Topic: Grow Food Party Crew
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yo Devin!
we are READY for a garden party at West Campus! (on the empty end of the hillside, where we had our musings and brainstorming about what could happen there ... maybe twenty yards beyond the area where the raised bed garden will eventually go.)
I got the temporary waterline in last week ... and now all we need is a party to bring in a couple of pickup truck loads of aged horse manure -- or equivalent value of composted chicken or rabbit manure --
over say a 12 feet by 20 or 40 ft area --
and a couple of wheelbarrows to haul our topsoil mix from across campus ... and we can lay down the compost and topsoil and plant corn and bean seeds ... which I can soak in water a couple of days in advance.
and maybe lay down some wood chip mulch on top.
[I am not turning over any soil, just putting heavily rich soil on top of existing ground, for our interim 2008 garden. and not laying down any gopher mesh barrier ... just going simply this year.]
I also have winter squash seedlings, which will be ready to go into the ground in a couple of weeks.
Millennium Twain cell 558-0848 office 646-9218 |
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correction: West Campus telephone is 649-9218
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Hey everyone!
Here's a bit more info about the Grow Food Party Crew and how you can join us and create parties in your neighborhood.
Again, what we do is throw parties in which we get together to hang out and eat good food and play music AND implement an amazing permaculture design at the party location. This can be anywhere - a home, shcool, business or other community organization.
Ultimately, all it takes is an individual committed to a garden party happening - they send out the message through our wiserEarth group (www.wiserearth.org/group/growfoodpartycrewventura), and other people join in on the party. The people running it can request help in designing the space, or facilitating the party, or just invite people to party and work with them!
For those who don't know, we just switched to using this open form with wiserEarth as our hub, so go ahead and share the invitation to anyone who could be interested. Also, we will be creating a group specific to Ojai and Santa Barbara (and more) in the near future - but everyone is welcome to join any group and help out with ideas or implementing projects.
Also, we are committed to creating 100 edible gardens during 2008. So far we have 5. That is just a fraction of what we need, but I am sure it will happen. Really, with all our resouces and creativity this could happen in a week. Will you join us in playing this game fully - knowing what the impact will be on our commmunity? How many gardens are you willing to take on yourself?
And for redundancy's sake, go ahead and email us at growfoodpartycrew@gmail.com">growfoodpartycrew@gmail.com to get on our mailing list.
Have the best day ever!
Devin of Grow Food Party Crew
PS You can also check our our myspace (www.myspace.com/growfoodpartycrew) for more info and get connected through that community as well - although the main activity will still be through wiserEarth. Cheers!