First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off
an extended Earth Week
with her visit to the New Roots Community Farm on Tax Day,
April 15, 2010. The Earth Week will culminate with
the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference April 24-25
at San Diego State University.
Michelle Obama's Visit will have a lasting impact here.
"The world is watching what is going on on this plot of land,"
said the mother of two who eats organic food in the White House.
Date: 4/17/2010 5:44:45 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 8338 times
About the Michelle Obama visit.
I need to prepare and leave for
Balboa Park.
There will be more than 70,000 in the park
today for the San Diego Earth Fair and
for the Multi-Cultural Earth Fair down the street.
The visit of our First Lady
was a history moment
that will influence the outcome
of the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
that will take place next week, April 24-25.
Amy lint, coordinator of the IRC New Roots Farm
will be part of that event.
She is part of our plannning team.
I am so grateful that I am getting to know her
and her family on more intimate terms because
of our interactions.
We had a party at her home last Saturday.
We started to get closer.
We have been interacted for about a year.
Our relationship started to blossom for me
at the party the Saturday before First Lady
Michelle Obama's visit.
I have admired her husband, the father
of her child, for more than two years.
I first met Malaki, her husband, when
I attended an event at the New Roots Garden
about one year ago.
My first visit to this land was about three years ago.
I have photos I need to find of the original Press Conference
before the groundbreaking. There were no plants
then on the property.
My 45th High School reunion was scheduled for
last night. I had planned to go for three years.
I was counting on going for months. Because of the
events of the last week, as the time came to leave,
I could not break away.
I have been writing night and day on the
upcoming 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference.
We are in a time of no business as usual.
There are many things going on
I want to blog about here at home.
It has been an incredible community building process
working with the planning committee.
More to say.
I need to go now.
More later.
7:13 am
April 18, 2010
I feel better now after slowing down to blog.
I have been in many historic places in my life.
I will say more about that later.
This is one of them.
I need to meticulously record these precious moments.
"We must take time.
We haven't a moment to lose."
--Dr. Bernard Jensen
OTHERE RELATED PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
FROM YESTERDAY
I am so grateful I took this time to get
my fingers going. Blogging calms and centers me.
I went to bed last night totally exhausted but
O.K. I had to reach out to Chef Jem,
my housemate for help to clear The EG Mobile.
I am clear enough now to made some calls
and get on with the day.
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MICHELLE OBAMA STORY
IN THE HUFFINGTON POST
April 17, 2010
AP - SAN DIEGO - Returning from Mexico, Michelle Obama made a brief stop Thursday in San Diego to visit a community garden farmed by international refugees that she called a model for building healthy communities across the nation and around the world.
Obama toured the New Roots Community Farm to promote her "Let's Move!" campaign against childhood obesity. The event kicked off a $1 billion project by The California Endowment to fund healthy living initiatives in 14 communities across the state, including the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, where the community farm is located.
Some 80 farmers from a dozen countries work at the 2.3-acre farm, a project of the International Rescue Committee that started in June 2009 on city-owned land. Many grow vegetables, like kale, that they grew in the native countries they left because of civil wars and other violence.
"It's a model for the nation, for the world," Obama said after touring the 89 plots, where she hugged the farmers, including a Somalian woman who had Obama's picture and a map of Africa printed on her traditional bright blue dress.
The garden provides fresh produce to the refugees and their families. Some of the fruits and vegetables also are sold at a farmers market and to local restaurants, giving the refugees some income. About 90 percent of the farmers have been unable to find a job because they do not have the skills or do not speak English.
Millions of children in the United States live in what Obama called "food deserts," places where there is no easy access to grocery stores or farmers markets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says about one-third of children in America are either overweight or obese.
HIGHLIGHTS
I DID NOT GET INTO THE EVENT
UNTIL AFTER MICHELLE OBAMA LEFT
I was enjoying the company of
those who came to visit.
Lots of photos.
Many delightful encounters.
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Ceccily Murray (front L) Keep The Beet Media Star,
The World's First Talking Beet Plant (behind me)
and new friends above us were all invited
to be my guests at the upcoming 2010 Cultivating
Food Justice Conference at SDSU, April 24-25.
