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From YouTube: Blight Boot Camp #4: Adopt a Lot Session - 10/8/16
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A
Okay,
hi
I'm
Shelly
danko
day
I'm,
the
open
space
specialist
for
the
Department
of
City,
Planning
and
I
manage
the
adopt
a
lot
program.
So
I'm
going
to
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
the
adopt
a
lot
program.
First
of
all,
I've
got
to
figure
out
how
to
make
this
work.
Nope
there
we
go
so
the
adopt
a
lot
program
is
a
process
that
the
city
created
to
allow
people
to
access
city-owned
vacant
land.
A
We
have
a
lot
of
vacant
land
in
the
city
and
you've
probably
noticed
that
you're
probably
wondering
why
well
back
in
the
50s
60s
70s,
we
had
double
the
population
we
have
now
we
had
about
600,000
people.
Now
we
have
around
300,000
people,
so
people
abandon
their
properties
because
they
lost
their
jobs
and
at
the
steel
mill
and
other
industries,
and
they
moved
out
of
the
area,
so
they
abandoned
their
houses.
Their
houses
got
into
disrepair.
We
had
to
take
responsibility
for
these
properties
and
make
them
safe.
A
Some
of
them
are
falling
over,
so
we
had
to
demolish
them
and
that
left
a
lot
of
vacant
land,
the
cost
of
maintenance,
compromising
quality
of
life
and
the
reduced
property
values,
have
weakened
the
city's
tax
base
and
left
us
with
all
these
vacant
properties.
So
the
open
space
plan
that
was
produced
in
2013
recommended
that,
in
order
to
handle
some
of
these
vacancies
that
we
hire
an
open
space,
specialist
was
one
of
the
recommendations
and
then
also
create
this
path
to
accessing
city-owned
vacant
land.
A
That
was
very
clear
for
residents
and
more
streamlined
than
the
previous
process.
The
previous
process,
which
gtech
has
experienced
quite
a
bit.
They
did
a
few
projects
on
city-owned
land
and
you
would
enter
to
through
one
of
the
city
departments.
So
you'd
come
in
through
the
law
department,
or
maybe
you
knew
somebody
in
real
estate
or
you'd
talk
to
somebody
at
the
mayor's
office
and
then
you'd
create
a
packet
of
information
and
present
it
to
that
department
and
then
they'd,
say
that's
great,
but
we
have
to
go
to
this
department.
A
So
then,
you'd
be
sent
to
the
next
department
have
to
create
another
packet
of
information
and
go
through
another
process
and
then
there's
City
Council
and
then
there's
art,
Commission
there's
the
union's
permission.
You
had
to
get
to
a
to
be
doing
work
on
city
land,
so
it
was
a
very
long
process.
Sometimes
it
would
take
from
nine
to
twelve
months
so
streamlining
that
was
really
important
to
be
able
to
activate
a
lot
of
our
vacant
land.
A
So
we
created
the
vacant
lot
toolkit
now.
The
macula
toolkit
is
a
helpful
resource
for
private
land
and
public
land.
It
tells
you
basic
ideas
about
what
to
look
for
in
a
property.
If
you
want
to
grow
food,
if
you
want
to
grow
flowers,
if
you
want
to
do
all
kinds
of
projects,
art
projects
or
what
have
you,
but
it
also
is
a
how-to
guide
for
our
adopt
a
lot
program
and
our
adopt
a
lot
program
allows
if
you're
looking
at
City
land.
The
adopt
a
lot
program
is
that
streamlined
process.
A
I
was
telling
you
about,
and
we
have
two
options:
there's
a
license,
which
is,
if
you're
one
person-
and
you
want
to
do
something
on
one
lot.
You
want
to
garden
either
flower
or
food
garden
on
one
lot
for
one
season,
you
can
get
the
license,
which
is
kind
of
the
more
sophisticated
version
of
what
used
to
be
our
garden
waiver,
which
is
a
whole
other
thing,
but
that
was
something
that
real
estate
had
to
sort
of
fulfill
the
need
at
the
time.
