Category Archives: community food projects

Growing a Community Garden Workshop

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 18, 2010
WHAT: Growing a Community Garden Workshop WHEN: Thursday, April 22 at 5pm WHERE: Windmill Market, Fairhope AL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Edwin Marty, director of the Jones Valley Urban Farm in Birmingham, will be the featured speaker. His topic will be “Growing a Community Garden.” Edwin Marty is an ethno-botanist who, before taking a full-time role at [...]
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Food in Schools

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 26, 2010
As the parent of a child who will be entering kindergarten this coming fall, I’m in a position to be newly conscious of the quality of food in schools. Here are several items of interest: At Chews Wise, Sam Fromartz points to the blog of former reporter who spent a week in Washington, D.C. schools [...]
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Community Garden on Fairhope City Council Agenda Monday

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 24, 2010
The Fairhope City Council is scheduled to consider a resolution supporting a community garden at Stimpson Field at the City Council meeting at 6pm this Monday, January 25. At 5:15pm there will be a City Council work session at which the resolution will be discussed and perhaps voted on – or an alternative proposal presented [...]
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A Thought for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 18, 2010
If you follow any food communities in the blogosphere, you’ve probably been aware of the furor caused by an article in The Atlantic critical of the school garden movement. While I’m not going to delve into the specifics of the controversy, I did think this response to it at Civil Eats, Booker T. Washington on [...]
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Fairhope City Council Postpones Garden Resolutions

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 11, 2010
In late-breaking news, the Fairhope City Council removed the resolutions about community gardens from today’s agenda. They plan to address them in the January 25 meeting. Hopefully no one was inconvenienced by this.
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Fairhope City Council Meeting on January 11

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 10, 2010
The Fairhope City Council will meet at 6 pm, Monday January 11 at the Fairhope Municipal Complex, 161 N Section Street. At this meeting the members of the City Council will consider two resolutions of interest to the Local Food Production Initiative: A resolution supporting community gardens in Fairhope. A resolution supporting a community garden [...]
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Local Food Production Initiative Meeting on November 16

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 16, 2009
WHAT: Local Food Production Initiative general membership meeting WHEN: Monday, November 16 at 6:30pm WHERE: the parlor of the Methodist Church Christian Life Center, in Fairhope TOPIC: Elaine Snyder-Conn, Chair of the Community Gardens Committee, will report on progress to date in working for the establishment of community gardens and a youth garden in Fairhope. [...]
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Local Food Production Initiative Meeting on October 19

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 18, 2009
WHAT: Local Food Production Initiative general membership meeting WHEN: Monday, October 19 at 6:30pm WHERE: Windmill Market, 85 North Bancroft Street at the corner of Equality Street, in Fairhope TOPIC: Architects Mac and Gina Walcott, designers and owners of the Windmill Market, will present “An Overview of the Green Ideas and Community Garden at Windmill [...]
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The USDA’s October Initiatives

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 9, 2009
October has been a busy month so far for the USDA, with pleasing results for sustainable agriculture advocates. The organization has launched the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food program, “‘which centers on building buzz around local and regional food systems and “spurring economic opportunity’” (read more at Samuel Fromartz’s Chews Wise). “In the months [...]
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Local Food Production Initiative Meeting on September 15

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 12, 2008
WHAT: Local Food Production Initiative public meeting WHEN: Monday, September 15 at 6:30pm WHERE: the Nix Center, 1 Bayou Drive in Fairhope TOPIC: Ed Tunnel, retired Baldwin County Extension Coordinator, will discuss “Fruit Tree Cultivars for This Area.” ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: See “this archived post for more information on the Local Food Production Initiative”:http://gulfcoastlocalfood.org/2008/05/fairhope-local-food-production.html, centered in [...]
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