McDonough Community Garden to Enhance Local Community Garden with Support from a ScottsMiracle-Gro GRO1000 Grassroots Grant
Grant program to help local communities through garden and green space development
Richmond, VA March 30, 2013 – Friends of McDonough Community Garden today announced the improvement of its community garden at the intersection of 33rd St and Forest Hill Ave. The garden is part of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s GRO1000 initiative, designed to create 1,000 gardens and green spaces throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe by 2018, the Company’s 150th anniversary. (more…)
Cheats Movement caught up with us over at the McDonough Garden this past summer and took a couple pics plus hit us with some video. The McDonough Community Garden is a community based garden located at 3300 McDonough Street on the Southside of RVA. The garden is being built in an area designated by the USDA as a food dessert — which means the area has limited access to fruits and vegetables. The project was the winner of the 3rd Feast RVA. (more…)
GMO’s, Gotta Go! : March Against Monsanto Richmond
John Lewis, Renew Richmond 501(c)(3)
Saturday, May 25th at 2:00pm, concerned citizens of Richmond, VA and some visitors from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Hawaii, and Africa met in Carytown to join more than 2 Million people in 436 cities in the US and more than 52 nations across the world in the March Against Monsanto. This peaceful assembly of more than 350 Richmond citizens, organized by members of Renew Richmond, Wingnut Anarchist Collective, and other concerned individuals, was in protest of AgriGiant Monsanto, the world’s leading seed producer as well as the largest producer of Genetically Engineered (GE) Seeds and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO).
Read the rest of the letter after the jump (more…)
A quick tutorial on how to use a barrel to grow loads of potatoes. i would do this but with tires so that you can just add more soil as the potatoes grow upward.
McDonough Community Garden to Enhance Local Community Garden with Support from a ScottsMiracle-Gro GRO1000 Grassroots Grant
McDonough Community Garden X Cheats Movement
Letter to the Press – Richmond VA March Against Monsanto
How To: Grow Potatoes in a Small Space
Vote for #RVAFARMS to Get 10K to Start an Urban Farm in RVA
How to Build a Self-Watering Container – so your plants can water themselves when you’re gone.
LaDonna Redmond, Senior Program Associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, talks about food justice.
McDonough Community Garden
The McDonough Community Garden is a located in a USDA designated food desert. It is an 8500 square foot triangle in the middle of a semi residential neighborhood. The location is 3300 McDonough Street Richmond Virginia. The garden provides a beautiful edible landscape perfect for horticultural therapy, a community space for social gatherings and cultural activities and youth programs teaching children and teens in the community social entrepreneurship, biology, nutrition and ecology. In addition, the space is a bridge builder in the community allowing for inter-generational and cross cultural dialogues.
Please consider a gift to McDonough Community Garden to support our urban agriculture work.
McDonough Community Garden is fiscally sponsored by the Enrichmond Foundation [501(c)(3)] all donations to McDonough Community Garden are tax deductible. Contributions are processed by Wepay through this secure server. Thank you!
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