A
But
now
with
this
license
program,
which
is
a
lot
more
solid
and
really
gives
you
legal
access
and
then
there's
the
lease,
which
is
a
little
more
extensive.
If
you
have
multiple
lots
or
if
there's
a
group
of
people
or
some
people
are
doing
projects
with
like
a
summer
program
with
kids
that
want
a
garden
on
a
lot
that
would
be
in
the
lease
program
and
then
we
have
an
option
for
people
who
want
to
produce
and
sell
what
they
grow
on
city
land
have
a
market
stand
on
the
site
and
that's
the
market
Stanley's.
A
A
The
only
things
that
are
required
for
a
license?
Are
everyone
has
to
do
a
soil
test,
so
soil
test
results
are
the
first
thing
you
have
to
do
when
you
apply
to
adopt
a
lot,
and
all
you
need
to
give
us
is
a
project
description
and
a
simple
site
plan.
This
is
not
an
example
of
a
simple
site
plan.
This
is
a
more
elaborate
site
plan
that
someone
did,
but
a
drawing,
essentially
or
like
a
sketch
of
what
you're
going
to
do
is
enough
to
tell
us
what
to
expect
the
adopt
a
lot.
A
Lease
is
a
little
more
extensive.
It's
a
one-year
lease
initially
with
three
renewal
years.
You
can
do
flower,
food
or
rain
gardens
to
capture
stormwater
insurance
is
required
for
the
lot,
because
there's
additional
liability
when
you
are
able
to
do
more
and
have
groups
of
people
and
it's
multiple
lots
and
you
can't
sell
what
you
grow
on
the
land.
You
can't
have
a
market
stand
on
the
land.
Unless
you
have
the
market
Stanley's,
like
I,
said
that's
$25
and
you
can
sell
up
to
ten
thousand
dollars
worth
of
produce.
A
A
You
can
pick
up
before
you
leave
here
and
it's
also
on
our
website
and
I
think
everybody
you
received
a
bookmark
when
they
walked
in.
But
essentially
you
have
to
give
us
tell
us
the
story
of
your
project
provide
a
site
plan.
It
helps
you
to
think
through
the
materials
list
and
the
budget
and
the
maintenance
that
you
have
to
do
on
your
lot.
You
give
us
existing
photos,
because
that
satisfies
one
of
the
department's
requirements
to
help
make
sure
they
have
sort
of
before
shots
and
also
shots
of
utilities.
A
A
Then
it
can
go
through
the
process
very
streamlined.
These
are
the
things
that
are
not
allowed
their
signs,
but
just
general
signs.
We
have
assigned
template
that
you
can
actually
have
this
template
sign
that
we've
allowed
on
our
sites
on
our
land
no
play
equipment,
because
that
adds
to
the
liability
art
by
an
artist,
because
then
that
would
have
to
go
through
art
commission
memorials
fire
pits.
Pizza
ovens
will
never
be
allowed
on
city
land
you'll
have
to
buy
it
first
and
stages
or
performance
areas.
B
So
this
just
gives
you
an
idea
of
what
home.
What
looks
like
so
Homewood
is
one
square
mile.
Does
everyone
know
where
Homewood
is
yes,
okay,
far
east
and
almost
the
last
neighborhood
outside
right
before
you
head
outside
the
city?
So
this
is
a
current
map
of
homeward.
We
worked
with
our
partners
at
pitt
university
center
for
social
and
urban
research
to
develop
this
map.
We
did
an
on-the-ground
foot
survey
in
2014
to
assess
where
the
occupied
properties
are
where
the
vacant
properties
are,
and
the
vacant
lots
are.
So
this
map
is
actually
pretty
astounding.
B
B
So
well.
So
this
map
is
what
we
used
the
data
that
we
collected
for.
