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Master Gardeners Grant $1,300 to Carolina Peace Common Ground |
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Written by Lori Donath
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 09:57 |
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 The SC Midlands Master Gardener Association has granted $1,300 to the Carolina Peace Common Ground Workgroup to support instructional expansion of its three existing projects: the Edisto Court Community Garden, the Rosewood Community Garden, and the Summer Children's Workshop Series.
During the past three years Common Ground has sought to
increase community access to healthy food through community gardening and education. We
have learned that many people are eager to become growers, but often feel dumbfounded by the process. The grant will fund the addition of a raised bed system that will facilitate step-by-step
instruction,
fruit trees that prove the possibility of urban orchards, and signage
that explains what is going on in our compost bins (among other
things). As a result, our community gardens will better serve as year-round, practical instruction for realizing a positive vision of peace, centered on our basic human needs. The
project will provide citizens of Columbia with tools for making soil
and growing food for them selves, whether in their own yards or in
community gardens. It will also provide elected officials with a model
they might replicate at recreation and community centers, where community members could directly make use of their common spaces to grow food. Following
completion of the project community members and public officials will
be invited to a demonstration on composting and growing.
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