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Re: [Market-farming] Re: Community gardens and sidewalk bistros
- From: Karen Sutherland <ksutherland AT hampshire.edu>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Community gardens and sidewalk bistros
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:32:00 -0400
Sounds like a great project.
You may be interested in a similar project started more than 10 years
ago in Holyoke, MA and getting better all the time:
www.nuestras-raices.org
All best wishes,
Karen Sutherland
*Karen Sutherland **
**Roots Farm**
Organic Produce : Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs*
Cockrane, Dominica
767-449-3038
rootsfarm AT marpin.dm <mailto:rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
CAVM AT aol.com wrote:
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
www.kentuckyenrichment.com <http://www.kentuckyenrichment.com>
cavm AT aol.com <mailto:cavm AT aol.com>
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[Market-farming] Re: Community gardens and sidewalk bistros,
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