Harvest Festival
When: *Friday September 8th, 4:00 p.m to Dusk* Where: * New Start Community Garden *(on Mogollon St. b/w Cherry and Dale near Downtown Flagstaff) What: *Food from the Garden, Recognition of this summer's FYG participants and supporters, Live Art, Hip Hop, DJ's, Slideshow, * Who: *2006 Flagstaff Youth Gardens program; **Sponsored by Native Movement, Flagstaff Foodlink, Project New Start* Family and Friends, You are invited to help us celebrate the first harvest from Flagstaff's newest youth garden on the site of the New Start School. The Harvest Festival is the culmination of work that began last May with high school students at Project New Start. At the end of the school year, Flagstaff Foodlink hired five students to continue working in the gardens through the summer. As a way to allow more of the community to participate, the program was then joined by Native Movement who hired on five Youth of the Peaks who united with the New Start students to create this summer's Flagstaff Youth Gardens interns. During the course of the summer, the youth worked four days a week building gardens from scratch, planting fruit trees, perennial food and medicine plants, built a cob bread oven, and, with the help of the Indigenous Youth Alliance from Phoenix, painted several murals that are now on display at the New Start Garden. Also, the youth implemented an edible/medicinal landscape at the Theatrikos Theater Company in downtown Flagstaff. At it's core, the intention of the gardens has been to engage area youth in the process of learning how to provide healthy food for their families and community. But as we began working in the gardens, it became clear that it was not just about growing food, it was about creating a vision for what we want our community to be. So in addition to the gardens, the murals and community bread oven demonstrate that artistic expression, building, and food production can be integrated to create community spaces where everyone's interests and skills can be incorporated and appreciated... We hope you can come help us celebrate our first harvest. Food will be provided from the garden, and a local restaurant will be baking pizza in the bread oven. Bring a dish to share if possible. You can contact me with any questions, or inquiries on how you can help out. With Respect, Brett Ramey *For more information on the program:* Flagstaff Foodlink: www.flagfoodlink.org/youth <http://www.flagfoodlink.org/youth> Native Movement: www.nativemovement.org Project New Start: www.flagstaff.k12.az.us/project_new_start/newstart.htm <http://www.flagstaff.k12.az.us/project_new_start/newstart.htm> <http://www.nativemovement.org> -- Brett Ramey, Coordinator Edible Landscape Initiative Bioregional Lifeways Network (928)310-8059 www.nativemovement.org [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of harvest-festjpeg small.jpg] ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