So
we
had
gone
around
and
done
this
survey.
We
had
finally
gotten
a
handle
on
okay,
here's
what
the
neighborhood
looks
like,
but
now
what
are
we
going
to
do
with
it?
So
we
developed
a
kind
of
a
non-traditional
planning
process,
usually
in
neighborhoods
like
Bloomfield
Garfield,
Oakland
hilltop.
B
The
neighborhood
has
almost
been
forgotten
about
over
the
last
several
decades,
so
we
knew
that
we
had
to
kind
of
rethink
how
we
are
going
to
engage
the
neighborhood
so
instead
of
doing
a
neighborhood
wide
planning
process,
all
at
once,
we
broke
the
neighborhood
up
into
chunks,
which
we
call
clusters.
So
we
developed
9
clusters
throughout
the
neighborhood
and
we
did
a
series
of
three
meetings
to
vision
with
the
residents
who
live
right
in
that
immediate
area,
and
this
is
the
final
product.
B
So
it
took
us
about
18
months,
which
is
a
little
bit
longer
than
most
planning
processes.
Also
what
we
talked
about,
what
different
types
of
land
use
could
be
options
in
the
future,
so
you'll
see
like
little
pink
rectangles,
which
show
new
houses.
You'll,
see
green,
extended
rectangles,
which
show
green
spaces
up
on
the
very
top
right.
There's
like
some
cloud
looking
things.
There
is
also
like
one
of
the
recommendations.
B
So
let
me
just
make
sure
okay,
so
one
of
the
things
that
was
kind
of
a
low-hanging
fruit
item
for
implementation
of
the
plan
that
I
just
showed.
You
was
green
space,
so
people
said
that
they
wanted
to
see
new
houses.
They
wanted
to
see
maybe
two
dozen
houses
built
in
a
particular
area.
Well,
we
know
that
that's
a
more
long-term
process
right,
you're
gonna
have
to
raise
funding,
get
developers,
interest
acquire
the
properties,
do
construction,
so
that
was
kind
of
some
of
the
more
long-term.
B
But
some
of
the
immediate,
more
tangible
items
that
we
could
do
were
the
green
space
implementation.
So
right
around
this
time
that
the
plan
finished
obb
got
funding
through
the
state
to
do
implementation
of
the
plan.
So
we
selected
some
partners.
Some
were
within
the
community
that
are
nonprofits
also
doing
work
in
the
neighborhood,
and
some
are
intermediaries
like
rebuilding,
Together,
Pittsburgh
and
gtech.
So
this
particular
project
was
one
that
we
did
last
year
in
our
first
year
of
implementation,
where
we
use
the
adopt
a
lot
process.
B
There
is
a
resident
Miss,
Mary
Savage,
who
is
in
her
ATS
lived
in
homewood,
her
whole
life,
and
she
has
been
every
summer.
Planting
flowers
on
vacant,
lots
somewhere
close
to
a
dozen
vacant
lots
and
she
cares
for
them.
She
usually
gets
some
volunteers
high
school
volunteers
to
come
out
and
she's
done
this
every
year
for
decades,
and
so
we
were
really
concerned
about
how
the
adopt
a
lot
process
might
change
that
for
her,
because
she's
never
gotten
City
permission
before
they've
never
noticed
she
was
doing
this
before.
B
So
we
were
just
kind
of
skeptical
I'm
like
how
can
we
provide
technical
assistance
to
her
to
go
through
this
process,
make
sure
she's
legally
doing
it
and
as
an
organization
kind
of
be
the
ones
supporting
it,
because
it's
a
lot
of
paperwork
and
like
managing
communication
right
where
she
doesn't
have
a
computer.
So
it
was
great
that
OPP
was
in
the
neighborhood
and
able
to
help
kind
of
facilitate
the
application
process,
so
we
applied
for
I
think
maybe
five
four
or
five
of
her
lots.
