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...
Meet my buddy, Jorge Lopez.He and I attended Warren Wilson College together, where he studied biology with a focus on plants. Prior to "Wilson," he earned his AA at the University of Florida, served for four years in the US Marine Corps. He's worked as an EMT for three years in New York City and for three years as an ER tech. He also worked for a year in a health food store. Currently, Jorge's...
Amazing images courtesy Inga Finch Photography
"Wowww! Look at Our Garden!"So said teenage Christine when she came around the side of the house in view of our workshop garden this past Saturday. For four saturdays, once a month, for four months (skipping December), I'm leading an introductory food garden class with a friends' group of nine special needs teens at the home of Kelly Hetherington, one...
Here's a few images from the workshop:
Square Foot Gardening: vidalia onions
Man in Overalls answering food gardening questions
Notice the square foot grid for ease of plant spacing
Beautiful garden design created by Meghan Mick with Design from the Ground Up.
Have you ever heard-tell of the citizenship schools of the 50s and 60s? (Click here for a mini-history from the perspective of the Highlander Folks School in eastern Tennessee.)On the surface level, the citizenship schools were simply a place where black folks taught other black folks how to read and write, the point being to pass the literacy exams and register to vote. But since the focus was...