Free fruit

Craig, one of our founding members, planted a "Turkey Lake Persimmon" ( a native) outside of Dreamers Garden (corner of NW 10th ave & 4th st; right by Hyde & Zeke Records & the new Flashbacks location, very close to Hospice attic). If you have access to inside the garden btw, he also planted several Myer Lemons & Satsumas, both are fruiting now.
(picture here http://www.havenhospice.org/newsletters/VolunteerVoices/VolunteerVoicesSept08_FINAL.pdf )
map
http://events.gainesville.com/gainesville-fl/venues/show/481508-dreamers-garden


I was in town last weekend & noticed it had lost all its leaves, but had a ton of fruit dangling. Robby & I shook one & a several ripe & mushy ones dropped. They were very sweet. The native ones are astringent, meaning you have to wait until they are very mushy to loose that "funny" taste. Many people unfamiliar with Persimmons don't know this, as our grocery stores toss anything that becomes ripe (it's nice to actually finally see yellow bananas in the store because the economy!).

There is also so much Rosemary that it spills over into the median (thanks Jen, another founding member!).

Guerrilla Gardening

in case you need any encouragement or ideas about planting in public spaces:
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/

getting started as a guerrilla gardener
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ggwar.html

we need a gainesville cell for sure ... if you check out community boards you'll see that there's an orlando cell that is working with the homeless
this is brilliant action

guerrilla gardening facebook page fyi
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60989130755&v=info#/guerrillagardening?ref=ts