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Do you want your own garden? Build-a-Garden is a new program at The Food Project designed to get more people to grow their own food in Boston. We will build you a raised bed garden and plant it with vegetables.
The program will provide you with:
–A raised bed garden including soil and compost
–Seeds and transplants
–Your own Grower’s Manual
–Trainings and drop-in days on our Urban Learning Farm at Shirley Place, Roxbury MA
For more details, please download this brochure (PDF).
You can also download an application:
English application (PDF)
Spanish application (PDF)
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People’s Grocery, Alameda Point Collaborative/Growing Youth Project, Berkeley Youth Alternatives, Farm Fresh Choice, Literacy for Environmental Justice, and OBUGS, did a joint event on July 31. As the culmination to the Urban Rootz Food and Justice Camp, the youth put together a presentation/outreach event that took place in front of Oakland City Hall from 12-1. The youth performed a skit about local food, dressed up in vegetable costumes, handed out flyers, read poems, made 6-10 posters with great info on them about buying local, food justice, and the state of agriculture, and gave out yummy local produce from some of our gardens.
–Kate Casale, Alameda Point Collaborative
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I ordered a copy of the WorldWatch Institute’s publication: 2007 State of the World: Our Urban Future. It can be purchased as a downloadable PDF document, or as a book. Chapter 3 is called “Farming the Cities” by Brian Halweil and Danielle Nierenberg, and it’s an interesting summary of the state of urban agriculture around the world.
It makes a compelling case for the value of people growing their own food in urban areas (urban farms, community gardens, backyard gardens, rooftop gardens) and for creative ways to facilitate access to local food in cities (farmers markets, CSA’s). It presents the results of numerous studies that document the benefits of growing food in urban areas for public health, the environment, the economy, food security, and the community. I found many of these helpful in talking about the work we are doing in Boston. I was inspired by what is happening in other parts of the country and the world. I encourage everyone to take a look at it. And of course The Food Project is mentioned!
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Do you believe that food can be a force for positive social change? Do you have the photos to prove it? Submit your best pictures to reap/sow and help us to illustrate the world you wish to create. Our revolution might not be televised, but it is being photographed!
Entries will be featured in a photo gallery in an upcoming edition of reap/sow. Photographs must be submitted with a short caption that (a) identifies the photographer and location of the photo, and (b) briefly explains what the photo means with a sentence or two, a quote, or even a short poem.
We’re looking for photos that show the many aspects of this movement: the inspiration, the humor, the unexpected, the creative, the joy, the sweat, and the beauty. Photos will be judged in these categories. We welcome submissions by people of all ages, although all photos must be by, for, or about the youngest generation-those 30 and under. If you are over 30, your photo should feature youth and young adults or you should explain in your caption why your photo is one that you want young people to see. There is no limit to how many photos one person can enter.
Email photos, contact info, and caption to Rowan Dunlap at by February 20, 2007. Please include your mailing address so your prize, Wil Bullock’s Time for Change CD, can be mailed to you.
