Amy Bender Webb
Martha Campbell
Deborah Rutter
Toms Garden
Time for our Fall 2011 Community Garden Grants. Submit your application, found here: we love funding community, communal and school gardens in Charlottesville and Albemarle. Applications are due Oct ober 1, 2011. Questions? Feel free to email Amy.
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Tom's Garden Fall 2011 Grant Season: submit your application and get your garden spruced up now!
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Morven Summer Institute: wonderful interdisciplinary learning opportunity this summer in Charlottesville
The Morven Summer Institute is an intensive and unique four-week (May 16 - June 9, 2011) experience held on the grounds of UVa's historic Morven Farm. Designed for undergraduates with interests in sustainability, design, food systems, and ecology, this interdisciplinary program features courses in Architecture, Interdisciplinary Food Studies, and a one-credit seminar co-taught by a multidisciplinary team of faculty from across the University. Students will arrive at Morven in the morning (transportation is provided) and return to Grounds in the early afternoon. Like Study Abroad, but in Charlottesville, students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a distinctive learning environment for a novel environmental education. Alongside coursework, the Morven Kitchen Garden will be both a highlight and focus of the student experience at the Morven Summer Institute."
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Seed Swap - 2.22.11 in Belmont
C'ville Foodscapes and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange are co-hosting a Community Seed Swap just in time for Spring planting! It will be held on Sunday, February 20th from 11AM-2PM at Alexander House Inn and Hostel, 1205 Monticello Rd. Seeds for sale and trade, seed-saving info, snacks, music and more.
For more information, contact Kassia at 434. 806. 6255.
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10.10.10 Unearth a Dream: Help restore the Historic Rock Hill Gardens, via 350.org
The property dates back to the late 1800s and has a rich historical evolution from a private home, to a ministry to one of the first private schools in the area born out of the desegregation movement. The magnificent eight acre stone-walled, terraced garden now surrounds what has become the Monticello Area Community Action Agency, known as MACAA, which houses outreach programs such as Headstart, Hope House, CARES and Project Discovery High School.
via 350.org
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What’s On Your Plate: A Public Forum on Local Food and the Media next Thursday
What’s On Your Plate: A Public Forum on Local Food and the Media next Thursday
The UVa Food Collaborative presents “What’s On Your Plate: A Public Forum on Local Food and the Media”, on Thursday, October 7th, from 4 to 6pm at the new LEED-certified Jefferson Scholars Foundation building at 112 Clarke Court, Charlottesville, VA
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Charlottesville Community Garden Bike Tour - This Sunday, 10/3 from 1 - 6
The Charlottesville Open Garden Project is pleased to announce the first ever Community Garden Bike Tour of Charlottesville!
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Sunday, October 3, 2010, 1 pm - 6pm
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Registration begins promptly at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 209 Monticello Road (across from Spudnuts), Belmont
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Featured Gardens:
UVA Community Garden
Hereford College Mini-Farm
Buford Schoolyard Garden Project
PATCH Garden (a project of the Haven)
QCC Farms! Garden of Goodness
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General Admission: $10 | Students: $5 | 16 and under ride for free!
Proceeds benefit the Buford garden, PATCH, and QCC Farms!
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A Tom's Garden grant goes to the IRC!
We're thrilled to announce a Fall 2010 grant to the International Rescue Committee in support of their New Roots Program!
A little bit about the program from their grant application:
The New Roots project launched in spring 2009 as a small program to provide approximately 20 refugee families with the resources to grow their own vegetables. The goals were to promote good health, to supplement refugees’ food budgets, encourage environmental stewardship, and to allow refugees to reconnect with an important part of their own cultures.
The 2010 New Roots project gave small kitchen gardens to 24 refugee families. The project has been so successful that this year, in addition to continuing to provide kitchen gardens to the refugee community, IRC hopes to access a plot of land and fund a larger community garden so refugees may cultivate crops together.
Our next grants will be awarded in the Spring of 2011: it seems like a long way off, but plan now for your Garden! Our Grants are available to any group of private individuals, homeowner's associations, private, public and non-profit organizations, schools....just about anybody who has or hopes to start a community garden in Charlottesville, Albemarle or the neighboring region.
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Hey Charlottesville: get gardening with a grant from Tom's Garden!
Tom's Garden, an initiative of Nest Realty Group, gives $250.00 grants for Community Gardening in the Charlottesville - Albemarle area, so if you've got gardening on your mind, act now to get a grant.
Our grants are available for groups of individuals, homeowner's associations, private, public and non-profit organizations...just about anybody who wants to start or improve a community garden.
The next application deadline is September 15, 2010 and recipients will be selected, based on available funding, on or about October 1, 2010. Autumn is a great time to lay the foundation/hardscape for a garden to plant early next Spring, so think about funding now!
In the meantime, check out the gardens we funded in the Spring of 2010: they're looking great and we are so pleased to have played just a small part in bringing them about!
Questions? call Amy Webb at 434.760.1319
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Grant Recipients - Spring 2010
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