you\'re so excited to get all these
messages and every single one of them is from Karl.

00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.999
(inaudible)

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:24.999
I would like to show you this side.
You know

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.999
umm… talk to Roosevelt about this oh you know
don\'t forget to pick up these flyers on this

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.999
and oh you know and and I\'m going you know at the
moment you know I\'m just writing this stuff down

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.999
and going oh geez you
know what a slave driver.

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.999
And in the meantime that fell in that
careful is you don\'t spit on the sand.

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
He\'s a good person. He\'s good hearted.
He has good intentions

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.999
but there is another side of Karl and
that is it\'s a he\'s a control freak.

00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.999
He wants to be in control of everything.

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.999
(inaudible).

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.999
And here we are at the community
garden and then we have this

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.999
old duffer telling us what to
do and he won\'t accept no.

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.999
I once told Carl

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:24.999
he was one of the few leaders I ever met
who knew what democracy was and I think

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.999
there\'s a certain truth in that. I think Karl
if you have to push Karl I think to step back

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.999
but he will and my respect. I
respect a lot of his work.

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.999
I think his work has really been great.

00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:48.000
[music]

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.999
Everybody got different ideas and
gardening is real tricky. You never know

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.999
when you plan to seed if the
seed is going to produce.

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.999
Some people can put a
hundred seeds in the ground

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.999
and won\'t get nothing you know that
other people can put ten seeds in there

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.999
may get ten plants you know.
So it\'s like I say

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.999
it\'s a mystery.

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:28.000
[sil.]

00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.999
At some point in the future we\'re going to
have to use materials a lot more wisely than

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.999
we\'ve had to certainly in the past century.
So structural material bamboo is

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.999
a really great candidate for
the… the future way of building.

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.999
So we did a workshop to build a trellis

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:54.999
at the Peralta community garden. It was a good opportunity
to kind of introduce a lot of people to some basic ideas.

00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.999
You want to lift it straight
up and then take it here.

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.999
We will just take it over where Karl says.
So the idea is that we\'re going to

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.999
we\'re going to build six of these and what
we will wind up doing today is to get

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.999
the bolts in and get the mortar into
some of the joints so we can have it

00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.999
set up overnight.

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.999
It lends itself well to working in a group

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.999
and that\'s been the traditional way
of working with bamboo and in Asia

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
and in South America is that you work with the
people and your in your family in your community

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.999
I think that makes a lot of sense.
So we just go home.

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.999
So this concept of cooperation to meet
not only the needs of individuals

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.999
but also the needs of the community
was really a very important concept

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.999
for the Mennonites. When they had a big task
that could not be done by an individual family.

00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.999
When they were ready to build a barn they would
invite all the neighboring families from miles around

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.999
and they would have this huge celebration
and it would raise the barn together.

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.999
[music]

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.999
And as we looked around the world in fact one of
the things that I found of this tradition is alive

00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.999
and well in Africa. I travel for example
to Mali and I saw this very same tradition

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.999
operating when people had to rebuild the mosque to meet
their shared needs and the whole community came together.

00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.999
[music]

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.999
As you vote together building our (inaudible)
and be engaged in urban bound raising

00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.999
(inaudible) something together
if you could never do alone.

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.999
The notion of urban barn raising
is to try to restore or to reclaim

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.999
these traditions for people
who are living in cities.

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.999
The results were we\'re wonderful. We built
something that I think will last a long time

00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:00.000
and it came out very well.

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.999
(inaudible) and here is the recipe that I learned
for compost. Where you take a little banana peel

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.999
leftovers from your last meal
and everything except the steak

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.999
goes in a compost kit. The dedication of
the garden was a really exciting time.

00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.999
It\'s really fun. We worked so hard

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.999
and I think the two months or
so right before the dedication

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.999
just everybody really looked forward to it and it was a
big event and exciting for all of us and that was fun.

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:43.000
[music]

00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.999
Hi welcome and good afternoon to everybody
I\'m (inaudible). I\'m the coordinator.

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.999
Being MC I was kind of nervous about that.
I\'d never really done

00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.999
anything like that before. I know it\'s
important to you it\'s important to us

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.999
at BART also and I think I speak
on behalf of all of the members of

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.999
the Board of Directors to say that
we\'re very delighted that you saw

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.999
fit to do this. To all of the people
here who put their backs into it

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.999
and their sweat into it and who make
this… this happen thank you so much

00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:24.999
we need one on every block
in every neighborhood.

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:33.000
[music]

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.999
What we could do now all together this
take your mineral dust let\'s bend now

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.999
low to the earth all together.

00:36:55.000 --> 00:37:03.000
[music]

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.999
I\'ve been making the gate for the community
garden. I do sculpture out of metal.

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:54.999
I use a plasma torch

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.999
to cut it and I work pretty quickly that\'s
part of how I get the liveliness in it

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:04.999
it\'s by working sort of quickly.