We all met while our First Lady Michelle was in route
to wave hello to us. She came in from Haiti,
and Mexico to the final leg of her historic journey,
visiting the New Roots Community Organic Farm
in City Heights. Michelle had powerful things to
say about our garden.
QUOTE REPORTED ON THE IRC
WEBSITE ATTRIBUTED TO FIRST LADY MICHELE OBAMA
ON THE NEW ROOTS FARM
She said, "the world is watching what is going on
on this plot of land. You are truly doing phenomenal work".
She also said that the refugee farmers are making a healthier life for their children.
THE CHILDREN SHE CAME TO SEE
SPEAK UP AND INTRODUCE THEMSELVES
IN THIS VIDEO
I greeted children outside
the event as they came out.
I met them where the police and secret service
agents had placed roadblocks.
I did not know about the event in advance.
I found out about it when I called
Bill Tall the morning of the event.
There was an embargo on the event.
I was at a party with Amy Lint,
part of our 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Planning
Committee, the Saturday before
the Michelle Obama visit.
She was told not to tell anyone.
THE DELIGHTFUL CHILDREN
I MET OUTSIDE, WHERE THE GATEKEEPERS
HAD CREATED A SAFE ZONE FOR
OUR FIRST LADY.
I interacted with guests of the event
where the gatekeepers had set up
an protected zone for our first lady.
There were many people who had been given
invites to go into the event.
I stationed myself across the street,
where many gathered waiting for more
than an hour or two for the our First Lady to arrive.
There was a concerted effort to keep her
visit out of view. I am not sure when the location
was announced, or how so many people heard about
her visit. There were many who came.
I had a dentist appointment for 1 PM.
I arrived and found a parking space
around 12 noon. I did not have flyers with me
to share with the people who were gathering.
I called Virgilio Felix of the IRC. I could not reach him.
THE KIDS FROM VARIOUS CULTURES
I MET OUTSIDE
I invited these kids
to the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
April 24-25, 2010 at SDSU.
We will have kid activities too!
We need grandmas, grandpas,
moms, dads, and all who want
to tend our future seedlings
to volunteer to make this these
days they will remember.
First Lady Michelle deeply touched the lives
of all the children she met. We will
do the same at the 2010 Cultivating
Food Justice Conference.
LESLIE WITH MICHELLE OBAMa's KIDS
RECORDING at THE NEW ROOTS COMMUNITY
FARM, APRIL 15, 2010
KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR,
TALKING BEET PROJECT TO GIVE
KIDS and ADULTS CONFIDENCE
THEY CAN GROW THEIR OWN FOOD
GETS PROPS FROM MIKE BAYLESS
Mike Bayless is the Creativity Director
for the California Endowment. He
was a key player in organizing The
New Roots Urban Community Farm
for First Lady Michelle Obama's historic Visit.
Once the protective lines went down
and our First Lady had left,
the police and secret service left as well.
There was tight security.
We were all asked to stand across the street.
The police did an excellent job to make the
area secure. Thank you.
I had my strolling cart with me.
I made videos of a number of people.
The mood was uplifting and delightful.
I was interacting with many people.
At first, I was frustrated that I did not know about the
event in advance. I could have had more of an opportunity
to get in.
I had called Bill Tall of City Farmers Nursery.
It was not totally clear that it was Michelle Obama who was
coming. I felt intuitively it was our First Lady.
I have had an intention for many months to be her guest
at the White House organic garden.
I interacted with members of the California Endowment,
the organizers of the event at the two white tents
that had been set up outside the garden area.
Allison Biggar (L) in conversation with keep The Beet Media Star
The World's First Talking Plant. Keep the Beet was
giving her eval to Mike Bayless, Creative Director
of the California Endowment. Video of the event,
by Alison will be up online soon. Bayless plans to
take the Let's Move Project to other cities. Keep The Beet
gave suggested said she would like to see more
local, organic food served at future events to
further understore the very important California
Endownment on the ground. Keep The Beet,
the nation's Czarina of Food, said
she was "rooting" for the Endowment .
LESLIE WITH MICHELLE OBAMa's KIDS
RECORDING at THE NEW ROOTS COMMUNITY
FARM, APRIL 15, 2010
BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
A PROJECT OF THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
IS NOW BREATHING LIFE INTO CITY HEIGHTS
Government for good strategic funding
is paying off, says Keep the Beet,
a friend of the California Endowment
Is The Endowment focusing its next decade
of work primarily on children?