B
Do
you
remember
Shelley
was
it
so
we
did
apply
for
all
of
them.
Yeah
yeah,
yeah
yeah,
so
it
was
great.
We
were
able
to
work
directly
with
the
city
to
actually
compile
the
applications.
We
worked
with
gtech
to
do
the
designs
which
till
he
showed
you
is
one
of
the
necessary
components
and
then
again
worked
with
gtech
to
actually
purchase
the
flowers
and
plant
them.
B
After
that,
this
was
a
little
bit
more
involved
of
a
project
clearly,
and
this
is
a
really
interesting
project,
because
the
Lots,
so
this
is
right
across
from
an
elementary
school,
there
used
to
be
two
abandoned
houses.
Here
we
worked
with
the
residents
to
advocate
2311
city's
non-emergency
hotline
to
get
them
torn
down,
but
then
they
were
just
turning
into
severely
overgrown
vacant
lots.
B
So
the
residents
really
said
that
they
wanted
a
play
space
for
the
kids,
since
it's
right
across
from
the
elementary
school,
so
the
city
owned
the
lots
and
the
URA
had
a
hold
on
them,
which
is
a
really
interesting
status
for
lots
to
have
so
we
had
to
kind
of
work
through
that
process
and
figure
out
who
do
we
talk
to
who's
the
appropriate
party
to
contact,
so
we
did
actually
go
through
the
adopt
a
lot
process.
B
So
this
parklet
was
finished
and
I
guess
just
a
couple
months
ago
now
and
it
it
was
a
learning
experience,
because
one
of
the
things
I
will
tell
you
is
that
when
you're
doing
these
projects,
anyone
who
is
working
on
a
vacant
lot,
you
will
learn
that,
because
the
amount
of
abandonment
that
has
happened
in
the
city
as
a
whole,
a
lot
of
the
houses
have
been
demolished.
So
when
you
are
doing
projects
like
this,
there
is
an
entire
house
underneath
that
ground.
So
our
budget
didn't
change.
B
We
still
had
to
do
the
project
with
the
amount
of
fundraising
that
we
had.
But
meanwhile
we
are
digging
up
cinder
blocks
and
two
by
fours
and
bricks,
so
many
bricks
that
were
all
underneath
the
ground
and
we
actually
started
with.
We
had
the
residents
who
are
working
on
these
blocks
with
us.
We
were
digging
out
by
shovels
and
it
was
a
complete
and
total
nightmare.
I
mean
these
are
elderly
residents,
most
of
them
65
or
older,
and
so
we
were
able
to
get
some
machinery
out.
B
There
was
another
project
going
on
we're
working
on
with
gtech,
and
so
it's
expedited
tremendously
then,
but,
like
I,
said,
that's
one
thing
to
take
into
consideration
when
you're
doing
these
adopt
a
lot.
There
are
tons
of
vacant
lots
as
we
all
know,
but
you
just
have
to
be
mindful
of
what
what's
in
the
ground
beneath
those
which
leads
to
my
next
point:
soil
testing.
So
we
never
knew.
This
was
an
issue
in
homewood.
B
We
all
have
heard
of
Flint's
and
now
the
city
and
the
issues
with
her
with
blood
and
water,
and
but
one
of
the
things
we
hadn't
been
super
cognizant
of
is
led
in
soil.
We
had
done
a
project,
our
junior
green
Corps
program
with
gtech
three
years
ago,
I
think
where
we
planted
the
city's
largest
sunflower
lot,
but
it
was
more
for
a
demonstration
not
so
much
for
soil
remediation
right.
B
We
were
then
the
next
two
seasons.
The
junior
greencore
wanted
to
plant
an
urban
garden,
so
we
did
plant
sunflowers
on
that
lot
to
remediate
the
soil.
