Check out this awesome video of the kids at the Mayview Community Garden doing a rap! Also, here are some pictures of volunteers and kids from Mayview picking greens, playing with worms, and enjoying time together in the community garden on a nice spring day. Thanks to NC State student and Food Shuttle volunteer photographer, Graham Bruns, for taking [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Veggie rap and Mayview pictures
Posted in Community Gardens, tagged community garden, Mayview Community Garden, pictures, video, Volunteer on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This week’s Crew Call
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Alliance Medical Ministry, Community Gardens, Crew Call, Food Shuttle Farm, Volunteer on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve selected our third Hands on Health neighborhood and are ready to get it going! Come out Saturday and help us work at the new Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Community Garden at Alliance Medical Ministry. VOLUNTEER TIME & EVENTS: New Community Garden Work Day at Alliance Medical Ministry, Saturday 9am-12pm! This Saturday we [...]
New community garden means new opportunity for community building
Posted in Community Gardens, tagged Alliance Medical Ministry, canvassing, Community Gardens, Raleigh, Sun Butler, Volunteer on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hi, I’m Julia. I am a communication intern with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and have written a few blog posts on the Behind the Scenes blog about my first-hand experiences with the Food Shuttle! One of those experiences recently involved the Farm and Gardens crew. The work we did is more behind the scenes-type work, that [...]
Dig in! The down and dirty on community gardens
Posted in Community Gardens, tagged advocates for health in action, Community Gardens, Raleigh, Sun Butler on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On April 17th from 9:00am-12:30pm, you’re invited to join Advocates for Health in Action for an exciting event on how to build, maintain and sustain a community garden! The event is free and will be held at Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh. Inter-Faith Food Shuttle will be there (Sun and Amanda are presenting!), community garden [...]
Worms, Garden Night, and a video message from Amanda
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Community Gardens, Crew Call, donate produce, Farms, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Plant A Row for the Hungry, Volunteer on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew-Call That’s right, we’ve gotten our first order of worms in and will be working on starting our vermiculture project this weekend. We’ve got a lot of other things going on and ways to get involved, including a garden night in Mayview with the YMCA, a [...]
Meet some new PAR members!
Posted in Plant A Row for the Hungry, tagged Community Gardens, donate produce, Farms, garden, local food, Plant A Row for the Hungry on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You can put your roots down with the Food Shuttle, too! Become a PAR member by emailing Katherine Andrew, katherine@foodshuttle.org. Surplus fruits and vegetables from your garden can be used to feed our hungry neighbors. The PAR program makes it easy for neighbors to help neighbors! For those of you who have already signed up for [...]
Pictures from the Plant A Row kick-off
Posted in Plant A Row for the Hungry, tagged Logan's Trading Co., Mayor Charles Meeker, Plant A Row for the Hungry, Sun Butler on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Take a look at these pictures from Andy Beal at the Plant A Row for the Hungry Kick-Off last Saturday at Logan’s! You can view the rest of the pictures from Andy here.
Help get the spring gardens going!
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Crew Call, Volunteer on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew-Call Spring has finally arrived and we know you want to be outside! Bring your neighbor, friend, or family and join us this week in the gardens or at the farm. VOLUNTEER TIME & EVENTS: Farm Work Day , Saturday 9am-12pm! Come out and help in [...]
Plant A Row kicks off a new season!
Posted in Plant A Row for the Hungry, tagged Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Logan's Trading Co., Plant A Row for the Hungry, Raleigh on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over 115 folks signed up at Saturday’s Kick-Off at Logan’s to put their roots down with the Food Shuttle and Plant A Row for the Hungry! (click here to learn how to join!) We were thrilled to see many new gardeners and green thumbs alike take the pledge to be PAR members and donate some [...]
Come out and enjoy the weather!
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Community Gardens, Farms, Food Shuttle Farm, Plant A Row for the Hungry, Volunteer on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew-Call Spring has finally arrived and we know you want to be outside! Bring your neighbor, friend, or family and join us this week. Logan’s PAR kickoff is Saturday and we will be sending interested people over to Mayview to join in the fun. We’d [...]
