Community Garden in Thomas County Teaches Children to Grow Food — and Brings Lessons Home

Growing goodness in community gardens

Happily, and in harmony with nature, people all over Winston-Salem and Forsyth County are growing vegetables, fruits, and flowers for themselves and their neighbors.

Learning, Leading and Growing: A Summer of Impact at San Carlos Community Garden

Youth Ambassadors prepare soil for garden plot renovation (Photo by Payton DeGroote/Special to Times of San Diego) This summer, the San Carlos Community Garden brought its mission of “Growing Community” to life through two summer-long programs that engaged young people at different stages of learning: the Youth Ambassador Service program for local high school students and Playtime in the Garden for children ages 3-6.These programs demonstrated t…

Food Policy Council Considers Community Gardens' Future

The city’s Food Policy Council is putting together a working group focused on how best to maintain New Haven’s community gardens — with the potential goal of asking the city to contract with a third-party organization to fill a gap left by Gather New Haven. That early-stage plan stood at the center of the Food Policy Council’s latest monthly meeting last Monday at City Hall. It comes in response to the financially struggling local environmental …

Community garden in Thomas County teaches children to grow food — and brings lessons home

A Thomas County community garden is teaching children to grow food and bringing those lessons home to local families.

Council pleas for community respect

MILDURA Rural City Council Mayor Ali Cupper is calling for the community to remain respectful following the “deeply disturbing” events of late last week. Many community leaders have echoed the call, expressing shock after learning that two 12-year-old boys suffered serious injuries on Thursday night when they were allegedly struck by a car in the […] Subscribe or Login to see the rest of the content.