We
actually
had
to
do
two
growing
seasons
of
sunflowers
to
remediate
the
soil,
but,
like
I
said,
those
were
really
the
only
soil
tests
we
had
ever
done
in
the
neighborhood
until
the
adopt
a
lot
process
dropped
and
we
were
required
to
do
it
so
you'll
see
on
the
left
hand,
side
here
from
umass.
The
ideal
level
is
less
than
twenty
two
parts
per
million
okay.
B
B
That
particular
lot
that
had
two
hundred
and
fifty
parts
per
million
was
a
lot
that
Miss
savage
had
been
planting
flowers
on
for
the
last
several
years,
so
really
a
cause
for
concern,
and
because
now
the
adopt
a
lot
required,
soil
sampling
were
able
to
say
actually
that's
not
a
safe
place
for
you
to
be
planting
flowers.
Let's
find
another
lot
for
you
to
do
so.
B
C
You
for
all
for
being
here,
I'm,
attila
choke,
I
and
I
just
think
was
in
June
that
we
finished
signing
the
contract
with
the
adaptil
at
lease,
and
the
title
is
way
over
here,
thus
title:
the
title
is
embrace
your
weirdness
and
adopt
a
lot
and
I
I
I
call
it
that
and
I
showed
it
to
my
wife
in
her
first
words,
I,
don't
like
that!
It's
like
that's
good,
that's
a
good
title!
C
Then,
because
it's
sort
of
I'm
sorry
shocks,
you
shocks
you
a
little
bit
and
the
reason
I
call
that
that
is
because
every
time
I
told
somebody
they
give
me
this
look
like
why
and
I
talked
to
Shelly
about
it
a
little
bit.
I
get
this
look.
Why
would
you
do
that?
And
in
hazelwood
I
did
you
know,
don't
you
didn't
you
afraid,
and
things
like
that
and
I
was
like?
Well,
that's
when
I'm
I,
guess
I'm
I
know
I'm
doing
something
good
when
people
start
questioning
that
you
were
weird
so
on
that
door.
C
Why
did
I
get
into
this
so
I'm
a
I
T
project
manager
by
day
at
CMU
and
every
other
time
I
deal
with
native
plants?
I
love
native
plants
native
gardening,
rain,
gardens
beer
brewing.
There's
that
that
sort
of
trend
I
like
to
dig,
do
things
with
my
hand,
I'm
also
a
Penn
State
Master
Gardener
a
tree
tender.
It
just
just
wanted
to
bring
these
up
as
not
as
an
advertisement,
but
there's
this
trend
with
me
of
how
did
I
end
up
in
IT
project
management
when
every
other
time.
C
C
That
relationship
will
build
even
further
that
was
supposed
to
show
up.
At
the
same
time
I
forgot
about
it.
That's
just
an
example
of
a
the
light
test
that
you
see
here.
That's
actually
not
mine,
but
what
I'd
like
to
cover
next
is
the
application
overview.
So
the
lot
that
I
adopted
is
on
flowers
avenue
here
in
hazelwood.
If
you
follow.
Second
avenue
is
one
street
before
hazelwood
avenue,
I
live
in
Greenfield
right
on
beechwood
Boulevard,
nice
busy
street
I
have
a
nice
shaded
backyard
and
a
small
front
yard.
So
it's
not
much.
C
Space
for
gardening
I
grew
up
as
on
the
farm
in
Hungary,
when
I
left
for
the
US
Canada
a
long
story
in
late,
80s
and
I
wanted
to
have
something
where
I
can
express
that
can
feel
more
grounded
with
this
kind
of
stuff
and
I
wanted
a
lot.
So
I
knew
somebody
in
hazelwood
here,
I
found
out
about
this
lot,
but
I
think
gtech
covered
also
a
lot
of
opportunities
of
how
you
can
find
out
about
making
lot
and
how
to
go
about
it.
C
Shelly
touched
on
the
application
process,
so
I
filled
out
that
former
application,
not
the
one
that's
here.