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:09.999
I like to use recycled scrap and there\'s
something really fun to go to a junkyard

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.999
and turn some useless rack into

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.999
a joyous critter flying through the air.

00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:24.999
[sil.]

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.999
I like animals and they sort of
spring to me sometimes in the scrap

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.999
what I\'ve cut away I can
see animals or critters

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.999
in the cutaway part. It really is
like a five year old with a torch.

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.999
[music]

00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.999
I love gardening as well
so to put the two together

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.999
art and gardening was exciting to me

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.999
plus it was nice to get to meet other artists because I
think art you can be working a little bit in isolation.

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.999
So to work where the community
was really exciting.

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:13.000
[music]

00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.999
My name is Dmitry Grudsky. I\'m a traveler

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.999
like an adventurer back in Russia
the city where I\'m from is

00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:29.999
a Tashkent it\'s the capital of Uzbekistan.

00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.999
It\'s a small Republic. It used to be
small Republic now it\'s a small country

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:39.999
because my profession is
artists visual artists

00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:44.999
inspirational form of my benches is snakes,

00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.999
snakes movement. So it gives you
kind of nature graphic design

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.999
snakes kind of following each other.

00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:03.000
[music]

00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:09.999
Well the red-tailed hawk

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.999
it\'s a bird that is still here and
we can see it flying above us

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.999
and so the idea of bringing that
into the garden was to create

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.999
some sense of being closer
to what\'s wild around.

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.999
First feeling now when I walk into
the gardens is this feeling of

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.999
it\'s kind of like a wonderland. I think
some of that has to do with the art

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.999
that\'s around also as you walk in just everywhere
there\'s like there\'s glitters of beauty.

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.999
It\'s the flowers and the plants
and then there\'s this added

00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.999
sense of these extra little things what are
they and then of course there\'s people.

00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.999
[music]

00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:59.999
And this I think actually too is what this.

00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:04.999
See can you imagine.

00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.999
They have got overgrown but I bet you if you
cut it out it\'s still pretty good. I bet you.

00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:14.999
I haven\'t tried but I\'m going
to give to one of the kids.

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:19.999
[sil.]

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:24.999
(inaudible) and he is my
(inaudible) you\'re in the camera.

00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:29.999
I take a (inaudible) to the garden
fairly frequently for exercise.

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.999
Politically he was incorrect in
the beginning days of the garden

00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:39.999
because he jumped into Jones
plot on several occasions.

00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.999
We all thought it was a good idea to have

00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.999
our pets leashed and tied when they were in
the garden. The rabbit was not on the leash

00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.999
and it happened to be sitting in
my plot so I was kind of like

00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.999
I was worried about my garden basically.

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.999
Ruth what is this rabbit doing in my
plot and it\'s literally sitting like

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:09.999
under my tomato plants or whatever. It\'s
really right in the vegetables there

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:14.999
and oh he\'s just sleeping. People were getting
kind of irritated at that little rabbit.

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.999
It was a nice little rabbit but she used
to bring him over then just put him down

00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.999
and he would hop around
and sniffing the gardens

00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.999
and everything but I never did see him eating anything out
of anybody\'s garden. I don\'t know if he did or not but.

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.999
So I was pretty insistent upon her

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.999
taking the rabbit out of my plot.

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.999
I had to really make sure that he didn\'t jump into people\'s
plots. So now I just keep him in the central area.

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.999
He has a little run that he normally does

00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.999
you know and he has a certain favorite places where
he knows and he seems to just jump into those places

00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.999
and they\'re caught totally okay.

00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.999
Neighborhood now will

00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.999
adopt garden as their
own place of meeting to

00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.999
root this place in the daily
life of the neighborhood

00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.999
and the other thing that
I wanted to talk about

00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:24.999
which is it was really difficult

00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.999
Joan so came down with breast cancer (inaudible)
metastasized gee it\'s a single parent of

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.999
a three year old very precious
people to be worried about.

00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.999
This is also part of making
friends these people

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:44.999
and you start to care about each other.

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:53.000
[music]

00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.999
Joan has been an incredible part of the garden.
She was right there building it with us

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.999
and doing so much hard labor. Her
daughter Amy has been such a joy

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to see at the garden and it\'s just
been so much fun to see her grow up

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at the garden.

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[music]

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(inaudible) is really helpful
and supportive of me

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right now and she helped me
this morning do some planting

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and so it\'s been an opportunity
for people to meet each other

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on many different levels. (inaudible)

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[music]

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A few months ago I had a
healing circle in the garden

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and it was for myself and
a group of my friends

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and the garden just struck me as being
a perfect… perfect place to do that.

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The garden really has been
really important for me

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and I\'m just being able to I mean
I don\'t work so hard there now

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but I really enjoy the piece of
it and I feel like in a way like

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I gave to the garden and the
garden is giving to me now.

