Common Wealth, Inc. will be hosting a planting party at the Experimental Commercial Farms on Baldwin Street around the corner from the Stuart building tomorrow, May 8, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Please join us and bring energy, gloves and little diggers. After the gardening there will bratwurst with sauerkraut, veggie burgers and other treats.
May 8, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
This article was published on Inc.com last week. It’s long, but very much worth the read:
Today is Earth Day!
This afternoon from 4-6, Grow Youngstown and the YSU Biology Club are hosting a garden party at the Fairgreen Neighborhood Garden. The garden is on the corner of Fairgreen and Ohio avenues, one block away from Wick Park. Locally grown refreshments will be served. For more information, please call 330-502-8564.
Later this evening will be the 8th annual A.C.T.I.O.N. Community Fundraiser and Banquet at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Social Hall where Resettle Youngstown’s very own Pat Rosenthal will be honored, along with Elder Eleanor Felder and Father Ed Noga . This event will begin with a social hour from 6-7, followed by dinner and entertainment from 7-9. Tickets are $30/person. For more information, please call 330-782-7433
Earth Day is this Thursday, and there are tons of events scheduled for this week, the first of which is the Wick Park Neighborhood Association (a.k.a Resettle Youngstown) meeting tonight at 6 at the UU. Please join us. (More events to follow)
A message from our good friends at Grow Youngstown:
Grow Youngstown has organized a film series, The Real Dirt on Food, featuring documentaries and discussions about how our food is grown, the value of community-supported agriculture, and food policy. The first film, Dirt! The Movie, will be screened at the Lemon Grove Café, 122 West Federal Street, in downtown Youngstown, on Monday, April 12, at 7 pm. Dirt! The Movie explores how soil affects our environment, economy, and society. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, the film presents the work of experts from around the world whose research and activism examines and promotes respectful, mutually beneficial uses of soil. Vince Trinckes, a member of Grow Youngstown’s board and a retired technician for the Mahoning County Soil & Water Conservation District, will lead discussion after the film.
The series will continue in May, with a screening of The Living Land on Wednesday, May 12, in the Radius Room of the Davis Center at Fellows Riverside Gardens. Additional films will be screened at other local venues in June and July. Admission to the films is free, though participants are encouraged to make a donation to support Grow Youngstown. The film series is made possible with support from the Sisters of the Humility of Mary with their commitment to EcoSpirituality and EcoJustice.
Along with promoting thoughtful discussion about where our food comes from and why it matters, the gatherings will provide information about Grow Youngstown. The local non-profit organization aims to create a healthy, socially just, economically viable, and inter-dependent local food system and to promote the sustainable growth of food, forest, forage, and fuel. Along with increasing awareness of these issues, Grow Youngstown pursues projects that give local residents opportunities to take action. Its community-supported agriculture program makes it easy for Youngstown area residents to purchase produce from local farms, while its urban agriculture efforts are building community gardens and small-scale farms within the city. To learn more about Grow Youngstown’s projects, visit the website, growyoungstown.org.
For more information on the film series, contact Barbara O’Donnell, 330-565-8417, bodonnell@humilityofmary.org.
The next Wick Park Neighborhood Association meeting (formerly known as Resettle Youngstown meetings) will be held Monday, February 22 at 6 p.m. at the UU.
Members of the Wick Park Neighborhood Association working together on the Stuart Place clean up project
Hello all,
As you may (or may not) have heard, we have been planning to establish a state and FDA certified shared-use commercial kitchen facility on the Northside. Such a facility will provide work space, equipment, and business advice for people interested in marketing value-added food products such as jellies, sauces, pies, etc.
We are still in the feasibility stage of this project and ask that everyone with a fantastic secret recipe who would like to make some extra money by marketing their value-added food product take this survey that will help us design a kitchen that will meet the needs of everyone interested in using such a facility.
For more information on shared-use kitchen facilities, check out ACEnet’s website. ACEnet (The Appalachian Center for Economic Networks) is a very successful shared-use manufacturing facility in Athens, Ohio that is kind enough to be guiding us in the development of this project.