It
was
a
really
long
application
and
I
felt
like
I
than
the
park
and
recreations
story
a
little
bit,
because
it
was
a
really
really
long
form
and
I
thought.
Oh,
my
gosh
I
mean
I,
do
planning
for
a
living
so
to
speak
during
the
day,
and
this
is
a
lot
to
go
through
for
a
resident
and
so
I
went
through
it
and
I
sent
it
back,
and
this
is
nothing
against
and
son.
C
I
found
out
loud,
oh
there's,
a
new
application.
Okay,
that's
cool,
so
I
filled
out
the
new
application,
which
was
much
easier
because
it's
really
well
done
it's
to
the
point,
only
what's
required,
you
have
to
fill
out
and
I.
Don't
think
it's
that
hard
to
complete
and
I
have
to
say
the
whole
process
and
I
will
I
mentioned
it's
not
because
again,
shelly
is
here,
but
it
was
really
painless.
C
C
If
anybody's
interested
I
did
bring
ten
copies
of
my
actual
application,
what
I
filled
out,
including
the
LED
test,
the
drawings
that
I
did
and
I
brought
ten
copies
of
the
resources
as
well,
including
the
insurance
contacts
and
other
contacts
that
I
have
found
useful
or
needed
along
the
way?
But
what
essentially
the
application
is
like
a
project
one.
C
You
know
you
define
your
project
goal
for
me,
the
project
goal
was
again
embracing
my
weirdness
I
wanted
to
have
a
Penn,
State,
pollinator,
certified
garden,
and
that's
what
you
saw
in
the
front
page
I
think
as
I
work
through
this
I
want
to
take
it
beyond
that,
especially
as
I
started
talking
to
community
members
and
I'm
the
larger
Pittsburgh
area,
including
burg
bees.
They
mentioned
that.
Oh.
C
C
This
fall
I'll,
be
starting
them
at
home
and
I'll
be
planting
them
out
the
garden
eventually
and
even
now,
I
started
looking
around
for
people
who
know
garden
design
so
instead
of
just
planting
them
in
Nice
rows
and
raising
their
plans,
I
want
to
incorporate
that
land
designing
to
that
land.
So
there's
a
space
forming
going
for
sitting
down
that
kind
of
stuff.
So
that's
something
I
will
be
looking
for.
But
again
it's
just
a
project
plan.
Ok,
I!
C
Guess
it's
just,
but
you
have
to
think
what
is
your
goal
so
define
your
goal
and
define
start
breaking
down
into
small
steps,
how
you're
going
to
get
there?
So
again,
the
application
was
very
I.
Think
straight
forward.
I
took
some
photos.
The
hard
part
for
me
personally
was
drawing
the
plan
to
scale
because
I
tend
to
overdo
things.
That's
just
me
I
get
into
it.
I'm
like
oh,
my
gosh.
This
is
really
complex
and
I
overcomplicated
for
myself
and
after
I
spent
I,
don't
know
days
some
or
hours
on
it.
C
I
step
back,
sell
forget
this
is
really
not
that
hard.
What
they're
really
asking
for
we
had
to
it
covers
the
maintenance
plan,
how
who
is
going
to
mow
the
lawn?
You
have
to
list
all
the
people
who
will
be
helping
you
so
far,
I
have
to
and
a
local
helper
who's
going
to
move
the
lawn
cleanup,
the
side
that
kind
of
stuff
my
actual
project
plan.
C
The
end
goal
is
to
make
its
pollinator
friendly,
certified
I.
Think
I'd
like
to
go
for
that.
Probably
next
summer
next
fall
given
the
planting
will
be
put
in
place
in
the
spring.
So
the
first
step
that
I
outlined
in
my
project
meant
was
clean
up
the
site
so
so
far,
I
spent
the
last
few
months
being
there
on
weekends
or
sometimes
during
the
week
after
work
cleaning
it
up
and
some
of
the
other
presenters
have
touched
on
as
well
I.