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We continue to support her and
we\'re also really really glad that

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we have the beauty at the garden that
she can enjoy in her time of trial

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and you know that each of us
will have our time of trial

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in this place for all of us.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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There\'s an artist (inaudible) she\'s
doing a sculpture of me and Amy.

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It\'s going to be a bronze sculpture for
the garden that\'s kind of a weird thing

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for me to have a sculpture done of me
especially you know especially for the garden

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it kind of felt very strange
especially being it having cancer

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and it felt like oh this is too
weird but I love sculpture so much.

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We talked a lot about it and so we said
okay let\'s let\'s go ahead and do it.

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Karl asked me to do this commissioned.

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He wanted to do Joan and Amy.
He mentioned to me that

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Joan was quite ill and for me
to show triumph over adversity

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is a big part of who I
want to be as an artist

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and Joan certainly exemplifies this.
She\'s not only a survivor of

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her illness she said
prevail er and so is Amy.

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(inaudible)

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And one day Joan said to
me that Amy said to her

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mommy I\'ve always been in your heart mommy

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and she said yes Amy, you\'ve
always been in my heart.

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So I thought that\'s what I would title it

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Joan and Carl were going to come

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and view the piece in its finished state.

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(inaudible)

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And then to see Carl and Joan the love

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they have for each other, the
respect and the love. (inaudible)

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so difficult Twitter at the moment for me.

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Kind of get you in that

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(inaudible).

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[music]

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People have an opportunity
to get to know each other

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this is the basis for community. That
way I\'m tempted to live my daily life

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took a joy and possibility and things
that inspiring but underneath it all

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there\'s a lot of pain. The latter
pain I was inspired by so many

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wonderful ideas and Utopian
notion and they had fallen apart

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so many have fallen apart. (inaudible)

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dedicate this garden to peacemaking garden.
Welcome all the groups

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that (inaudible).

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(inaudible).

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Oh God you have called us to to
peace for your peace itself. Amen.

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[music]

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We planted the peace pole last year

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on which peace was justice.
What\'s carved in four langauges,

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Arabic, Hebrew, German and English.
In planting the peace pole

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we dedicated this provide
a community garden

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as a provider peace garden. I just
want to welcome everybody here today

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we\'re so proud that you could be here with
us today and to share our garden with you

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and we hope that you\'ll come back here time and again.
This community garden has been offered by Karl Linn

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and the garden community as an
opportunity to let nature\'s joy,

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beauty, serenity, and love sprout
once again in our heavy hearts.

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Without such a garden within us we all
become helpless and powerless victims.

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I really want to add to that the belief

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and the possibility that when our
hearts open together like this

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that it actually affects our peoples.
I\'m glad that\'s people could make it

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and I think that this garden was made

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and it was good thing that it was
made because peace is a great thing.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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[music]

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I really, really am particularly attracted to the pond
area but I don\'t know where it will be and it really

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I don\'t know how much of a
difference it makes to me.

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I remember literally

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swinging the Maddox and digging up that
dirt very, very hard dirt over there

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and planting the first plants in the pond and now
looking at how absolutely beautiful that pond

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and the fountain is and I really like water
so I\'d kind of like it to be over there

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but I have no idea and it really
wherever it goes it\'ll be fine.

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[music]

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You know people always want to
know what\'s going to happen

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in the future and I\'m no help
on that because I\'m no prophet.

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You know most other people aren\'t any
help either because other people

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aren\'t prophets either. I don\'t
know why we\'re so hung up on so,

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what\'s going to happen, how\'s it going to be, whether
cities going to be like in another hundred years, etc.

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I think that\'s nonsense. We ought to
look and see what\'s happening now.

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People don\'t pay attention to
what\'s happening right now

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and seeing as far as possible that it\'s happening
well but it\'s going in the right direction

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because the only way I
can be a prophet at all

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is to tell you that if you go in the
wrong direction that\'s going to be bad.

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The value of real community is
created when we open ourselves up

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to the people that we live with, make common cause
with them in making this place a decent place to live

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and there are heroes coast-to-coast

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who are responding to that call that call
to open themselves up to their neighbors.

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[music]

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Well I haven\'t given up on Karl. I treated
him like I would any of my other neighbors.

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So there it is and here I am worst
people side by side in Berkeley

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and (inaudible) okay.

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We really never know what will happen
with the future and I concluded

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how important this for me not
to be a pessimist or optimist

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but a possibility to get
possibilities of working with people

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creating life supportive, life
affirmative small projects

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that could be inspiring and
enrich people\'s lives.

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It gives me this incredible boost of hope

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I mean even to the point of feeling like
maybe world peace is possible to transform

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this useless unused piece of
property into now it\'s a place

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that\'s thriving with neighbors, growing their
food getting together and it might seem

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small at first but it\'s not at all small.

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It grows. There is nothing
small about that garden.

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[music]

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To learn more about community gardens in
your area and across North America visit

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the American Community Gardening Association
website at communitygarden.org.