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[Market-farming] Re: Community gardens and sidewalk bistros
- From: CAVM AT aol.com
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Community gardens and sidewalk bistros
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:16:26 EST
A local coffee shop (Heine Bros) and the Hispanic Women's Group in
Louisville, KY have agreed to work together with us in developing
neighborhood gardens and locally produced meals. We are working out an
arrangement with the city of Louisville to obtain the right to use many of the
vacant lots scattered around the city's older neighborhoods.
We will remediate the lots and provide a healthy growing environment for
the Hispanic Women's Group and other interested parties to grow vegetables,
herbs, flowers, or just have a small park. One of our crew is a commercial
kitchen inspector and will try to bring the old cafeteria kitchen in a former
Catholic school up to standards for value added processing of some of the
produce.
We envision several commercial kitchens eventually and all producing
locally demanded meals and menu items. The emphasis will be ethic meal
items since the area is so cosmopolitan and this seems to offer the best profit
potential. We expect to have to supplement the city production of
vegetables with items from the farms in the state.
I am warmed by the description Steve Diver gave of the Portland area.
I have enjoyed my visits there and would very much like to see their community
attitude brought to Louisville.
While our role will be as facilitator and composter, we have a strong
attachment to this project. We are gratified that a local business has
agreed to be the core of it. What this will be is a sort of movable
farmers' market, CSA, neighborhood uplift program. We expect the plantings to
begin this Spring.
Any suggestions and comments would be welcome.
Regards,
Neal Van Milligen
Kentucky Enrichment Inc
GO, Inc dba Growing Opportunties
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:53:10 -0600 |
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[Market-farming] Re: Community gardens and sidewalk bistros,
CAVM, 02/13/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Re: Community gardens and sidewalk bistros, Karen Sutherland, 02/13/2005
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