McDonough Community Garden to Enhance Local Community Garden with Support from a ScottsMiracle-Gro GRO1000 Grassroots Grant

 

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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…)

McDonough Community Garden X Cheats Movement

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.
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How To: Grow Potatoes in a Small Space

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.

Vote for #RVAFARMS to Get 10K to Start an Urban Farm in RVA

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Please help the organizers of Happily Natural Day win $10,000 to start an urban farm in RVA by voting online for #RVAFARMS today and for the next two days. If you ever appreciated Happily Natural Day, or the work that we do in the community please show your support today by voting and inspiring your friends to vote for us – as we seek to help mitigate the negative effects of food deserts for low income communities in RVA.

Vote Here: http://www.ie-rva.org/vote/?vote=2474

RVA Farms will operate an urban farm in the city of Richmond, Virginia that sells fresh organic fruits and vegetables in food deserts. Our urban farm will feature hoop houses, an outdoor demonstration garden and learning pavilion. We will be Richmond’s first urban farm B-Corporation.