Lots of Food ~ A Garden for Every Body ~
Regenerating Rochester, NY
as The (Edible) Flower City
Creating Rochester’s Edible
Sub/Urban Green Space
When: Monday, March 4, 2013; 7-9 pm
Where: Greenovation, 1199 E. Main St., Rochester,
NY 14609
Sponsored by: Rochester
Permaculture Center
and Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
Space is limited, RSVP strongly
encouraged: (585) 506-6505 or patty AT barefootpermaculture.com.
Please also join the event on the Lots of Food Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/lotsoffoodrochester#!/events/133571640147192/
Participants will get
information on the plans to bring public food and beauty to the Rochester area and will be
invited to ask questions and share their ideas and opinions.
Permaculture is a
system of ecological design that shows us how we can meet human needs while
regenerating the natural environment around us. The desire to live and
model the ethics and principles of permaculture, calls us to action in a
community engagement project, Lots of Food. This program is inspired by
the Incredible Edible (IET)1 project of Todmorden,
England (http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/home)
and Pam Warhurst’s TED talk How We Can Eat Our Landscapes (http://www.ted.com/talks/pam_warhurst_how_we_can_eat_our_landscapes.html).
Lots of Food is a recently visioned program by Patty Love, Program Directory of
Rochester Permaculture Center. Through our creation of edible landscape
projects, big and small, we will grow more local food for ourselves and nurture
our community as we nurture the land and ourselves. Through this regenerative
work we hope to help create food security, neighborhood revitalization and
beautification, as well as build connections between a diverse group of people
within and outside of Rochester
area neighborhoods.
Vision: To grow Lots of Food into a community-wide project where we
share in the responsibility to create well-being for our planet and for all
eaters in and around Rochester NY while we work together to create access to
abundant healthy local, organic (or better food) for every member of our community,
share and develop personal knowledge and skills, create a resilient local
economy, and regenerate the land, water, and air spaces we steward.
Mission:
We create and support turning disused land into edible landscapes and utilize
appropriate technology to make visible the web of connection in our local food
communities from dirt to fork.
Please attend this meeting if you:
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are
or want to be a gardener and may be interested in volunteering for the project
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have
leadership skills and want to consider being part of the core leadership team
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have
mapping, web page, and/or social media skills to offer
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manage
an suburban or urban farm, community or institutional garden
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have
ideas on spaces and places for us to get started planting
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have
artistic skills to help us create educational signs
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have
writing skills to help us with many projects
“I’ve been
looking for a way to connect my passions around local food, environmental
stewardship, permaculture, and social justice,” says Patty Love, Program
Director of the Rochester
Permaculture Center.
“Two media stories came together that birthed this idea. One was
Pam Warhurst’s TED Talk. The other was watching a local news story
on how budget cuts were impacting local food banks. Thinking about all of
the fossil fuels and other resources used to get that food from the field
through the food processing and delivery systems, and eventually to the food
bank recipient, made me realize that it would be so much more efficient to just
plant local gardens to feed our hungry neighbors. Why mow our lawns and
other spaces when we could instead plant food?”
