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Roots of Change Community Garden

Submitted by dianalopez on Wed, 06/06/2007 - 15:14.
Last updated on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 13:39.

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 03/01/2007
Money Raised: $2,900 and donations from local businesses

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The San Antonio East Side neighborhood is plagued with issues of poverty, low-wages, environmental contamination and few positive activities for youth. The area lacks resources like libraries, recreational facilities, grocery stores or banks. The project will start a sustainable community garden where members can bring home the harvest and, eventually, seedlings to start their own home garden. It will model different techniques like water catchment, drip irrigation, composting, integrated pest management and raised beds. The garden will also function as a place to build community in this low-income neighborhood, where youth and residents can come together to learn, organize, and get empowered to engage in development issues in the neighborhood.The project is open to everyone is the community, but targets involvement from young people. Outreach will be done bilingually through fliers, the City Council district, neighborhoods associations, churches, schools, and after school programs. Goals: Provide healthful, organic fruits and vegetables to the East Side Community for no or low cost Serve as an educational center for youth and community members to learn about urban gardening. Provide seedlings for home gardens to increase food security Create a sense of community ownership of the garden through work days and events We are the key to creating a better life and without our roots that is impossible.

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Produce, success, and community, those are three great crops that deserve cultivation. Your program sounds exceptionally well planned and I like the name.

 

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