(A late-night email to a local co-worker in the Food Movement)Wow, It's roll-time. I am amazed every day by this blossoming movement of which we are part. This morning I met with the campus chaplain--visiting-- from my Alma mater. She tells me that her aspiration (at 44) is to go back to school or apprentice under a food activist because she wants to be integral to feeding people; she tells me...
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"2011 Thriving, Beyond Sustainability Workshop"Featuring Growing Powers’ Will AllenDATE: March 06, 2011HOURS: Noon- 6:30pmLOCATION: FAMU Center of Viticulture and Small Fruit 6505 East Mayhan Drive (Hwy 90)Tallahassee. FAMU StateWide Small Farm Programs, local small farmers, and a coalition of sustainable food advocates including Tallahassee Sustainability Group, Man...
Last June, I got an email from Marcy Rosner, a native of Tallahassee that had been-- for a handful of years-- living in Oakland. She was back home for the month and hoped to find some volunteer opportunities with community gardens or some other volunteer urban ag project in Tallahassee. Eventually she linked up with Shelby Stec, an awesome FSU student that coordinates a garden at the Salvation...
It's been an exciting week.Last Friday morning, I visited Astoria Park. Guided by the leadership of Merlin John Baptiste, new director of Astoria's afterschool program, they're organizing a school garden. My role was to present-- along with Ms Miaisha Mitchell, who's done extensive childhood obesity and diabetes work-- on the values (health, academic, behaviorial, etc) of gardens. By the end of...
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...