Welcome to The Parking Space Garden. The idea for this blog came to me as part of my participation in The Great Turning group within the Shoreline Unitarian-Universalist Church in Shoreline, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. The Great Turning is all about moving from a cultural theme of Empire to a cultural theme of Earth Community. For us, one element of this turning is eating foods grown closer to where we live, even on the same block where we live. Many of us do not have the space for a garden, but there are spaces the size of one car parking space in abundance in our cities. In some cases, these are actual car parking spaces which may no longer be needed if more of us also use public transportation, or they may be surplus car parking spaces created by some over zealous city planner or developer. They may just be a weedy space somewhere in our neighborhood.
Wherever an eight by sixteen foot space can be found, this blog is dedicated to helping you make the most of it to feed yourself, your family and your friends.
In the case of Shoreline Unitarian-Universalist church, we plan to sacrifice one of our 65 parking spaces to make a demonstration parking space garden. We will be reporting here on how we are doing this, what we are planting and how much we are harvesting. By this time in 2009, we hope to have some definitive data on what can be done with a parking space garden in the Maritime Northwest.
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