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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
News Letter
Subject / Headline: Detroit does it best
Greetings gardeners,
Detroit is rarely portrayed as the model of anything positive by the media, but our Urban Farming community is breaking that trend. Detroit is being used as an example for other major city’s such as New York and San Francisco for how to make urban gardening as successful.
What’s Detroit’s recipe for success? It takes a community that care deeply about their city, an administration that’s willing to help and space on which to build gardens.
Below we have links to a few of the articles highlighting the success of Detroit's urban gardening community and what it is that makes them so successful
Good Magazine explains all the things that Detroit is doing right, and advises other cites to take notice.
What makes the Detroit model so special? In addition to their large annual yields, the farms show strong community involvement and rate of return—over 80 percent of the gardeners in the GRP return to the program each spring.
Even the mayor is in support of Urban farming as Crain’s Detroit Business reports
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s administration works on a plan to align the city’s geography with its ability to deliver services, urban farming can be a key component of putting the city’s vacant land into productive use.
Detroit's new evolution from manufacturing to agriculture is catching the eye of cities around the country reports the Christian Science Monitor.
Detroit, which revolutionized manufacturing with its auto assembly lines, could once again be a model for the world as residents transform vacant, often-blighted land into a source of fresh food.With growing interest in locally raised food, cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle are looking at ways to foster and manage urban agriculture. San Francisco's mayor has proposed creating community gardens on vacant public land citywide.
Great things are happening and we know even greater things are still to come. As always we encourage you or anyone you know that might need help to drop us a line, we’re happy to help out. Keep growing
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One small seed can help Detroit grow.
It's as easy as planting a garden. But If you don’t know where to begin, or want to find out how you can help Visit DetroitAgriculture.com And find out how the Garden Resource Program can help you, help Detroit.
Final Radio
Story teller:
Their once was a city that stood proud and shining, the envy of all.
But time passed and the beautiful metropolis became decayed from years of abuse and neglect.
People moved out in search of a city like the one they used to love.
One day, someone decided that, instead of running away, that they were going to plant a seed. It grew into a flower, and they liked it so much that they planted another.
People noticed, and it wasn’t long before everyone was planting gardens of their own.
The once despondent city soon became a lush kaleidoscope of colors and foods.
The citizens again had a city they could be proud of.
All this, from a single person, planting one small seed.
When you start a garden, you grow more than flowers or food, you grow Detroit.
The Garden Resource program has been providing support to gardens of all sizes in Detroit, for over seven years.
If you want to help Detroit grow, plant something.
Visit DetroitAgriculture.com to find out all the ways the Garden Resource Program can help you grow Detroit.
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Announcer: What are you going to get for the Detroiter on your list this holiday season? Get them what they really want. A hoe. They need something to plow long and hard. Get dirty
We have hoes in all shapes and sizes.
Not sure what kind of hoe to get? That’s fine, The Garden Resource Programs friendly volunteer staff have years of experience picking quality gardening products.
They can also help you find seeds, and plants that will grow best in you favorite Detroiters backyard.
Why not get the whole shed? We have all the resources you need to turn a backyard into a garden.
Create your own heart warming holiday story by letting our friendly staff help you start a community garden to help feed and beautify your neighborhood.
To learn more visit detroitagracuture.com
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Headline: Get Your Hands On A Hoe
Its not as easy to pick up a hoe as you might think. Your going to need a wingman in this Urban gardening game. The Garden Resource Program is here to help you discover the pleasures of your own garden.
Its not as easy to pick up a hoe as you might think. That’s why the Garden Resource Program is here with tips and classes to help you discover the pleasures only your own garden can bring. Visit detroitagriculture.org to learn more.
Its not hard to get a hoe and its not hard to put it to work either.
Getting your hands on a hoe is not as hard as you might think,
Headline: A hoe on every corner
If everyone grabbed a hoe and went home and started a garden, our city would be a better place. Gardens make more than just vegetables, they make our city a better place to live. Visit detroitagriculture.org to learn how the Garden Resource Program can help you get started.
Getting your hands on a hoe is one thing, doing something with it is completely different
Headline Ideas
Grow something good
Growing Detroit
Grow a better Detroit
Grow a healthier life
Grow a better community
Grown in Detroit
Grow yourself
Grow your skills
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You don’t need to be a farmer to have a garden
Planting seeds
Harvesting a crop
Harvesting the benefits
Plant seeds for a healthier life
We got the seeds if you’ve got the time
Eat your vegetables
You don’t have to grow broccoli, the dog doesn’t want it.
