Inventor of The Garden Edge tool, Chris Martin, contacted the Food Shuttle after reading the recent N&O article mentioning our community gardens. Chris wanted to donate a few of his multipurpose gardening tools to help us maintain our community gardens! Last week Chris stopped by our community garden at Alliance Medical Ministry to demonstrate how The Garden Edge tool [...]
Archive for the ‘Community Gardens’ Category
The Garden Edge
Posted in Community Gardens, tagged Alliance Medical Ministry, Chris Martin, Community Gardens, donate garden tools, The Garden Edge, weeding on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Raleigh’s Community Garden Growth
Posted in Community Gardens, tagged Community Gardens, North Raleigh News, Raleigh on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it yesterday, check out this article on Raleigh’s community gardens scene from the North Raleigh News! Emphasizing Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s 3 community gardens in low-income neighborhoods in Raleigh, the article discusses how neighborhoods and organizations are growing fresh produce for the hungry and teaching folks how to garden. Click the link [...]
Elizabeth’s Friday Full of Fun!
Posted in Community Gardens, Food Shuttle Farm, Steven's Blog, tagged Community Gardens, donate produce, Elizabeth's Friday Full of Fun!, Farms, Food Shuttle Farm, garden, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Steven Horton on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By: Elizabeth Stahl, IFFS Communication Intern Continuing to expand my knowledge of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, I learned food banks and food rescue organizations are quite similar. As you may remember from my previous blog post, I have a connection to MANNA Food Bank which works hand-in-hand with the Plant A Row program and community distribution [...]
Will Allen – back in Raleigh Monday and Tuesday!
Posted in Community Gardens, General, tagged Alliance Medical Ministry, Community Gardens, Growing Power, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Longview High School, Will Allen on April 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
You might remember back in November when Will Allen gave a lecture at the CEFS event on sustainable agriculture at the McKimmon Center. Well, now Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., is coming back to Raleigh on April 5 and 6 to hold urban farming workshops for students at Longview High School, and kick off Inter-Faith [...]
Veggie rap and Mayview pictures
Posted in Community Gardens, tagged community garden, Mayview Community Garden, pictures, video, Volunteer on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
A message from Steven
Posted in Community Gardens, Steven's Blog, tagged Community Gardens, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Steven Horton on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A quick garden update from Steven Horton.
Article in Midtown Magazine!
Posted in Community Gardens, Food Shuttle Farm, tagged Community Gardens, Midtown Magazine, Raleigh, Volunteer on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Raleigh’s Midtown Magazine just came out with an article for the January/February 2010 edition about our Farm and 2 Community Gardens! A huge thanks to Susan Ely (also a Food Shuttle volunteer!) for compiling a wonderful 3 page spread article for the magazine highlighting the growth of the Farms and Community Gardens project that broke [...]
Weekday volunteers needed at community garden
Posted in Community Gardens, Crew Call, tagged Community Gardens, Crew Call, Food Shuttle Farm, Raleigh, Volunteer on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew, Welcome back from the holidays; we hope you’re surviving the cold out there! Due to the bitter cold predicted over the next week we are NOT going to have a crew call this Saturday. However, we have quite a few things to do in the next few weeks [...]