The next decade of The California Endowment’s work will prioritize investments in a limited number of places and will focus on improving the well-being of children - assuring their health, safety and readiness to learn - within neighborhoods impacted by poverty.
Recognizing that real health improvements are tied to systemic reforms beyond the size and scope of its grant making, The California Endowment launched the Center for Healthy Communities in 2006 to bring together community and civic leaders, health providers, advocates and policymakers in the quest for sustainable solutions to California’s critical health care issues.
REGIONAL OFFICE CONTACT INFO
OF THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
Headquarters/Administrative Offices
The California Endowment
1000 North Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tel: (800) 449-4149
Fax (213) 928-8801
E-mail: questions@calendow.org
Malaki Obado will be part of our Basics of Homesteading,
10 AM-11:15 AM Saturday April 24, 2010. Maps will
be available at registration. He lives in a small house
off 54th Street not far from the New Roots Community Garden.
He grows much of his greens and fresh food in his backyard.
He is part of the Urban Homestead revolution. His neighbor
two doors down is William Payton who is now a gardener!
Gardening is catching!!!
The workshop begins at 10:00 AM.
Our session will be videotaped
for Youtube. Please arrive on time. Limited seating.
Featuring Carolyn Chase, founder of Earth Fair; Bill Tall,
creator of City Farmers Nursery; Malaki; me, Leslie,
and a very special quest, a talking beet plant!!!!!
Don't miss this remarkable roundtable session,
with surprise guests, and don't be too surprised
if the famed chicken lady of San DIego, Shelly
Stewart, shows up too!!!
You, too, will be invited
to get passionate about backyard gardening,
and your Urban Homestead that begins in
one pot!!!!
BE PREPARED TO HELP OUT!
THIS CONFERENCE BELONGS TO EVERYONE.
"ONE BEET. MANY PULSES" are COMING
TOGETHER IN THIS LANDMARK MOMENT.
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER NOW!
The New Roots Garden,
one of the premiere San Diego Community Gardens
in a city that does not make it easy
to have a Community Garden,
is now in the national spotlight.
A LITTLE STORY
Willlam Payton is a neighbor of Amy Lint (R), the Coordinator
of the New Roots Community Garden. William's life has shifted
since coming under the influence of Malaki Obado and Amy.
They grow most of their food. He lives two doors down from
them. William Payton now waters the nursery at the
New Roots Community Garden. He mentors youth. On the
day of Michele Obama's visit, his likeable personality came
to the attention of the Secret Service who were there to make
sure our First lady was out of Harm's Way. They asked
Payton for help. He shared some personable moments with
Michele Obama, giving her a message from his mother.
She was glad to receive the message and smiled.
The message was "Hi!" They both laughed.
SOME HISTORY OF THE NEW ROOTS
COMMUNITY FARM
The International Rescue Committee (IRC)
and its San Diego leadership were among
the founders of the upcoming 2010 Cultivating Food
Justice Conference three years ago.
This profound community building experience
--the Cultivating Food Justice Conference--
is now heading into its third year and expands
into a two day event.
The IRC, one of the key groups
of community-minded activities
who started not only the Cultivating Food Justice
Conference also went through a long and difficult
process working with the City of San Diego.
The funding asked to secure
permits for the New Root Community Garden property
at Chollas and 54th co-sparked what is
now a 1-10 coalition. The 1-10 Coalition,
one of many groups at the upcoming
Cultivating Food Justice Conference,
will not rest until you too have a community
garden within walking distance of your house.
THE NEW ROOTS COMMUNITY GARDEN PLOT
Once a barren lot, I was there that day maybe
three or so years ago when
Ellie Igoe had a press conference to break ground
at a dusty lot of city-owned property in
City Heights. Under Ellie's leadership, City
Heights in now one of 14 designated Cities
in California that will share about one Billion
over ten years to help raise up its residents.
That money--around one million a year
over ten years--is earmarked for CIty Heights--
and will go for more than gardens.
It will go for education and other strategic
funding from one of my favorite groups,
The California Endowment.
PROPS TO THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
It was the California Endowment that
has been a key player in the success
of the New Roots Community Garden.
