Milwaukee's Growing Power City Farm Will Be the Site of This Workshop Here's the official Growing Power site, which has more information.
"Growing Your Community Food System: From the Ground Up" Workshop April 19 & 20 *There are still openings available for those wishing to participate in this successful program* (Scholarships are also available) Growing Power, Inc in conjunction with The USDA Risk Management Agency SARE: Sustainable Ag. Research and Education *"Growing Your Community Food System"* is an intensive, hands on training workshop offering diverse groups the opportunity to learn, plan, develop, operate, and sustain community food projects. Project participants leave the workshop with improved skills that they can take back into their communities and pass on to others. These workshops are for both rural and urban projects. These workshops put organizations, projects, and food producers in touch with each other to help build collaborations and long-term sustainable partnerships. *COST: $300 (cost includes 5 meals) for the Saturday and Sunday workshop.* *Limited scholarships are available.* Workshop Sessions include: - Aquaculture/Aquaponics - Bee Keeping - Community Project Design - Living Biological Worm Systems - Ethnic Marketing & Distribution - Animal Health For more Growing Power news, this informal webplatform organized by a Growing Power Board Member(that's me), is helpful... *http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage On this page…* 1. "Growing Your Community Food System: From the Ground Up" Workshop April 19 & 20<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc1> 2. "Human Urine As A Safe, Inexpensive Fertilizer For Food Crops" ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2007)<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc2> 3. Young Intellectuals and Activists Becoming Organic Farmers<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc3> 4. Ideas for S. African Horticulturist Seeking Help/Ideas Setting Up Community Garden<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc4> 1. 4.1 Response<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc5> 5. "Growing Power 2008 Highlights"<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc6> 6. GROWING POWER: 2007 Basic and Inspiring Facts<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc7> 7. Some Green Roof News From Our London Farming Friends<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc8> 8. Report From Macedonia Farmers' Visit to Growing Power<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage#toc9> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080404/763304d3/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
