Dear forum users! We are a group of students from the Technical University of Delft, in the Netherlands. We are doing research that involves gardening in HongKong. If you are a HongKong resident (or have been), we would like to ask you to fill in our survey. It should take about 10 minutes. The results of this survey will be anonymous. They will only be used in an internal presentation with students and tutors. You can review the results after the survey! Thanks in advance! The survey: http://www.my3q.com/home2/120/curver/gardening_hk.phtml

I'd be happy to help, but my experience is limited. Read a little more and you might find some of it useful. In Chicago, my neighbors and I are working with Neighbor-Space to turn a nearby vacant lot into a community garden. We're still in the planning stages and would like to get something in the ground this year. There are two longtime existing community gardens (run with the help of Neighbor-Space) not far from our plot and our little group has been talking to their leaders, who've been very helpful. You might try talking to them. Frankie Machine Garden - 1800 W. Haddon Ave., Marjorie Isaacson, marjiei@yahoo.com, Greenhouse Garden - 1100 N. Wood St., J.W. Glass, jwglass@bscichicago.com, ph. 312-498-3889, If you want some info on community gardens in the City of Chicago, talk to Margaret Weiner at Neighbor-Space. It's a non-profit citywide agency and she can probably find plenty of other people for you to talk to. They run about 55 community gardens in the city of Chicago and buy or lease the land, provide liability insurance, and provide some basic grant money along with a lot of good connections. info@neighbor-space.org 312-431-9406 Sounds like an interesting project. Good luck. Not that relevant, but check out the 30 homemade earth boxes I put on my garage roof. Here is a link that might be useful: Chicago's Neighbor-Space Organization

The survey was really too superficial. It seemed geared to people who shop in supermarkets for wine. That's OK, but they'd have little reason to shop online. The heaviest users of online wine sites are probably people who are looking for specific things that aren't widely available and who are willing to spend a lot of money. So a question like whether the look of the label affects a purchase is entirely meaningless. Nor is there a correlation between the number of times one purchases wine during a month and wine consumption, or a reason to imagine that wine purchases are spread thru the year. Most walk in wine purchases take place in November and December. Online that may or may not be true, depending on whether people are buying for the holidays or not. There's also the problem with shipping and most people don't want shipments May - Sept. Then there's the Bordeaux releases and the Rhone releases. Those months will show a spike in on-line purchases because if people want futures, they'll likely as not buy from someone in NYC, LA, Chicago, or DC.

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