Community Healing Gardens’ Volunteer Day: Sat. March 25, 2017
Meet up at Vera Davis Center, 610 California, Venice
Time: 9am to 1pm
Details:
- Some of our raised garden food boxes are finding a new home from the Vera Davis Center to Venice Oakwood Rec Center.
- Our Farmer Ben will be leading us with planting instructions and tips for gardening while meeting new friends.
- We will have breakfast treats provided by Whole Foods Market #Venice, Organic Coffee byGroundwork Coffee Co. and we will provide H2O.
- Come dressed in clothes to plant, wear comfortable shoes (sneakers), a hat to shade you and bring a reusable water bottle too.
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About Community Healing Gardens: We believe every empty patch of soil has the potential to feed and educate people about nutrition, connection and love. Community Healing Gardens is a non-profit organization creating community through urban gardens, providing food for those in need and educating our culture about the importance and urgency of a planetary and human health. Community Healing Gardens launched in Venice Beach, CA in 2015 and focuses on Los Angeles Community.
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- We create urban gardens to provide sustainable, nutritious food to diverse and underserved communities.
- We believe every corner with a patch of soil or some empty space has the potential to feed a community with nutrition, connection and love.
- The food grown will be shared amongst the community and provide access to healthy and fresh food to children and others in need.
- Our goal is to create organic gardens in schools throughout the L.A. Unified School District, to educate and introduce the importance of nutrition, health, food safety and environmental sustainability.
- Our hope is this will lead to healthier food options in the lunchroom as well as nutritional programs, enterpreneurship skills and urban farm job training.
- We have begun our pilot school program this summer at Edwin Markham Junior High School in Watts Los Angeles, building an urban farm on an acre of land with fruit trees and veggies. Watts is 2.12 square miles and a known “food desert”
- We also built last school year a raised box garden at 61st Street Elementary School in South LA for the students, teachers and staff to grow with our support along the way.
- We currently work with a community center right here in the heart of Venice, The Vera Davis Center that takes care of the underserved children and their families in our community.
- We have several non-profit partners that create programs with us ecspecially educational programs to incorporate the gardens we build into living classrooms.
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For more info: http://www.communityhealinggardens.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communityhealinggardens/
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