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  Heather Welch August 21, 2009 at 5:36pm

  Hi Robert,
  Thank you so much for your comments about the class, it is always nice to hear that people enjoy it! And I am so glad that your interest in hanging gardens was piqued. I do not have any pictures loaded onto the computer yet but they will be coming online soon. As a brief description, the structure encompasses approximately a 20x30 area. It was designed to have the spiral curve of a nautilus shell, if you looked at it from the sky. The bones of the structure are rebar bent, welded and set into the ground, so that from ground level you walk into an archway with a 4' garden bed on each side that spirals into an open sitting area in the middle. Each piece of rebar is connected to the next by chicken wire, which is easy to move for different plants but sturdy enough to hold up the heavy melons and squash. Excepting pumpkins. :) Hope that helps. :) I will get pics up soon and I am also hosting a tour in oct. if you would like to check it out in person:
  http://azhomegrownsolutions.ning.com/events/tour-haven-sustainable
  Thanks, Heather
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  green shoes July 27, 2009 at 11:35am

  I sure am interested in viewing that movie. Please do let me know when you set up a viewing. I still am persuing better food storage and am perplexed at the options available...plastic: buckets and mylar bags or tin cans which are worse than plastic according to an article I read in the latest MEN.
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  Janine July 15, 2009 at 3:43pm

  Ah, I see Charles' comment below about the 20% fee. Why so high? Why not 10%?
  And the 'men needing work'...as do women. ok ok, off to see if I can get my lab not smelling like a 'cat house' as Steve just said. I dropped a bottle of fragrance oil. lol
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  Janine July 15, 2009 at 3:37pm

  ROFL...how did you know my fear was in exploding pressure cookers??? yeppers, that's the fear. My mother instilled it in me as a child. That would be cool to see it done by someone who knows how. My hubby isn't afraid of pc's, but he doesn't know how to can.
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  Charles Calbom July 14, 2009 at 7:08pm

  Hey Robert, I am no computer junky, I don't know when you sent it, but I got your interest in a co-op. Oh ya I'm gonna do it some way and on some level. Co-operativism is a just, sane, and rational way of organizing a society. I am putting in my first "hope to make a little cash" plants in right now (fall warm season seedlings). I am also putting togeather a Community Exchange in conjunction with The Downtown Market. So first I gotta see if I can grow intensive vegetables. I also got to finish what I have started with The Community Exchange. We almost have a plan ready. It will be a place you can sell excess produce for a 20% fee. I'm planning on doing my initial selling there. After all that than the next step is a worker/grower co-op on a much larger scale. Phoenix has a lot of potential commercial garden sites, and a lot of men needing work. Timing is everything. Chow, keep with me.
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  Janine July 13, 2009 at 5:01pm

  Hi, I don't get up that early for nobody but God and nothing except fishin'. Since there's no place to fish here, and we go to church Saturday nite, it ain't happenin'. I also paid attention today to the fact it's outside. Since I get heat stroke, I'm not going to do cooking outside on a hot day. So I won't be there.
  I do want to learn how to can though. Right now, I'm afraid of pressure cookers, and haven't gotten over that fear in years, so it's a goal. just call when you wanna come over. bring the other half, she MAY get interested on seeing our garden. it's small but it's good. and it doesn't take MUCH effort, except for the blasted watering all the time, even with the drip.
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  Janine July 13, 2009 at 2:49pm

  oh honey! YOU were up early! Why don't you come look at our garden? It's bigger, yet cut back now. the beefsteak tomato is trying to ripen, it quit for a bit.
  Yes, I am heavy into herbalism. my website is www.BlueSageNaturals.com
  Feel free to come over when we are distilling or any other time. I love to show off the garden. LOL and we have 4 muscovies, Bandit [m], Zorro [m], Half Dome [f] and Mama.
  You must be single?