Gardens feed neighborhoods and neighborly feelings
Episcopal Life Online – Just as gardens increase the diversity of flora and fauna, they can bring together a variety of people from the communities surrounding them, some of whom might not otherwise meet. Adult gardeners join with children and youth in the garden. St. Michael’s garden in Anderson, Calif., [...]
Lots of good stories on last night’s night out (although some got rained out and moved down)
Neighbors gather to celebrate National Night Out
San Antonio Express – Eva Ruth Moravec, Valentino Lucio – Allie Hostetter looked around the Calvary Temple parking lot as hundreds gathered to watch a local elementary school choir, grabbed a bite [...]
Community turns out to support local farm through lean year
Lincoln Journal – Raphaella Cruz – Laughter, bluegrass music and the sweet smell of flowers drifted across Blue Heron Organic Farm on Saturday during the farm’s Fall Festival and Fundraiser. Intermittently pouring and sprinkling rain didn’t seem to have any effect on visitors who picked bouquets [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Excerpted from Growing a Revolution by Stett Holbrook in metroactive
Like much of Silicon Valley, Full Circle Farm was once an orchard, but the rows of Santa Rosa plum trees were plowed under when the orchard was in full blossom one spring in the early 1960s. The Santa Clara Unified School District bought the land and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Patches of green are sprouting up across the arid desert as Coachella Valley residents join a nationwide trend of community gardening.
Following in the footsteps of Palm Desert, which opened its first of two community gardens in 1999, Indian Wells is poised to give its residents the opportunity to get their hands dirty, too.
Valley schools also [...]
With the day’s harvest, the youths known as the Veggie Kids travel door-to-door in their West Philadelphia community, hustling sun gold cherry tomatoes, swiss chard, cabbage, and string beans.
On this afternoon, Fallon Hook, a regular customer, buys a bag of tomatoes. A culinary student, Hook, 28, the mother of five, plans to make a salad. [...]
