Project Updates

04/14/2009

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14226816/Poster-for-Spring-Workshop-20091

In March the Global Education Association held the first Seed Exchange getting ready for the planting season this year.

Together with our participant partners and the green grant from DoSomething.org we have 5 more workshops coming up in the next two months.

We estimate that the attendance of these workshops will be 30-50 people per workshop and reaching many more through re-teaching the skills. Our youngest participants are 10 with our oldest being 65+

The schedule for upcoming workshops is linked above and photos will be uploaded as the workshops unfold.

11/20/2008

In the last month we have held both a bulb planting workshop, which brought together elementary and high school students, and our winterizing workshop, with high school students and the local Woman's Center, to get the garden ready for the long winter months ahead (we had our first snow last night!)

Our last harvest from the garden saw herbs, potatoes, red and green peppers, garlic and onions go to homes and dinner tables throughout the community. My house saw the harvest turned into Aloo Parathas...the cooking wasn't as successful as the growing though.

We're gearing up to fly out to Senegal for our West Africa Project at the end of the month, but planning is well under way here at the Global Education Association to move our winter community workshops inside and keep the ball rolling year round.

It has been great to see people come together across generational gaps and show that local community gardening can have some real, and yummy, impacts on people's lives and that you don't need to fly food in from thousands of miles away to make a dish from half way around the world.