garden
Last updated by tjbottles on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 16:14.
Recently Myself other students that attend Mid-America Nazarene University have started a community/campus Garden. This Garden will be used to grow vegetables to be used for our Homeless Ministry. The Homeless ministry is a opportunity for students on campus to cook for the homeless in the Kansas City area. This Garden will also be used to beautify and celebrate the beauty of the enviornment and show what our planet can produce if taken care of. This Garden is a great opportunity as well for students to witness the beauty that is present in our world, that is so often covered by the ugly.
Last updated by peacejammers on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 12:04.
We are a small group of home schoolers that have been studying Nobel Peace Prize laureates for the past two years. We were studying the Dalia Lama and learned that he has peacefully been working towards peace in Tibet. In the spring of 2007 we created a peace garden at our local community park. We made this garden to help bring peace to our community and create a place for citizens to go to enjoy themselves and experience peace. It's a round garden of about 16' diameter placed near a wooden bench with a redbud tree in the middle.
Last updated by nateburns on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 01:09.
Final project is a 8x3x3 foot replica of the Eiffel Tower. This tower was made to stand as a topiary for a specific kind of French rose. The tower was constructed of Red Cedar, stainless steal decking screws, and garden fencing. Today the tower stands in The International-Friendship Gardens of La Crosse, Wi as a symbol of the bond of friendship between La Crosse and one of its sister cities: Épinal, France.
Last updated by renabear on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 23:19.
Hey,
What I would like to do is get my community to start a community garden. I think I'd like to start with recruiting some of my peers, in order to build the community, give them hope and try to push out some of the drugs and violence.
Thanks
Last updated by TeeYayOOO on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 22:29.
In my community, there are run down appartments for lower income families called the Gardens. The neighborhood is pretty run down, and is an eyesore for the community. It is my idea that we should devise a community service project called "Put the Gardens Back in the Gardens" and clean it up and plant flowers to make it more appealing and make the people down there feel better.
Last updated by flyfreeasabird on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 00:48.
The Edible Forest Garden Demonstration Project sets up public models for citizens to remove their lawns and replace them with and edible forest gardens and to learn how to lessen their carbon footprint by eating locally grown food (the average food is trucked 1500 miles to get to our table).
Starting at schools (k-12), and front yards on main streets, we are putting in these forest gardens and educating students and citizens about what a forest garden is and how it helps our environment.
We are working with Neighborhood Associations to get Edible Forest Gardens planted in each neighborho
Last updated by koma on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 12:26.
Goals:
-Find an unused plot in a low-income urban environment and transform it by planting a healthy diverse garden, where the food grown can be sold for almost nearly free to community members.
-Provide youth the opportunity to grow and harvest their own plot and/or have a designated area for creating a mural on the surrounding walls that will promote social justice, peace, and/or cultural understanding.
-Providing an encouraging, positive, and creating environment for youth and staff.
-Providing teachers and staff with materials/resources necessary to successfully educate their students
Last updated by dianalopez on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 13:39.
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.
Last updated by libbyhenderson on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 11:26.
One beautiful, sunny, afternoon in May, the DO SOMETHING club gathered in the back of Brooks Elementary school to perform a wonderful service for a worthy cause. Jennifer's Garden was started several years ago to honor one of our teacher's daughter, Jennifer, who was killed in an automobile accident. The garden was in need of clean up and re-planting ... which is exactly what we did. We asked for donations from Do Something members, and received over 40 plants that had been discarded or divided. These plants were planted by the Do Something kids.
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