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Jacksonville Community Garden Expo
Saturday, I attended the Jacksonville Community Garden Expo with my girlfriend, Mary Elizabeth (a native and resident of Jacksonville) and my niece. (Mary Elizabeth coordinates the garden at the Sanctuary on 8th Street, an after school program in Jacksonville's Springfield neighborhood.) The event was hosted by the Garden at Jackson Square Community Garden, coordinated by the Sulzbacher Center.F...
A Note on Organizing or the Way I've been looking at things recently
Over the past year, I've received a good-handful of emails from well-meaning folks that want to contribute to Tallahassee's food movement. The messages go something like this: "I'm a young person excited about growing my own food and am looking for a way to give back. I'm thinking that I'd like to start a community garden for a ________ [insert: poor, Southside, Frenchtown or other lower...
Table-Top Herb Garden + links & links
This is a quick post to share a picture of my most recent project in addition to some links to stories, a conference, programs, organizations, resources, a magazine, etc that all relate to the urban ag/food security/community garden food movement.First, a picture of one (of two) table-top herb garden's I completed on Friday for Mary Louise:Next, a series of links:From NYT Magazine: "Field Report:...
A Growing Movement
Back home from the American Community Gardening Association annual conference in Atlanta, GA.Below you can see our Tallahassee Delegation (left to right): Qasima P. Boston, Robbie Estevez, Nathan Ballentine, Joyce Brown (to see Joyce's reflections on the trip, here's her blog), Thomas Lynch (below), Mark Tancig (above), and Merlin John Baptiste. After a day and a half of the conference-- where we...