For
some
reason,
I
was
digging
and
it
was
a
huge
roof.
C
C
But
part
of
the
certification
process
is
to
provide
pollinators
with
a
place
to
hide.
So
that's
actually
provides
that
purpose.
So
I,
don't
think
it
looks
bad.
If
I
get
complaints
about
it,
we
can
deal
with
it.
It's
further
back,
it's
not
as
visible,
and
it's
just
a
large
pile
of
deteriorating
wood,
and
whenever
you
move
that
you
actually
find
that
there's
a
lot
of
critters
and
bugs
that
are
just
enjoying
it,
so
so
that
works
for
it
really
well.
The
the
other
part
was,
of
course,
the
materials.
C
The
plans
and
the
budget
starting
from
seed,
has
the
advantage
that
it's
cheaper.
It
will
take
me
longer
so
that
covers
the
budget
in
is
right
now,
I'm
pretty
much
hundred
percent
self-financing.
Yet
it
has
caused
a
few
hundred
dollars
so
far.
I
know
it
might
be
a
different
problem
and
other
organizations
may
need
a
different
approach
so
for
I
can
do
this.
C
I
have
ideas
of
how
I
can
raise
money
for
this
in
the
future
and
in
terms
of
materials,
I
have
access
to
rain
barrels
and
if
any
of
you
are
interested
in
those
50
gallon
rain
barrels,
while
they're,
not
rain
barrels,
they're,
useful
fish,
emulsion
and
other
fertilizers
I
have
access
to
a
number
of
those
through
crotch
man.
Farm
I
just
have
to
bring
it
home.
Sometimes
I've
been
two
or
three
of
them
home.
C
In
a
minivan
and
the
kids
were
sitting
with
me,
and
they
said
it
really
stinks
by
the
time
you
got
home
because
it's
used
for
fertilizer.
So
if
anybody
needs
that
I
go
there,
occasionally
I
can
bring
some
home
and
you
take
it
and
you
can
retrofit
it
the
soil
test.
We
talked
about
also
I
get
two
options
for
just
move
forward
a
bit.
C
There
are
two
options
for
the
soil
test:
one
is
the
University
of
Massachusetts,
which
was
the
previous
presentation
and
I'll
have
their
contact
for
you
as
well,
and
then
there's
the
Penn
State
University's.
The
soil
test
as
well.
University
of
massachusetts
includes
the
LED
test
for
a
little
bit
more
or
I
forgot
the
cost
of
those
tests
now,
but
it
was
just
nice
if
you
give
you
instructions
on
how
to
do
it.
C
I
would
like
to
use
it
as
an
educational
opportunity,
but
it's
they
require
less
watering.
So
I
don't
have
to
worry
about
the
watering
as
much
I
don't
have
to
worry
about
the
if
there
was
too
much
let
in
the
soil,
for
example-
and
this
was
the
hard
part
for
me-
this
is
the
part
I
tend
to
overthink
that.
C
So,
if
you
go
to
the
allegheny
county
website,
that's
the
actual
lot
that
big
one
there
that
says
Pittsburgh
right
there.
So
as
you
can
see
it's
l-shaped
and
as
soon
as
it
enters
the
L
part.
That's
a
heavily
wooded
area
looks
like
there
were
some
steps
going
up
to
hazelwood
Avenue
before
if
you
go
further
than
up
up
so
it's
interesting,
but
so
that's
where
you
can
get
the
measurement
of
the
lot.
If
you
zoom
in
further
enough,
it
will
give
you
the
measurement
of
the
lot.
C
Then
I
bought
an
engineer's
rule
or
an
architect's
ruler,
because
I
have
to
fit
that
on
to
an
eight
and
a
half
by
11
paper,
and
that's
the
part
I
think
I
was
overthinking
is
like.
Oh,
my
gosh,
like
how
much
detail
today
need
here.
