Community Garden, Grass-Fed Beef, and Other Profiles

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Marney Smith's community garden used biodynamic/French  intensive cultivation methods.
Marney Smith's community garden used biodynamic/French  intensive cultivation methods.
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Members of the Alpha Delta Fraternity chapter at Washburn University became deeply energy conscious when they realized they money they saved on energy costs could finance more partying.
Members of the Alpha Delta Fraternity chapter at Washburn University became deeply energy conscious when they realized they money they saved on energy costs could finance more partying.

In celebration of little-known MOTHER EARTH NEWS-type folks from all over.


Save the Children’s Community Garden

Marney Smith, staff environmentalist with the Save the Children foundation, has established a 250-square-foot demonstration plot for biodynamic/French intensive gardening projects next to the organization’s Westport, Connecticut headquarters. Her vegetable garden–which flourishes on a piece of land that was at one time blacktop driveway–has yielded a total of 1,090 pounds of produce over the past three years. Marny’s project has played an important part in Save the Children’s community development program too; staffers are currently being trained in “the method” in preparation for assignments as field instructors. In fact, the group just completed a program of teaching the low-energy/high-yield gardening techniques to the Carib Indians on the island of Dominica.

Among Ms. Smith’s many credits is a booklet entitled Growing Your Own Food, which contains a two-year record of the demonstration garden and a section describing ways to apply the techniques used there in communities throughout the world. Marny’s second book, Gardening With Conscience, is scheduled for publication sometime this summer and will be available from Seabury Press.–Carlie Quasnosky.

  • Published on Jul 1, 1981
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