Garden plots are essential to keep Santa Barbara healthy is all ways. We have more than enough exercise opportunities and residents use them with avid, almost excessive, attention. We do not need more gym equipment. Plants provide nurturance to both our souls and our health, and not to overlook that they cool the earth, make oxygen, and eat CO2. To save the gardens is your responsibility as our representatives!
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Suzanne Brown
4 years ago
Please don't shrink the community garden. This garden is special to so many in our community and also desperately needed. If you love SB like we do you will do the right thing.
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cindy jackson
4 years ago
Please save the community gardens!
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Susie S
4 years ago
Save the garden!
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Susie S
4 years ago
Save the garden. Please reconsider your decision to increase unnecessary park areas by destroying essential community farming space. Santa Barbara has many, many parks. Why not rehabilitate some of the other parks such as Alameda Park. It is in desperate need of help and appears as a blight in the center of the city. Santa Barbara has benches and picnics tables everywhere that are seldom used, and the exercise equipment at the park on Cabrillo blvd. are a joke: clunky heaps of metal that are rarely used, except for maybe a handful of young children using them as climbing structures (dangerous!) Please note: I am not a gardener. We should be thanking the gardeners of twenty or so plots that contribute to the public garden rather than forcing them out; the entire community benefits from their labor in one way or another. A public garden adds to the beauty and character of Santa Barbara and to its overall appeal. Organic farming improves health, helps save money on groceries for those who share in its bounty (farmers probably pay dearly for the supplies), provides outdoor exercise, helps children learn about the environment and sustainable living, and is one of the most natural stress relievers there is.
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Kathy Wenger
4 years ago
Keep the garden plots please
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Julien H
4 years ago
Save it
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Lola Kramer
4 years ago
Please don’t reduce and remove our garden plots to enhance the park next-door — this can be done without ruining our plots. my sweet peas are blooming beautifully today.
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Elizabeth Kehoe
4 years ago
Don't take this important critical resource from the people!
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Anonymous
4 years ago
Save Yannonali
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Daniel Ray
4 years ago
As a Santa Barbara resident, I oppose this effort to reduce the size of the community garden and displace current gardeners
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Louis Andaloro
4 years ago
This is a valuable community resource. We need more community garden space, not less.
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Meredith Brace
4 years ago
Hard to believe our elected officials are considering reducing the size, not increasing it.
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Paul Crow
4 years ago
Save the garden!!!
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James Christie
4 years ago
Great garden that sustains some families!
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Megan Musolf
4 years ago
As a student at UCSB currently doing a project on urban farming and community gardens, I was extremely disappointed to learn about the plan to downsize Yanonali Garden. Community gardens provide a unique and important space for residents and help maintain a localized food system-- not to mention that they improve food security for those that grow their own food there! The only acceptable way the garden could be downsized is if the City provides an equal gardening opportunity for these displaced gardeners in a (very) nearby location.
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Margarita Miguel
4 years ago
We have our east side community come together working on our little pieces of gardening spaces for years and suddenly is taken away due to park renovations when the park has a lot of land not been Use wisely for years and our garden has been blooming for years not fair the city already has plenty of land to work on and want’s more by taking plots out. Not cool shame on them for trying to take over more land.
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Belinda Gibbs
4 years ago
Residents/gardeners should be given a choice
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Janine Perlman
4 years ago
There is enough public land in Santa Barbara, and in local council areas in the city of Melbourne, Australia, for long-standing Community Allotment Gardens to remain in situ. Implementation of waiting lists, need, & desire, (& other criteria if considered to be required for fairness) may be established - if not already existing - But this does not really seem to be the issues the city is concerned with.
If the city wants to attract more park users, it can do so *without* negatively affecting the long pre-established Community Garden.
Indeed, a thriving Community Garden *within* a public park area is an asset to that area for a multitude of reasons.
(Btw, accusing the Santa Barbara city planners of adopting a "communist" plan, detracts hugely from the commonsense reasons to ditch the Parks & Recreation plan.)
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Anonymous
4 years ago
This is a vital community resource that should not be decreased in size.
Garden plots are essential to keep Santa Barbara healthy is all ways. We have more than enough exercise opportunities and residents use them with avid, almost excessive, attention. We do not need more gym equipment. Plants provide nurturance to both our souls and our health, and not to overlook that they cool the earth, make oxygen, and eat CO2. To save the gardens is your responsibility as our representatives!
Please don't shrink the community garden. This garden is special to so many in our community and also desperately needed. If you love SB like we do you will do the right thing.
Please save the community gardens!
Save the garden!
Save the garden. Please reconsider your decision to increase unnecessary park areas by destroying essential community farming space. Santa Barbara has many, many parks. Why not rehabilitate some of the other parks such as Alameda Park. It is in desperate need of help and appears as a blight in the center of the city. Santa Barbara has benches and picnics tables everywhere that are seldom used, and the exercise equipment at the park on Cabrillo blvd. are a joke: clunky heaps of metal that are rarely used, except for maybe a handful of young children using them as climbing structures (dangerous!) Please note: I am not a gardener. We should be thanking the gardeners of twenty or so plots that contribute to the public garden rather than forcing them out; the entire community benefits from their labor in one way or another. A public garden adds to the beauty and character of Santa Barbara and to its overall appeal. Organic farming improves health, helps save money on groceries for those who share in its bounty (farmers probably pay dearly for the supplies), provides outdoor exercise, helps children learn about the environment and sustainable living, and is one of the most natural stress relievers there is.
Keep the garden plots please
Save it
Please don’t reduce and remove our garden plots to enhance the park next-door — this can be done without ruining our plots. my sweet peas are blooming beautifully today.
Don't take this important critical resource from the people!
Save Yannonali
As a Santa Barbara resident, I oppose this effort to reduce the size of the community garden and displace current gardeners
This is a valuable community resource. We need more community garden space, not less.
Hard to believe our elected officials are considering reducing the size, not increasing it.
Save the garden!!!
Great garden that sustains some families!
As a student at UCSB currently doing a project on urban farming and community gardens, I was extremely disappointed to learn about the plan to downsize Yanonali Garden. Community gardens provide a unique and important space for residents and help maintain a localized food system-- not to mention that they improve food security for those that grow their own food there! The only acceptable way the garden could be downsized is if the City provides an equal gardening opportunity for these displaced gardeners in a (very) nearby location.
We have our east side community come together working on our little pieces of gardening spaces for years and suddenly is taken away due to park renovations when the park has a lot of land not been Use wisely for years and our garden has been blooming for years not fair the city already has plenty of land to work on and want’s more by taking plots out. Not cool shame on them for trying to take over more land.
Residents/gardeners should be given a choice
There is enough public land in Santa Barbara, and in local council areas in the city of Melbourne, Australia, for long-standing Community Allotment Gardens to remain in situ. Implementation of waiting lists, need, & desire, (& other criteria if considered to be required for fairness) may be established - if not already existing - But this does not really seem to be the issues the city is concerned with. If the city wants to attract more park users, it can do so *without* negatively affecting the long pre-established Community Garden. Indeed, a thriving Community Garden *within* a public park area is an asset to that area for a multitude of reasons. (Btw, accusing the Santa Barbara city planners of adopting a "communist" plan, detracts hugely from the commonsense reasons to ditch the Parks & Recreation plan.)
This is a vital community resource that should not be decreased in size.