April 24th, BB will return to the Hope Gardens for their official Ribbon Cutting, feel free to join us, share a meal and celebrate :)  We will do a short workshop on Edible Forest Garden 'TLC'.

I was out at Hope Gardens today and am continually impressed by the inspiration and motivation of the students working on this project, that intends to become an employment program for homeless folks. 

Grow your own greens, & reds, oranges, yellows…

Spring Vegetable Gardening Now! classes now open Enjoy fresh, colorful meals from your own garden Two sessions offered.

Choose your most convenient time

Taught by veteran gardener and food activist Alice Loyd

Saturday mornings 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 27 or April 10 @$15.00 Register

Happy New Year folks.

Good stuff from Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement, he addresses some interesting fallacies regarding stories we have been telling ourselves, warns about dependence on a knowledge economy and discusses the concept of 'resilience' in our ecosystems and economies.

http://permaculture.tv/rob-hopkins-transition-on-ted/

Beyond a Garden in Every School:In our schools today, we need to ask what we are training our students to see. We expect them to "go to art," "go to science," "go to physical education," and "go to English." We reinforce the notion that these categories can give us a neatly divided life, definitive knowledge, and a predictable and controllable experience. We are tied to schooling methods, in other words, that actively disintegrate the vital connections between things.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-07-13-young-farmers...

Bountiful Backyards will be facilitating hands on workshops (suggested donation $25) for the George Watts Montessori School's "Edible Schoolyard" project on Aug 1st and Aug 8th.  Please Join us, see details below and contact Alice to let her know you want to volunteer on one or both days that BB is facilitating and what tools you can bring.  Thanks yall!

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Dear George Watts families,

Goodbye Farmers Markets, CSAs, and Roadside Stands? Read more here.

Read what the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has to say here.

We would like to thank everyone who joined us for the Mushroom Workshop with Rytas Vilgalys.  It was the last of the Fall series and it was well attended with enthusiastic future mushroom growers.  This was one of the most hand-ons workshops so far and we really appreciated folks bringing their tools, your willingness to share and help each other as we learned together.  The more people growing mushrooms for their gardens and bellies, the better off our world will be; we hope folks will join us in the early spring for another one!  Check