Community Gardens

Logan youth learning to become junior master gardeners

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While visiting West Virginia State University, BAPS youth leadership group also had the opportunity to participate in the Junior Master Gardening workshop with WVSU Extension Office. At the training we learned how to conduct hands-on learning activities for teaching gardening skills. We hope to share what we learned with Logan community members at the community garden this summer. Photos: Lida Shepherd

While visiting West Virginia State University, BAPS youth leadership group also had the opportunity to participate in the Junior Master Gardening workshop with WVSU Extension Office. At the training we learned how to conduct hands-on learning activities for teaching gardening knowledge and skills to people young and old alike. We will use what we learned to conduct our own trainings in the community garden this summer.  

Logan Community Garden

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Location

Logan, WV

United States

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During a week in March 2012, students from the Appalachian Center for Equality's mentoring program at Logan High School and students from  Sandy Spring Friends School worked together tilling the soil, weeding the beds, and planting and watering seeds.  Young children from the Head Start program at Logan PRIDE Community Service visited the garden and were taught by the high school students how to garden.

kiado cruz

Kiado Cruz, of the Autonomous Network for Food Sovereignty, Oaxaca, Mexico

DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE --- Twenty families with rooftop gardens may not sound like a lot, but when they are part of a rising social movement they can shake Mexico and the global corporate food system.  That was the message from Kiado Cruz, a community organizer from Oaxaca, Mexico, who finished his 3-week New England tour in Durham, New Hampshire on October 29.  

Family in the garden

"Although we struggle every day to survive, we can still work and produce vegetables for ourselves and our families.... We want to share the fuits of our own work and efforts."

On August 25, 2010, the final cucumber harvest took place in the 360 m2 greenhouse within the community garden MALA BAŠTA at tached to the CGA Resource Center. Mirsad Alađuz, Nazif Smajić and Šerif Puteša led the greenhouse production this year. It is a great satisfaction for the
greenhouse leaders and gardeners, and tremendous joy to the CGA, to have harvest of those proportions. According to agricultural experts, the cucumber harvest was extraordinary this year, and it exceeded all expectations.

On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, Ms. Ellen J. Kennedy, executive director of the World Without Genocide, and Ms . Randi Markusen, who serves on theboards of the World Without Genocide and the Post Genocide Education Fund and is the founder and director of Rwanda Reads, visited the Resource Center of the Community Ga rden s Association (CGA) at Stup. Upon the initiative of Ms. Velma Saric, from the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, this opportunity was used to show the guests our community-based programs addressing the post-conflict reconstruction, reconciliation and healing in practice.