They were the group that organized
the Michelle Obama visit.
INFORMATION FROM AMY LINT
The California Endownment
gave $5000.00 toward the 2009
Cultivating Food Justice Conference.
Community minded workers
who now work for the IRC include Virgilio Felix,
and Amy Lint. They are part of this year's
2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
Planning Committee.
The current IRC leaders have big shoes to fill.
Egoe, a former IRC manager, was a great grant
writer and excellent relationship builder.
She turned $5000.00 from the California Endowment
into a flood gate of other funding for the local
city heights community. She is now living in
Texas.
BILL TALL
CITY FARMERS NURSERY,
PUBLIC HERO #1
That day of the press conference that launched
the first digging of the barren lot at 54th and Chollas,
was the day I first laid eyes on Bill Tall
the founder of City Farmer Nursery.
City Farmers Nursery is located nearby the
New Roots Community Farmer at Euclid and Home Avenue.
It was also Bill Tall who dressed up the stage
for the Michelle Obama event. He was one of more
than 200 hearing Michelle Obama speak on Tax Day.
WHAT DID MICHELLE OBAMA SAY
AT THE LET'S MOVE LAUNCH, APRIL 15?
What did Michelle Obama say? She told us to "Let's Move!"
She wants us to exercise. She wants us
to eat more fruits and vegetables. She
came to the New Roots Garden right from
Mexico and Haiti.
That original press conference a few years back
on that dusty field, that was the day I took a group picture of
people who did not speak English but deeply wanted
to garden. Now they are gardening.
The Media from NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS took pictures
of their plots, April 15.
They talked to some of the plot
holders who are implicated in the plot to
return our nation back to fertile organic locally
made soil. That in my mind is real Food Safety.
That in my mind is what the FDA needs to
be doing with us. Go ahead pass the #5-510
(FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act now coming
before the Senate. I hope it
gives you, my FDA allies, plenty of money to catch a plane
so you can all come West and learn to get rooted
with us.
Fast forward from that dusty empty weed filled
and barren lot at the corner of Chollas and
54th and what do you see today?
There are more
than 89 plots of gardens.
The only language that
the people their speak is in common is beet.
"One Beet. Many Pulses," that is the message
of the New Roots Community Garden, and in case
you may have forgotten, that was also the message
of that Lady who sits off Ellis Island, the Lady
Named the Statue of Liberty. She still tells the world,
when last I saw the plaque--
to come here and make a terror-free
melting pot of friends.
EARTH BASED ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Give people land to farm. Show them a beautiful
first Lady like they saw on Tax day, and you will
build a new America that is grounded
in "Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies and amber
waves of grain.' It is not not banking on Wall Street
that is going to save us. It is the Bank of Compost
that will save us.
William Payton, (L) works at the New Roots Garden with
Amy Lint and her husband Malaki Obado, a outstanding
bee keeper and aquaponics grower of Talapia. Payton
is a neighbor of Amy and Malaki and now waters
the nursery at the New Roots Garden, He was inspired by
Malaki, his neighbor down the street, who will be part of
the Basics of Homesteading Workshop 10 AM- 11:15,
at the upcoming 2010 Cultivating food Justice Conference.
Payton met Michelle Obama and
did some volunteer work for the Secret Service at the event.
Also in the photo is Charles Landon, who was the videographer
for acclaimed CBS-KFMB journalist Steve Price one of many local and out of town
media who came down for the event. Landon, a lover of
local and organic, expresses the unstoppable trend among those
in the media who are now going organic. Landon shops at
the Ocean Beach People's Food Store, where I too shop.
FACING THE FACTS
OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY
let us face it.
We still live in a disconnected world that desperately
needs gardens and for each of us to learn that
a trowel will likely be one of the most important keys
to giving Michelle Obama her Seed Dream.
What is the Seed Dream of Michelle Obama,
or First Lady who sleeps with that Nobel Peace Prize
Winner?
She wants a nation of kids that are healthy and have
good food to eat. Michelle, as well as Barack,
share that Peace Prize in my mind. She is the
woman in front of the man. She is the spark.
She is our hope. She is the mother who wants
better food for her kids and all kids.
