Comments on: Stake Your Acre Challenge!

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By: Evelyn Blanchette

Evelyn Blanchette — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:03:40 +0000

I don’t think I’ll be adopting a whole acre this year, but each year I add to the space I garden. Besides my own urban plot on which I’ll be planting a lot of veggies, I’ve been offered another city plot to garden on with a friend. I would have done this without your challenge because I’m excited about the space and potential. Your challenge has made me decide to adopt one empty lot in my neighbourhood. In spite of the “Private Property” and “No Trespassing” signs. First I’ll do a spring cleanup of the accumulated winter garbage that has blown in and then clear a small space for an excess cherry tree I’ve got in my own garden. Hopefully I can plant some carrots and squash or something nearby as well and if a homeless person finds and needs it, that’s great. Maybe they’ll be inspired to clear a few weeds and plant something of their own to tend.

By: Suz

Suz — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:19:57 +0000

Great idea, Sharon.
Jackie French, an Australian author, talks about ‘marrying our land’ – walking it, observing it, living in it, looking at its margins, learning its every intimate detail so that we can get to know the seasonal changes, the inhabitants (plant, animal and human) and so we can better judge its needs. This is a long-term relationship, just like marriage, which we work on improving all the time, just like marriage.
I’m in.

By: Jasmine Lamb

Jasmine Lamb — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:02:14 +0000

I love this idea!

I love the part about just getting to know a place and noticing what it may need and how we may support it. Not to save the world but to save ourselves!

I admit, I long for an acre that I know I can tend for many years to come, but in the past few years I’ve had my hands in handfuls of gardens and acres and this has been a gift. I’ve fallen in love with these places and grieved when I left.

I’m about to arrive at the acre where I grew up in a week and spend the season tending this. It probably won’t be where I’ll always live but it will always be home and I’m thrilled and eager to be in it and with it. To grow vegetables and see if I can beat back the Japanese Knotweed. And just to get to know it better and appreciate how live moves.

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:50:27 +0000

My own acre takes up almost all my time. Actually, I care for the land behind my lot as well. In addition, I did recently give my brother 2 grafted black walnut trees to transplant to his place in PA. Also, the bluebird house that I put up at my sister’s house on the other side of town last fall is getting the attention of a pair of bluebirds. With any luck, I’ll be seeing the bluebirds on Sunday when I visit. I’m so relieved that she and her family don’t have a cat anymore.

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:50:00 +0000

I’ve had my eye on several vacant acres across the street from our apartment building for a while now. A little wikipedia research reveals:

A second development, the $125 million Rookwood Exchange, was planned on the southern edge of this area directly across the street from the Rookwood Pavilion. However, the area where Rookwood Exchange was to be built was already occupied by a small 11-acre (45,000 m2) neighborhood. The city, declaring the neighborhood of about 70 homes and businesses as “blighted”, attempted to use eminent domain to obtain the land from the property owners.

Three remaining owners in the neighborhood fought Norwood’s use of eminent domain and refused to sell their property. The dispute eventually made national headlines when it was brought before the Ohio Supreme Court in Norwood, Ohio v. Horney. In 2006, the court ruled unanimously for the homeowners and city developers were forced to return ownership of the three properties to the homeowners. Currently, the site sits vacant and there are no future plans for development.

We’re off to do some cleaning, maybe a little planting tonight.

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:52:15 +0000

Perhaps it is time for a global outcry by great numbers of people…….like Sharon and others on the surface of Earth are encouraging now.

Many more people are going to have to speak out loudly, clearly and often about what is somehow true, as each of us sees what is real, so that the whole world can hear our voices. I do not believe that it is ever too late to do the right thing; but it is getting “late in the day” to make necessary changes away from soon to become patently unsustainable global human overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities. Even though a colossal wreckage can be apprehended in the offing if silence prevails over speech-to-power, there is still enough daylight for us to see dimly that adequate space-time exists in which to move forward fast toward sustainability.

By: Gene Green

Gene Green — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:25:44 +0000

You have many good ideas for moving in the right direction. Putting a bell on a cat isn’t one of them and perpetuates a ubiquitous myth about outdoor cats. Outdoor cats cannot be rendered harmless to wildlife. A bell is nothing more than a cheap product that invites us to turn our backs on this fact. As many as a billion wild birds are killed every year by the human created scourge known as house cats. What does putting a bell on a cat do? Does a bird recognize that a bell means danger? Why would it? Did bells confer an evolutionary advantage over mllions of years to birds that understand them versus those that don’t? What about mice and lizards and snakes and toads (although I recognize we care even less about these ickier animals)? Are they also expected to flee at the sound of a bell? And what about baby birds in a nest, what exactly are they supposed to do when they hear that bell? Bells do nothing for birds but they do make people feel better. How lovely and only $2.99 at Walmart. Here are two questions. What do we suppose a bird feels when it is ripped into by the teeth and claws of a cat (here’s a hint, what does our beloved cat feel when it is ripped into by a coyote or a car)? Second, and applicable to so many more of our destructive ways, why is it that we just don’t care?

By: Angie

Angie — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:47:00 +0000

I was fascinated to read this. While walking our dog in a different neighborhood last week, we cam across an extremely littered and overgrown area running between the main road and a creek.

There was an old rusted out sign (from the style and condition, I am guessing it has been there a least 15 years) inviting people to call a number to claim a section to clear and tend. Since it is so overgrown and littered, I am guessing no one took the realtor up on the invitation. My fiance and I talked about it quite a bit.

We are in the process of looking for a place to live, otherwise we would call the number to see if the offer is still good. Once we move, if there is no land, we plan to scout out local areas for the opportunity to use land that is otherwise just sitting there.