A handful of us attended Sustainable Food Center's Community Garden LeadershipTraining today. If you have any interest in starting a community garden in your neighborhood, we highly recommend you attending the next workshop like this that they offer!
It only cost $5 and we each walked away with a binder that completely lines out the process: from organizing your neighbors, to picking a site, to finding funding. And not only did we get to learn a ton from Jess and Sari, the SFC Grow Local goddesses, but we also got to share ideas and resources among each other and we got to tour Windsor Park Community Garden. Check out some pictures of their awesome fence.
We are TOTALLY doing something like this at our site!
Speaking of our site, here's a brief update. The site that we have now is lying pretty much in a dormant state as we take some time to prepare for the exciting plans we have for the spring season. Those plans include planting a mini-orchard of fruit-producing trees, working to create a vibrant and green community space for meetings/classes/etc., and designating a community garden space alongside the cooperative mini-farm space. We are an ambitious lot who certainly have their work cut out for them. We can always use more hands, so if you're interested in joining us please don't be shy! Leave a comment here or email us at quilombogardens@gmail.com.
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