Grow yourself
Eat your backyard
Getin’ dirty in the D
Roll up your sleeves
Gardening is for gangsters
Be a G- gardener
A green thumb goes a long way in the mitten
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Eat your backyard
Your backyard is a plate
Backyard harvest
A garden grows in Coarktown
Make it rain
Make it rain, but not on da hoe’s
Get dirty in the garden
Fertilize something
Make it rain on them hoes
Make it rain in your community
Community gardeners
Renegade gardeners
Gardener gang
Gang affiliated
Take produce into your own hands
Make it rain on them seeds
I got to feed my seeds
Stacks and stacks of veggies
You gotta stack ya produce playa
Gangsta gardeners
Spend some time in the backyard with the hoe
Spend some time with a hoe
Get your hands on a hoe
Let me intoduce you to a hoe
This hoe works for free
Garden tools
Weeder
Gloves
Hand tools
Rake
Cultivator
Trowel
Tiller
bucket
Pruner
Watering can
Shears
Fetilizer
Soil testing
Wood chips
Mulch
Tool sharing
Shovel
Transplant
Scoop
Turf
Axe
Hatchet
Bulb
Roots
Leaf
Stem
Sprout
Seedling
Bud
Petal
Farming words
Harvest
Grow
Reap
Sew
Plant
Water
Soil
Rain
Tractor
Shovel
Dirty
Dawn till dusk
Tilling
Weeding
Fertilizing
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Subject / Headline: Detroit does it best
Greetings gardeners,
Detroit is rarely portrayed as the model of anything positive by the media, but our Urban Farming community is breaking that trend. Detroit is being used as an example for other major city’s such as New York and San Francisco for how to make urban gardening as successful.
What’s Detroit’s recipe for success? It takesa community that care deeply about their city, an administration that’s willing to help and space on which to build gardens.
Below we have links to a few of the articles highlighting the success of Detroit gardens and what it is that makes them so successful
Good Magazine explains all the things that Detroit is doing right, and advises other cites to take notice.
What makes the Detroit model so special? In addition to their large annual yields, the farms show strong community involvement and rate of return—over 80 percent of the gardeners in the GRP return to the program each spring.
Even the mayor is in support of Urban farming as Crain’s Detroit Business reports
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s administration works on a plan to align the city’s geography with its ability to deliver services, urban farming can be a key component of putting the city’s vacant land into productive use.
Detroit's new evolution from manufacturing to agriculture is catching the eye of cities around the country reports the Christian Science Monitor.
Detroit, which revolutionized manufacturing with its auto assembly lines, could once again be a model for the world as residents transform vacant, often-blighted land into a source of fresh food.With growing interest in locally raised food, cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle are looking at ways to foster and manage urban agriculture. San Francisco's mayor has proposed creating community gardens on vacant public land citywide.
Great things are happening and we know even greater things are still to come. As always we encourage you or anyone you know that might need help to drop us a line, we’re happy to help out. Keep growing
Monday, December 6, 2010
Last Night I Attended Soup
Last night I attended Soup, A gathering held on the first Sunday of every month above the Mexican Town Bakery on Vernor Ave. Soup has been going on for about a year now and its really starting to pick up in popularity. The Idea is to get a group of Detroiters together to microfinance projects in Detroit. It costs five dollars to get in and that scores you soup, salad and desert. The majority of the night is spent mingling and conversing about how to make the city a better place with other young, optimistic Detroiters. During dinner, a few people from the group (you’ll be able to recognize them because they are wearing capes) present projects their working on. Each presenter is given three minutes to sell the group on the importance of their particular project and then the group is allowed four questions per presenter to try and better understand or poke holes in the presenters project. Everyone is generally positive and friendly, even when the ideas and or presentations are laughable. After everyone presents and before you leave you are asked to cast your vote for what project you think in most deserving of funding. The votes are tallied and the winner receives the money raised from the five-dollar entry fee. My friend Veronica won last month for her Empowerment Plan and scored over 700 dollars.
Soup is another example of how the Detroit community is working together on a grass roots level to improve the city. In attendance last night, there were students, professionals, teachers, urban farmers and creative’s of all variety. The common thread was that all these people want to see a better Detroit and their willing to roll up their sleeves and do it themselves or at least give some money to help others in their pursuit. I think its fantastic, why should we go at it alone or depend on handouts from corporations? Most of us have five bucks a month to give to something charitable and Soup is possible the coolest way I’ve found to give back to the community without needing to do work of any kind.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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