O'k CSA Creatively Supported Art and Culture In our Gardens, our Minds and our Bellies: 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

Winter planning for the Community Gardens....

What does PERMACULTURE have to do with Community Gardening? Contact us and find out about the upcoming Permaculture Design Course(PDC), you may wish to join us for a winter planning and study!

The PDC will include student design projects that include our Community Gardens, the Youth-Market Garden CSA, a Forest and Perennial Vegetable Garden at our Historic Barns Park site....AND, our efforts to spread community gardens around the Traverse City area....beginning with a tiny Community Garden on Front St.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

May 22nd Skill-Share and Community Garden Celebration!

This is a family-friendly event and there will be something for everyone to learn and to participate in....

from building a garden, growing food in your front or, backyard, a Plant Swap and Seedling Sale,

to fine-tuning your Nature Awareness skills, we are offering simple ways to become more self-reliant

and earth-friendly in this day-long Skill-share and Community Garden Celebration.

WHERE: The Little Artshram Community Gardens at the Historic Barns Park

near the Munson Woods and The Village of Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City

TIME: 10am until 7pm

Skill-Share Workshops: 10-3 pm, hourly

Community Garden Work-share projects: on-going, and 3-5 pm

Community Garden Potluck and Near the Barn Dance, 5-7 pm

This is an all-day affair! SO, bring a sack lunch and something to

drink, and a dish to share for the evening potluck.

ALSO, this is a ZERO-Trash event. Pack it in, Pack it out!

COST: $5.00 suggested donation per workshop, (Kids, free) thanks!

Check out the final Skill-Share schedule and summer gardening news on our blog at: www.littleartshram.org
We have a few garden plots available, contact our volunteer coordinators: tccommunitygardens@gmail.com

Urban Farming Collective

The Urban Farming Collective is a project of Little Artshram, and extends an invitation to any community member or organization to join in on our efforts of implementing projects and growing Community Gardens, "YARDens", thriving Farmer Markets, augmenting our local currency Bay Bucks with a Farm-Bank, and also with a community-wide effort of creating a Food Security Plan for Traverse City.

To support these projects through the Urban Farming Collective, we are pleased to have on-going support
through Little Artshram's non-profit Board and Advisory Circle, work in collaboration with Traverse City
Transition Town, have interest and support of the City of Traverse City and Garfield Twp.; and other local organizations supporting grass-roots, based organization that furthers
our collective understanding of sustainability and resiliency.

The Little Artshram Community Garden is located near the historic Barns that were once part of the working 54-acre, self-sufficient agricultural farm of the old state asylum. This beautiful green-space, just west of downtown Traverse City, has been described as our version of New York City's Central Park.

The Cook’s House Community Garden site broke ground in 2009, with additional planning work by Chef Eric and Chef Jen of the Cook’s House, and the Little Artshram Youth-Market Gardeners.

We are working to make this garden space, not only a no-till zone, but also a no lawn-mower space! We would like to extend the gardens and put in 4-5 more beds along the south area that is laid out as grass-land, beyond the brick, utility building.

For more information on the Urban Farming Collective, Little Artshram Community Garden or the Cook's House Community Garden, visit our webpage and contact us:

www.littleartshram.org

communitygarden@littleartshram.org

You can also get UFC updates at:
http://littleartshram.zatchs.com/urbanfarmingcollective/