Hi, Folks!
Very interesting article from USA Today about the FDA's disagreement with
the proposed Oregon GE labeling law which is to be voted on by referendum
in the upcoming election.
Dorene
Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden
A mission
The one thing that makes community gardening different than any other kind
of good works is that you need to get recruit other folks to get into the
madness. You also have to learn to ask good, detailed questions.
Before we go further in answering your question, please let us know where
you
Hello,
I'm a member of the Columbia, SC chapter of City Year. While our primary
focus is on education and service learning with youth, we work on a host of
other service projects each year. One of the legacy projects we'd like to
start this year is the creation of a community garden in an
Some really fast suggestions, Sam:
1) Set an evening aside at your computer. Make a pot of coffee ( or whatever
adult beverage you drink) fill your printer with paper and read everything
on the American Community Gardening Association web page and links.
Seriously, the amount of free content on
Hi Folks,
I work for a nonprofit organization in Richmond, BC(Canada). Just to give you
some background: We are a nonprofit organization that finds people/farms that
have surplus fruit and vegetables and matches them with volunteers who have the
time and energy to harvest it. All of the
Erin wrote:
Hi Folks,
I work for a nonprofit organization in Richmond, BC(Canada). Just to give
you some background: We are a nonprofit organization that finds
people/farms that have surplus fruit and vegetables and matches them with
volunteers who have the time and energy to harvest it.
Erin,
Wow, you have several jobs on your plate here:
Your produce gleaning project is quite fine and sounds like it takes a great
deal of coordination to glean over 17,000 lbs of produce for your food bank
and community kitchens.
My question:
Are any of you guys farmers? Because, ideally
Hi,
I know I agree, it is alot on our plate. Basically I coordinator the fruit tree
sharing project, unfortunately I am only funded until March. The Board of
Directors is very keen on gaining their own land. It is a bit dreamy but
sometimes dreams come true,right! My job is to help them put
Paraphrasing Einstein, problems cannot be solved with the mindset that created
them.
Thus, how are we to have land that serves Earth and humans, when those who
own it want it to serve as a profit generator. In the end, can't really.
I encourage people to realize and promote the idea that not
Columbia should have an extension office from the land grant university. In
Michigan, Michigan State University Extension sponsors a program called
Master Gardeners which gives a certfiicate, and one of the requirements is
a certain number of community service hours. These master gardeners,
My name is Saleem Hue Penny of the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee, WI. I am
a
Congressional Hunger Fellow from Washington, DC, stationed in Milwaukee, WI
for 6 months developing a youth-employment/job-training model for the Fondy
Farmers' Market. Myself and my supervisor, Karen Harris, hope
Here's the web link to the NYC Council for the Environment Green Market
Program. http://www.cenyc.org/HTMLGM/maingm.htm
Sometimes trying to get a call through to Greenmarket is like dealing with
the post office ( that's because they're understaffed - but they're great
folks.) However, if you
Deadline for Submissions: February 21, 2003
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
CALL FOR PAPERS: JOINT ANNUAL MEETINGS OF AFHVS AND ASFS
The joint annual meetings of Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society
(AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) will
bring
Adam,
The reference that Gary sent has been a link on our website for about 6
months now ;-)
http://www.communitygarden.org/links/index.html#Studies
Laura
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Date: Wed, 16
In the state of Pennsylvania, the prisons were set up to sew uniforms, farm
food, make furniture, etc. for all the state facilities. Those included the
prisons, the state hospitals for the insane and state run orphanages. That
all ceased in the 1970's through 1982. The last prison farm was
This past spring, an elderly gentleman was out walking about when he strolled
into our garden. After greeting him (shaking hands, exchanging names, we do
that a lot in the south), he began talking about his past. He told me when he
was about 20 or so, the land our garden now occupies once
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