Thursday, May 31, 2012

40 Days/ 40 Rights: Urban Gardening

Greetings all! 

This week is about supporting sustainable food resources through urban gardening.  If you're anything like us, you are curious about what's going on in your community and how to support your local urban gardening projects, but aren't quite sure where to start.  We decided to take a little of the grunt work out of it for you!  Below are two links to our favorite places to get our green thumb fix on with a few little blurbs about each one.  Check them out, get involved, support your local community and meet some really great people!

There are more than these organizations in Flint, but these are great places to start.  

http://peacemobgarden.wordpress.com/
"We focus on community enrichment and education as our main standpoint and pride ourselves in pioneering new ideas and concepts that better our position in the fight against poverty, miseducation, malnutrition, and lack of motivation in our community. Through positive social interaction and persistence in doing what needs to be done we will overcome the hardships that arise and prevail with great success over our difficulties."

On this site, you can easily find ways to get involved, find out more about the projects going on around Flint with PeaceMob, and read about past events and projects.  These are a group of truly grassroots community activists with a sincere dedication to revitalizing what once was a suffering neighborhood into a unique, diverse and inclusive place to gain new friends and make a difference in your community.


 http://www.edibleflint.org/
"Edible flint supports Flint residents in growing  and accessing healthy food in order to reconnect with the land and each other.  With this mission in mind, edible flint has divided its work among six different work
groups, each of them self-organized to address specific issues and opportunities in our
local food system."


This is a great place to find out about the co-op, get yourself a starter kit for your own urban garden (when they're available), and even join the mailing list to get up-to-date information via email.  Edible Flint is a collaborative of people who want to help each individual in the Flint community start their own  urban garden and then help to sustain that movement.  What a great idea!



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