HISTORY WAS MADE APRIL 15
and CULMINATED APRIL 24-25
at the 2010 CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE CONFERENCE
Here is another tidbit
for the Guinness Book of Records:
Michelle Obama may very well be
the nation's #1 Cultivator of Food Justice
and that was clear April 15. Look at the photos.
She hugs somalis. She builds bridges with people
of all color. she has friends in high places,
and shakes hands with people of all color,
including our very own mayor San Diego
Jerry Sanders.
Here is another tidbit for you:
History was made April 15 on Tax Day in San Diego.
That was the day our First Lady arrived from Mexico,
coming from Haiti to San Diego
to view the jewel of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)
The IRC New Roots Community Garden,
is now the pride of our city.
WHAT's NEXT CHARGER FANS
and UNCHARGER FANS?
HERE ARE EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED
The visit from First Lady Michelle Obama unofficially
opened Earth Week in San Diego. These are other
events that are part of my very own Earth Week.
SUNDAY APRIL 18
THE SAN DIEGO EARTH FAIR
in BALBOA PARK 10 AM -5 PM, APRIL 18
THE WORLDBEAT CENTER
MULTICULTURAL EARTH DAY DOWN
THE STREET on PARK BLVD, 11 AM-7 PM
Come ready to volunteer please.
HOW TO GET TO BALBOA PARK
ON SUNDAY APRIL 18
How to get to Balboa Park on Sunday:
Knock on the neighbor's doors.
If you are lucky enough to have any neighbors
of a different color or who look foreign to you,
knock on their door. Tell them that
Carolyn Chase, recently arrived back from
Copenhagen, this Sierra Club exec,
the future mayor of San Diego,
is staging an all-day Zero Waste Event in
Balboa Park, one of the most beautiful and
largest public parks in our nation.
Tell your neighbor that 60, 000 or more of your
future garden buddies and sisters,
are going to be in Balboa Park, not only only for Carolyn Chases'
Earthworks event. That event ends when we all help to clean up
the park better than we found it. Once you pick up your
share of papers to be recycled, walk down the
Street to the World Beat Center on Park Blvd.
where San Diego's First Lady, Madeda Dread Cheetom,
of Raggae Makosa fame, and the World Beat Ethno-Botany
garden, has invited Your Enchanted Gardener (that's me,
your humble Plant Your Dream blogger here),
to do the close on the
Pepper Grove Stage from 6 PM-7 PM.
Nature is also part of this.
HANDING OUT ORGANIC BEET SEEDS
I will be handing out organic beet seeds from Bill Tall
of City Farmers Nursery to anyone who has helped
Carolyn clean up Balboa Park and who promises
to clean up the turf around the World Beat Center
at 7 PM.
I am giving the beet seeds away free
so you can learn how
to grow food again.
AND THEN, AND THEN..
WHAT IS NEXT????
There are events all over town All Earth Week!
SDSU IS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD
SDSU HAD GREEN FEST EVENTS ALL WEEK
I am going to GreenFest, where Grant Mack,
AS Commissioner of Greenlove, and
the future governor of California; where Holly Hendershot
Kenzie Macdonald, Erin Lannon, (of E3), et al,
are helping with many others to stage five days
of fun and education on campus. Wear your dancing
shoes! Be sure to come to SDSU on Thursday--
The Official Earth Day--for a great, great, great
Farmers' Market and Business Fair. Take the trolley,
or Mass Transit.
BIOSMART BOOTH AT THE
SDSU EARTH FAIR
If you want to Root Your Dream, I will be
in a booth with Christina Russo of Biosmart
again handing out beet seeds in Compost Friendly
Sugar Cane Bagasse pots. You can also buy a
Coffee plant and start your very own indoor coffee
plantation that day!!!!
THEN WHAT???
MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!!!
for the 2010 CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE CONFERENCE
8 AM-5 PM +, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 24-25
Time to Volunteer again...
There are more than 100 of the finest humans and volunteers
who will then be teaching you--
at this totally free event. April 24-25, 2010,
not only how to plant those organic seeds, but
how to raise chickens, where to go to support local community
supported Agriculture (CSA), what to do with Greywater;and tell you
everything you need to know about real careers in real food.
DON"T MISS IT
The 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
will be one of the most important moments in the
history of San Diego for those who care
about a Bright Green Future here.
