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NEGEF grants spur community garden development

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund is accepting applications through September 15 for its fall grant cycle. For more information and to download an application form, click on http://grassrootsfund.org/grants/small_grants/.

NEGEF provides small grants ranging from $500 to $2500 to support community groups that have significant volunteer involvement, no more than two full-time paid staff, budgets of [...]

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Canillas Garden Party

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  “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”
“We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in [...]

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Community and School Gardens [Meeting Summary]

The Dirt on Community and School Gardens

May 10th, 2010

Hartford Memorial Middle School

Presented by Upper Valley Farm to School, Valley Food Council, Valley Food & Farm, with thanks to HEAL for sponsoring our speaker

The program had a keynote speech by Jim Flint, Executive Director of the Friends of the Burlington Gardens at VT Community [...]

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Transition Putney Launches One Acre Community Garden

post by Paul LeVasseur, June 15, 2010
<http://transitionvermont.ning.com/group/transitionputney/forum/topics/transition-putney-oneacre>

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When Howie Prussack, Putney farmer, stated at Transition Putney’s Local Foods, Local Farms symposium in February that he wanted to see the two-acre field across from the Putney Coop become a community garden, people clapped and cheered. That dream is now a reality.

The Gateway Group that owns the field [...]

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The Climate-Friendly Gardener

A Guide to Combating Global Warming from the Ground Up

The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a 12-page publication to help gardeners, farmers, and educators better understand the relationship between agriculture and climate change. The “Climate-Friendly Gardener” guidebook is free for downloading at:
<http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/what_you_can_do/the-climate-friendly-gardener.html>.

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The Climate-Friendly Gardener includes these tips:

Tip #1: Choose low-emission garden products and practices
Gasoline-powered [...]

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Food and Fun at Farmers Markets

 

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June 2, 2010

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By early June almost all of the Upper Valley’s Farmers’ Markets are open. This year we’ve confirmed over 30 markets in [...]

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Students Build Garden Shed

Students from the Regional Resource Center at Hartford High have built a wonderful garden shed for the Canillas Community Garden. We had a celebration of the completion of the shed on May 27. The students now have a raised bed in the community garden. Upper Valley HEAL and The Dolben Company (owners of Emerson [...]

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CCBA Preschoolers in the Community Garden

CCBA Preschoolers came to the Canillas Community Garden in Lebanon to transplant the pole beans they have grown for the tepee hideaway and to tour the garden. Our composting worms were a big hit!

Is the Urban Farming Movement Here to Stay?

Urban farming has the potential to help us take charge of the foods we eat, green our cities, build community, and increase food security for urban residents.

Read the full article here:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/25-6

A Growing Community

The Dover Cassily Community Garden is growing strong! Read the full story here:

http://www.wirenh.com/Features/Cover_Stories/A_growing_community_201004294082.htm