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Deputy Majority Leader State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) announced Thursday that the NYS State Senate passed his bill to provide continued support for local community gardens.

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Hari Pulapaka, chef and owner of Cress Restaurant in DeLand, Florida, scored a spot at a local community garden to sprout his organic produce for vitamin - packed salads like this one.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

Accessing farmers markets, using community gardens and co-ops, or even starting a garden in your own backyard are all great options for eating healthier, supporting the local community, and spending less money.

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Schools can help local community garden projects gather their harvest by providing convenient facilities for cleaning and storing fruits and vegetables.

Around the same time Richmond began implementing salad bars (called garden patches in their schools) they also received a USDA Farm to School Planning Grant that allowed them to explore the readiness and eagerness of students, staff and community for fresh local food incorporated into the school system.

«While some of your work may be national in scope,» said the first lady in her opening remarks, «ultimately your most powerful impact is local... For example, The New York Botanical Garden started the Bronx Green - Up revitalization program, and they helped plant hundreds of school and community gardens in struggling neighborhoods so that families could grow their own fresh produce.»

Specifically, Klein's bill (S. 6343 / NYS Assembly same - as A.6442 - A / Cook) requires municipalities that sell, transfer, or lease land from a community garden for a different purpose to use a small portion (10 %) of the sale price to purchase or create a new garden, sustain another existing garden, or support local groups that maintain these gardens.

KSR is offering a number of incentives to entice businesses, including discounted rent, an apartment within the building to use at no cost, and partnerships with local food advocacy groups and community gardens for locally - grown produce.

Erica Scime is a journalism grad turned wellness blogger who has a passion for holistic health, natural nutrition, local food, community gardening, practicing yoga and running outdoors.

AARP suggests some popular hobbies for «grown - ups,» including writing (join a seniors memoir writing group), knitting, riding horses at the local barn, becoming a part of a community garden or helping with a farmers market.

Among other activities, the programme teaches agriculture to help members of the community improve the yield of their kitchen gardens, facilitates ecological sustainability and broadens educational options for marginalized community members helping the Roma settle and become part of local communities.

Teachers and staff are always seeking ways for the school to give back to the community, whether by planting a community garden or helping cook meals for a local community center.

Alongside our children's growing enthusiasm for gardening, our work has prompted wider interest within the community, resulting in an increasing number of mutually beneficial partnerships with local organisations and businesses.

She says the school has also drawn on support from local community organisations, such as the local Men's Shed, which made a large table for the garden that can be used both for potting plants and as a work space for outside learning.

Engaging the community: from site visits to recycling and water treatment plants, through to eco evenings, gardening weeks and Fairtrade coffee mornings, sustainability is a great foundation for engaging the local community.

The premium should also create gardens and grow areas for nature learning and play, and to promote environmental citizenship, as well as make physical activity facilities available to the local community.

In a high - poverty, urban middle school in Mississippi, the principal has partnered with local businesses to develop a community garden that students work in to grow fresh vegetables they can take home — and good deeds can earn them credit for supplies at the school store.

Local dignitaries and other community representatives will be in attendance for a traditional Hawaiian blessing ceremony of Luana Garden Villas.

You... Bedroom [garden view]: 2 Queens and 2 singles LUXURY AMENITIES Complimentary dinner during your stay... caretakers Dining room table for 12 guests Marble floors throughout the villa Ceiling fans in every room Air... with comfortable seating for 12 Outdoor shower Community tennis court (tennis rackets and balls provided by the villa...) Badminton rackets DINING Villa Hacienda del Mar offers its guests an exclusive chef service and shopping serivce: pick... bars, restaurants, shops with local products.

With 20,000 square feet of exhibition galleries and an outdoor sculpture garden, the new 37,500 - square - foot building will create an enduring cultural and educational resource for the local community and for audiences from throughout the region and beyond.

Following the workshop, will be the opening reception of «CROPPED» a photo exhibit featuring a series of farmer photos curated by Mixed Greens, an interactive map of local community gardens and seed planting activities for children.

Savannah Urban Garden Alliance (SUGA) will host an art show and four - night film series in August introducing the community to urban gardening concepts and providing information on opportunities for community involvement in local gardens.

About Broadway Gallery Broadway Gallery is a charitable service of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, a self - funding charitable organisation which invests profits from its property portfolio to maintain and enhance the world's first Garden City for the long - term benefit of local communities.

-- CivLab, a project for which ARTs East NY will partner with the NYC Department of City Planning to bring together city planners, local artists, and residents in Success Garden, a community garden in East NewGarden, a community garden in East Newgarden in East New York.

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If not, consider joining a community garden or bartering work for produce with friends or local farmers.

So is the need for a hedge against fossil fuel cost increases, the opportunity to create local jobs, put generation near customers and offer community garden subscriptions.

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For now Neighbor Carts buys produce from a large wholesaler, but there is the possibility of partnering vendors with local community gardens and urban farms.

Topics covered include everything from local food festivals to potential civil unrest in the face of rising fuel prices to urban community gardening to supermarket's phoney «local» food initiatives - click below the fold for parts two, three and four.

Providing space for community gardens is seen by many local governments as an essential service, like providing playgrounds for children or tennis courts and other sport facilities.

Smith and MacKinnon finished their one - year trial on March 20, 2006, but plan to continue to shop at farmers» markets, tend their community garden plot, and preserve local foods for the winter.

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Often confused with community gardening, which is typically noncommercial, urban farming is concerned with the production of food for local sale and distribution.

Some of the factors that I think have contributed to this success include: engaging a broad range of stakeholders (community members, City Council, local businesses, etc.); encouraging intergenerational participation (inviting elders to share their wisdom; offering child care activities; etc); and inviting creativity and fun as part of our placemaking work (for example, one project will include a fairy garden for kids, and another will create a cob oven for shared meals).

Included in the short - list are Ample Harvest — who featured on Jaymi's list of 10 Techy Tools for Gardeners — and who aim to match excess garden produce with food pantries around the country; CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), which runs one of the oldest buy - local campaigns in the country; and Farming Concrete, which is aiming to quantify and track the amount of food grown in inner - city areas.

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Maybe you helped create a community garden or an app for searching local events.

In 2012, fueled by our love for the city, my husband and I created a community - centered website called all things winter garden — primarily as a local resource and a place for residents and visitors to come together online.

But... that inspired me to continue my love of containers and even to take a Master Gardening course and then give classes and seminars for community ed, the art museum, and the farmers market, as well as local garden clubs on container gGardening course and then give classes and seminars for community ed, the art museum, and the farmers market, as well as local garden clubs on container gardeninggardening.