GVI Garden Builds

 

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Hallen Elementary    68 Omega Street, Bridgeport, CT

10am-2pm

Join students, teachers, and Builder Beyond Borders at GVI’s edible school garden build. Stay for an hour or come for the whole day!!! Please bring shovels, rakes and WHEELBARROWS! — but mostly, just bring yourselves.  Any questions, contact Monique at moniqueb@optonline.net.

Live Green Connecticut    Taylor Farm Park, Norwalk, CT

Saturday  10am-4pm / Sunday  11am-4pm

Connecticut’s premier, green-living festival. Featuring local green initiatives and porjects going on in the communities across the state. Over 200 exhibitors. Music. Fun activities for the kids. Free admission.

Discovery Magnet   1450 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, CT

10am-2pm

Join students, teachers, and Builder Beyond Borders at GVI’s edible school garden build. Stay for an hour or come for the whole day!!! Please bring shovels, rakes and WHEELBARROWS! — but mostly, just bring yourselves.  Any questions, contact Monique at moniqueb@optonline.net.

September 2012

September 15th

September

15th and 16th

September 29th

Batalla Elementary    600 Howard Avenue, Bridgeport, CT

10am-2pm

Join students, teachers, and Builder Beyond Borders at GVI’s edible school garden build. Stay for an hour or come for the whole day!!! Please bring shovels, rakes and WHEELBARROWS! — but mostly, just bring yourselves.  Any questions, contact Monique at moniqueb@optonline.net.

Reservoir Urban Farm     1469 Reservoir Avenue, Bridgeport, CT

9am-4pm

Join us as we BREAK GROUND at the much anticipated Urban Farm on Reservoir Avenue. We will start building what will soon be over 100 32 ft. garden beds. The food grown there will help feed the local community and provide nutritious food to the Bridgeport School cafeterias. The farm will also act as a HUB for the edible gardens we have built at schools around Bridgeport. We'll supply the tools and hope you can bring your enthusiasm and helping hands to make this a wonderful beginning to an ambitious pioneering project. 

Any questions, contact Monique at  moniqueb@optonline.net.

Fixing The Future      Westport Public Library,  Westport, CT

7 pm

Fixing The Future, hosted by David Brancaccio, of public radio’s Marketplace and NOW on PBS, visits people and organizations across America that are attempting a revolution: the reinvention of the American economy. For more information, go to fixingthefuture.org

WinterFest 2013      Christ & Holy Trinity Church, Westport, CT

Details to follow. Invite will go out in early December. If you would like to join our host committee or become a sponsor, please contact Deirdre at deirdredp@optonline.net

October

October 13th

October 20th

November

November 12th

January 2013

January 26th

 

GVI Project and Volunteer Opportunity this weekend

This Saturday we will BREAK GROUND at the much anticipated Urban Farm on Reservoir Avenue in Bridgeport.
Hope you can join us as we start building what will soon be over 100 32 ft. garden beds.
The food we grow will help feed the local community and provide nutritious food to the Bridgeport School cafeterias.
The farm will also act as a HUB for the edible gardens we have built at schools around Bridgeport (15 to date).
We'll supply the tools and hope you can bring your enthusiasm and helping hands to make this a wonderful beginning
to an ambitious pioneering project.
We will gather at the site this Saturday, October 20th at 9 am.
1469 Reservoir Avenue, at the corner of Yaremich Drive.
Hope to see you there!!!
questions/more info., 
contact Monique Bosch,
moniqueb@optonline.net
check out our website:  www.gogvi.org

Workshop

Glean Team Update This season, Millstone's volunteer Glean Team harvested approximately 1,000lbs of excess crops, including kale, tomatoes, and summer/winter squash, from our own fields and at The Hickories in neighboring Ridgefield. After each gleaning, our bounty is picked up by food runners from local nonprofit,Community Plates, and distributed to those in need. Millstone Farm is a 75-acre working farm in Wilton, CT. We are helping rebuild our food community through small scale agriculture, educational activities, and events. We raise pastured heirloom breed sheep, pigs, and poultry, and grow vegetables for our CSA, local chefs, and family owned markets. Upcoming Workshops  Pickling & Preserves Sunday, October 21: 1pm - 4pm Cost: $30; RSVP to katie@millstonefarm.org or call (203) 834-2605 Millstone's resident farmer, Annie Farrell, and our good friend and CSA member, Tracy Castelli, will demonstrate several techniques for preserving the harvest. Refrigerator pickles, spicy pickled beans, and sweet berry compote are just some of the recipes we'll prepare and sample. This will be a hands-on learning experience right here in our kitchen, so be ready to get a little pickle juice on your hands!   Nutrient Dense Gardening (2 day workshop) Saturday, October 27: 9:30am - 4:30pm andSaturday, March 16, 2013: 9:30am - 4:30pm Cost: $150; Register at bionutrient.org Presented by Dan Kittredge, Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association and the Real Food Campaign, the workshop will help participants grasp and apply Dan's innovative and reliable principles and practices for producing healthy crops, higher yields, and more nutritious fruits and vegetables. The workshop is suitable for farmers, growers, and gardeners of all types.   For a detailed description of the workshop, and to register, visit www.bionutrient.org. Substantial financial assistance is available to farmers and others who wish to attend. Contact the course administrator, Gary Neves, for more information. Thanksgiving Turkeys... Going Fast! Due to an enthusiatic response to our August newsletter, Millstone Farm's pasture-raised Thanksgiving turkeys are almost sold out! Email your order asap to katie@millstonefarm.org and make sure a Millstone bird is the centerpiece of your holiday spread.  forward this email to a friend  Copyright © 2012 Millstone Farm, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you requested information on Millstone Farm's workshops and/or pasture-raised meats. Our mailing address is: Millstone Farm 180 Millstone Road Wilton, CT 06897 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

Please join me!

School Garden Cookbook

Cooking With California Food, by Alice Tebo

See link above for a great cookbook!

Tokeneke Pesto!

Pesto from the Tokeneke Garden sold at the Pumpkin Carnival! Excellent!

What's Happening At Hindley?

We had a great session yesterday with another 5^th grade class.  We planted mesclun seeds.  First we talked about them, fun and interesting facts, then the kids went into the garden  where we had three stations:  planting the mesclun; the “perfumery”—where they  learned about the herbs like lemon verbena, scented geranium and patchouli, and the kids rubbed the leaves on their wrists for perfume and cologne; and finally “what went wrong here”, where we took some collard greens bought from the store and compared them with two collards that got infested with cabbage worms.  Taught them a little about organic farming, and ways to control pests, that sort of thing.  We finally ended up the session with a “jalapeno challenge”, where we cut up bell peppers and then jalapeno peppers and those brave enough to try them did, and learned about the difference in heat between peppers and how they are measured by scoville units.  It was a great day!