Amy Bender Webb
Martha Campbell
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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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Catching up on Spring 2011 Grants
It is a little late, but I wanted to post a quick update to announce that our Spring 2011 Community Gardening Grants went to:
Greer Elementary
Monticello High School - Ecology Garden
Congratulations all! Happy Growing.
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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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Grant Recipients - Spring 2010
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