"Well, I represent collective gardens".
In February 2012, the City Council voted to ban collective gardens and dispensaries for medical marijuana, which has been legal statewide since 1998.
As part of a strategy to enable recreational dispensaries to take over the market share held by "collective gardens" (Washington's term for medical grows and dispensaries), the new regulations would ban collective gardens from participating in farmers markets, prior to eventually phasing them out altogether.
(A faction at said Co-op is also trying to ban all Israeli imported goods. Why am I tempted to walk in and ask for the matzo aisle?) - Former members of the community garden collective down the street left after too much "lettuce drama".
The Soviet government set aside the plot of land on the Moscow River as a gardening collective in the 1950s.
At the end of 2007, 38 groups were active in the district, providing the following services for members: sharing of information and experiences during monthly meetings; obtaining ARVs for those who could not attend their consultations at health centre level; tracing of defaulters; and social support (through collective fields or gardening).
This collection of structural forms, contemporary rituals, immersive spaces, and gardens as collective constructs explains amid.cero9's interest in the architectural project as a form of knowledge and discovery.
There is also a monthly film group, the Poplar Peddlers cycle group, an environmental network, a music collective and some community gardens.
Alongside the city's satellite towns, large-scale commercial agriculture and "agro-recreational" plots owned by residents of Moscow (e.g., dachas, collective orchards, and vegetable gardens) extend 12 to 50 miles (20 to 80 km) from the city centre.
While we are primarily a social organization, most of the participants in our activities come away with some new knowledge or experience about gardening and/or collective action.