SAN DIEGO. CAN YOU DIG IT?
We are the city that is putting Integrative Medicine on the map.
You can go up to the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
right now and see a neon sign in at the Arcane La Jolla
that says "Homeopathy"
and where you can buy flower essences that heal emotions.
By the final dance on April 25, 2010, we are coming to
the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Confernence
to build momentum to have a neon sign down at
Diane Moss's People's Produce Project office off of
Euclid and Federal.
Harry S Truman, one of the my favorite presidents,
the one right after Franklin D. Roosevelt who started
Social Security, once said, The Buck Stops Here.
I am honored to live in the same city with the
lives of Mel Lions of the Roots Sustainability Food Project;
Bob Greenamyer of the Victory Gardens; Amy Lint, coordinator
of the New Roots Garden; Mariah Hudson,
Assistant Director, Center for Regional Sustainability
at San Diego State University; and Ian Miller, one of the guides
for the Food Not Lawns, organization.
I could list 50 more of the names of these local heros
on this blog. In future Plant Your Dream Blogs, I will.
Our Bottomline: The Buck Stops here.
We want you to show up and volunteer to help us
host that may turn out to become 1000 advocates
of Food Justice in San Diego.
LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO COME
The reg lines will be busy between 8 AM-9 AM
April 24, for the opening of the 2010 Annual Cultivating Food Justice.
CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME?
This event has no ticket, it is completely free.
We will gladly, for my vote, welcome you to pitch
in if you wish to help us make us our 2011
Cultivating Food Justice Conference even better.
INTENTIONS
We are San Diego.
This is our City.
This is the home of the IRC New Roots Garden,
and a city that will not refused to allow
any of our citizens to wake up hungry.
YOU CAN BRING FOOD TOO
Free breakfast and lunch
at our Conference.
All people deserve good food.
Come volunteer. Bring some potluck--local
and organic from a local farmers Market in case
we run out of food. No matter what,
there will be enough for all of us.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
MORE PRESS POSSIBLE
We are now heading into Earth Week.
I see a priority being more volunteers.
We are on track to have a lot of people at our conference.
Michelle Obama coming to the New Roots Garden
sets us up for more press.
Biosmart's Anthony Russo is a sustainability expert who is helping
200 small farming families in Asia through making this
wonderful alternative to styrofoam. Biosmart compost friendly
take out ware are made of sugar cane bagasse,
a byproduct that could be a waste. Through his efforts,
we know have an industry creating a wonderful green solution.
Anthony is Keep the Beet Media Star's lead on her "The End of
Stryofoam" campaign. His pots are the centerpiece of our planting
program with kids, and kids of all ages. We plant the beet seeds
in these pots, and prefer Foxfarm soil as the base.
Ordering the product at this link
helps support the Plant Your Dream Blog and
my many Non-profit projects,
including the new Diaglogue on Science, Ethics, and Food.
I just met Tina Koenemann
from Westbridge.
She tells me her company is often just called
Westbridge. Westbridge is short
for Westbridge Agricultural Products.
Her company manufactures Organic Liquid
Plant Nutrients, surfactants.
Tina is a cosponsor of the Dialogue on
Science, Ethics, and Food. She is also co-sponsoring
the Hamilton High Enchanted Garden Project, my own
contribution to the Hamilton High School garden now
in progress.
CERTIFIED NUTS! TERRA BELLA RANCH's YUMMY OFFERING
I have been admiring the products of Terra Bella Ranch at our Hillcrest Farmers' Market for weeks I enjoy their certified Organic Nuts.
Watch the Youtube here!!!!
HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET
SUNDAYS 9 AM-2 PM
at the San Diego DMV!!!!
Come see me most Sundays for a tour at 11 AM.
Meet the the JR Organic Stall across from the music.
Call me 619.384.2631 on my cell to find me.
CITY FARMERS NURSERY,
The place to go in San Diego
for a wonderful outing! Spent time with
one of San Diego's most delightful City Farmers,
Bill Tall and staff. Outlet for Exotica Rare Fruit Nursery
Trees, herbs, berries, and flowers. A favorite hangout
for Keep the Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
A place to come and Get Away with Being a Kid!!!