I
just
started
drawing
and
then
itself
was
a
learning
experience.
So
I
ended
up
with
something
like
that
right
now
that
mirrors
pretty
much
what
it
original.
The
previous
outline
of
the
lot
was.
C
I
plan
to
use
that
initially
to
get
the
seedling
started
and
eventually,
when
I
find
somebody
to
work
with
on
the
terms
of
the
design
because
I'm
I
have
ideas,
but
I'm
not,
I
don't
think
I'm
the
best
garden
designer
in
terms
of
looks
yet
that's
something
that
I'd
like
to
focus
on
the
insurance
part
was
really
interesting.
C
I
when
I
needed,
the
insurance
I
called
up
my
local
nation
vine
and
said
hi
I'd
like
to
get
insurance
for
the
sloth
and
they
said
sure
we
can
give
that
to
you
for
eight
hundred
and
sixty
dollars
a
year,
and
that
was,
after
all,
those
questions
that
you
see
on
there
I
mean
they
couldn't
they
had
no
concept
with
why
I
would
want
to
do
it
on
a
lot?
That's
not
mine,
and
it
belongs
to
the
city.
C
Being
involved
in
penn
state
and
the
Master
Gardener
program
was
helpful
in
the
way
that
I
had
ran
into
Marissa
from
grow
Pittsburgh,
and
she
mentioned
that.
Well,
you
know
they
have
started
a
conversation
with
an
insurance
company
on
establishing
an
insurance
program
that
covers
this
kind
of
adopt
a
lot
lease
and
this
kind
of
access
to
the
land
and
so
I've
contacted
Leslie
up
next
to
your
insurance
and
that
took
about
eight
months
even
for
her
to
negotiate
a
deal,
and
she
called
me
occasionally
and
said.
Are
you
still
interested?
C
I
said
I
am,
and
I
would
occasionally
email
shall
I
sing
I'm
still
working
on
it.
I
mean
at
that
point.
I
thought
I
would
be
just
written
off
because
who
takes
eight
months
to
get
insurance,
but
it
worked
out
and
she
said:
would
you
take
it
for
two
hundred
dollars
like
well
I?
Guess
it's
better
than
860.
So
eventually
we
agreed
on
150
dollars
a
year.
The
rest
of
the
process
was
super
easy
because
that
was
accepted
acceptable
to
the
city
as
well.
C
C
I'm
sure
there
are
other
ones
so
I
think
that
would
have
been
helpful
for
me
to
know
if
there
were
other
insurance
programs
available
something's
along
the
way,
but
I'm
glad
the
discus
worked
out
and
if
anybody's
interested
I
have
I
have
other
contact
information
up
there
for
the
insurance,
its
Leslie
Sherwin
I've
emailed
her
she'll
be
happy
to
hear
from
you.
She
mentioned
that
the
more
people
sign
up
the
cheaper,
the
cost
will
be
so.
C
The
hundred
and
fifty
dollars
is
the
max
I
may
have
paid
for
this
year
next
year
and
for
you
it
might
be
cheaper.
The
I
call
this
page
support
instead
of
resources,
and
the
reason
is
that
the
more
I
work
in
the
garden,
the
very
relationship
I
built
with
the
neighbors-
and
it
was
really
mind
opening
occasionally
I
needed
electricity
to
assemble
something
or
cut
something
and
there's
a
HUD
home
next
to
the
garden
and
CLE.
C
The
ladies
renovating
her
house
that
she
grew
up
on
flowers,
Avenue
and
she
grew
up
in
that
house.
So
she's
renovating
it
once
the
rent,
without
eventually
so
I
just
covered
the
insurance
and
the
soil
test.
As
well
and
that's
the
end
of
my
presentation,
there
is
my
email,
my
name,
and
that
picture
is
actually
some
of
the
garlic
that
I've
been
digging
up.
There's
a
whole
eight
foot
by
14
feet.