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New Food System Model Launching Saturday November 21st
Ready, set, go MARK YOUR CALENDAR for a great family outing! We are breaking ground and planting a peach tree at the p.e.a.c.h. Community Farm on Saturday November 21st. I will tell you where the farm is in the next weekly news ~ hint it is 20 minutes south of down town. P.e.a.c.h. is launching a new food system model right here in Spokane County. Yes that sounds all technical but basically we have come up with a smart way to gets lots of local food produced and eaten right here. One of our first priorities is to get a lot of the first food produced to thousands of residents in Spokane who are low-income. You can visit the farm to pet and adopt a goat along with learning about p.e.a.c.h. programs, all of which are focused on getting more local food into production.
Farm Hands Program
Join our Farm Hands program that redirects non-payroll labor hours that already exist in the community into local food production. We work with the Department of Correction, Juvenile Justice, Welfare to Work programs, churches, youth groups, boy scouts, universities and regular volunteers like you. In 2009 we worked with 630 volunteers and in 2010 we will need several thousand volunteers. Come out on November 21st and find out how you can lend a hand.
YOUF - Young Organic Urban Farmers
Learn about YOUF ~ Young Organic Urban Farmers ~ a new p.e.a.c.h. program launching in the spring of 2010. We will select a handful of low-income youth and give them jobs for the season on the farm. These youth will plant, harvest, and market produce to their own neighborhoods.
p.e.a.c.h. Community Farm Stands
p.e.a.c.h. Community Farm Stands Another new program for the 2010 season are the neighborhood farm stands. One evening a week in West Central, Hillyard, One World Café Community Garden, the YMCA on Monroe, and on the Southhill that has yet to be sited, p.e.a.c.h. community farm produce will be for sale. If you have a food stamp card (now also known as a SNAP card) you will get a steep savings when you by your fresh local farm products at one of the stands. If you pay regular price then you will know your money goes back into the program to help feed your low-income neighbors!
More & Goats Too
We have more in the works so come to the farm on November 21st and learn what a smart food system looks like. The p.e.a.c.h. Community Farm will have a full bedding plant operation, produce production, milk parlor, cheese making/value added kitchen, site for apprentices to live year round, and a classroom. We have the farm, now we are ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work. What we need from you is time and money, a little or a lot. We are calling all EATERS to come join the fun as we learn to feed ourselves here in Spokane County.
Next Community Roots Market - Saturday November 14th
Community Roots Market news We are going back to the original concept and will now do the markets once a month on on the Second Saturday. Next market will be November 14th.
Green Smoothies Class - Tuesday November 3rd
Green Smoothie or bust I am still drinking lots of green smoothie everyday. I have not gotten sick yet! I am amazed given that I have been working around the clock writing grants for the new farm! Next Green Smoothie class is November 3rd, 6PM at Fresh Abundance.
Next weekly news we will have more from Tara on her adventures in human chemical exposure.
Crazy for local food! Brightspirit
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