4832 Home Avenue (@ Euclid Ave) San Diego, CA USA 92105
Directions
Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm
NOW OPEN Sunday 9am-3pm
(619) 284-6358 http://www.CityFarmersNursery.com
PLANT YOUR DREAM BEET KEEPER BEET GROWERS
"We are all growing in the same pot,"
says Keep the Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
LESLIE GOLDMAN AKA YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
I am here helping by 11 AM every Sunday I am in town.
Call me for a tour to meet the Beet Keeper Farmers,
619.384.2631. With Water shortages and pressing
needs of local organic farmers, help us make sure that
every unit of food grown by Beet Keeper Beet Growers
goes where it is intended--your tummy!
JR ORGANICS, Joe Rodriguez Jr, and family.
Visit them at the Sunday Hillcrest Farmers; Market
9 AM- 2 PM every Sunday. http://www.jrorganicsfarm.com/about/
SAGE MOUNTAIN FARM and INLAND EMPIRE CSA,
Phil and Juany Noble, Justin Noble, and helpers.
Visit them at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market and many'
other locations.
HERE is ONE OF OUR BEET KEEPER GROWERS
PHIL NOBLE OF SAGE MOUNTAIN FARM
BEING INTERVIEWED. View KEEP THE BEET
MEDIA STAR, THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANTS.
BARRY LOGAN, La Milpa Organica Farm Community.
Hillcrest Farmers' Market every Sunday.
Potluck, third Sunday of the month at the farm.
We come together.
ROOT YOUR DREAM GATHERINGS
at the ENCHANTED GARDEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
4-7 PM, near SDSU, May 30, and generally once a month,
the last Sunday. RSVP only please, .
Email me or my cell if you need to be in touch,
619.384.2631. Please garden here.
Rooms coming available this summer and fall.
Waiting list.
KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR
THE WORLD'S FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT
LIVES HERE
Profile, Barry Logan, La Milpa Organic Farm Community Founder,
our keynote speaker Sunday afernoon. Meet Barry at the Hillcrest
Farmers' Market each Sunday. Buy all the food he and
all our treasured local, organic farmers grow. Eat up
and make sure the next person is eating well too.
Located on a small triangular lot located at 54th Street and Chollas Parkway in City Heights, a grass roots effort has taken hold to create a community farm for the surrounding neighborhood. Spearheaded by San Diego's Somali Bantu Community Organization, this farm plot will be the first of its kind for this neighborhood. It will provide fresh fruits and vegetables to the community and may also provide an economic opportunity to sell the produce local businesses.
Beginning in 2006, Hamadi Jumale, a Somali refuge, teamed with the San Diego office of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a non-governmental agency that assists refugees worldwide, to find and acquire a parcel of land that would give the women of his community an opportunity to produce something. Amy Lint, IRC’s New Roots Farm Coordinator and others who have worked closely with Jumale say that in addition to creating a much-needed outlet for the talents of the Bantu women, his efforts have established a link to their fading culture.
Open since mid-July, the New Roots Community Farm is a raw patch of land located on 2.2 acres of city property with the potential to supplement the diets of hundreds if not thousands of low-income individuals living in greater San Diego. Several other communities, including Vietnamese, Cambodian and Guatemalan groups, are taking part in the farm. This is an enormous opportunity for a community that does not always have even their basic needs met. These farms plots will provide not only sustenance but will also carry forth the tradition of numerous cultures who call City Heights home.
Project Information
Project Address: 54th Street and Chollas Parkway
Project Owner/ Developer: International Rescue Committee/New Roots Community Farm
Owner Contact Name/ Email: Amy Lint, 619-641-7510
Project Architect/ Designer: n/a
MORE GREAT HISTORY OF THE NEW ROOTS FARM
and THE IRC
Founded in 1933 at the suggestion of Albert Einstein, the IRC is the oldest and largest private nonsectarian voluntary agency dedicated to assisting refugees and victims of oppression and violent conflict. The San Diego office opened in 1975 in response to the influx of Vietnamese refugees into the area. Since then, the office has resettled over 20,000 individuals and established a comprehensive array of ancillary programs and services to augment the resettlement process. IRC San Diego assists clients in a variety of activities from renting a home and finding a job to financial literacy and micro-enterprise assistance.
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