Some days we get to live the life we imagined.Yesterday, I had the privilege of presenting on Community Gardening at the Second Harvest of the Big BendAnnual Agency Conference. Of the 150 or so agency partners (largely food pantry coordinators and volunteers), 35 folks attended my workshop. For starters, to demonstrate the inseparable link in my world-view between gardening and food security, I...
Saturday morning, the Southwood Community Garden Leadership Team joined hands for its first mini-workday of the installation. In addition to measuring and marking the perimeter with stakes & strings, the team spray painted the future outline of the first 20 (of approx. 50) 4x8 raised bed plots.Amidst the other work, I conducted a mini lady's workshop on power tools and raised bed construction in...
Over the July 4th holiday, I made it to Asheville to visit a friend from college. While in town, I snuck by Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church where I used to serve as a youth adviser. Rumor had it, they'd started an amazing garden smack-dab in the middle of their front lawn. Rumor was true.
They have ten 5ft beds that reach 60 to 100ft. In other words, they've got a 4000sq.ft. food garden in...
This past weekend, I made it down to Apalachicola. My true destination was the beach, but I'm a community garden junkie. What can I say? Sunday afternoon Mary Elizabeth and I swung by their City Square Community Garden. It's gorgeous. Take a look. (PS, this amazing lady offered us cucumbers and zucchini from her plot.) Kudos to Apalachicola.
Sometimes I feel like a broken record. Nonetheless, I'm going to say it again: there is SO much good work being done locally as it relates to the food movement, as it relates to building a resilient community-based food system*. When I consider highlighting great work and to whom to offer thanks, I am often at a loss because I don't know where to start.Allow me to chronicle the list by memory...