Will Allen and crew is going to Detroit ! We will be conducting a training workshop on vermicomposting and hoop house construction as part of an outreach training. Detroit Black Food Security Network is a recent Regional Outreach Training Center of Growing Power.
http://detroitblackfoodsecurity.org/allen.html
Friday, June 4, 2010, 7:00 pm Will Allen lecture
Location: Nsoroma Institute, 20045 Joann Street, Detroit, MI 48205
(3 blocks S. of E. 8 mile, 4 blocks west of Schoenherr St.)
Price: $20.00 per person
Saturday and Sunday, 9:00am to 6:00pm
Workshops at D-Town Farm at Rouge Park
Location: W. Outer Dr. between W. Chicago and Orangelawn
Subjects: Hoop house Construction and Vermicomposting
Workshop cost is $100.00 for both days, which includes Continental breakfast and a full lunch each day.
Recent graduate of GP Commercial Urban Agriculture Training 2010, Jackie Hunt and Marilyn Barber took a few moments during their April training to share their story:
It’s planting season ! Now is the time to start your garden. We have a variety of tomatoes, peppers, cauliflowers and more!
We started all of the seedlings from our green houses back in April, now they’re ready for your gardens. Seeds were started in our recycled sprout mix, and top dressed with worm castings (worm poop) every other day to naturally and organically fertilize.
As Will likes to point out it’s not about the green thumb, it’s the soil.
Stop by today at 5500 W.Silver Spring Dr. Milwaukee . We’re open 7 days a week. We’re open on Memorial Day too!
9AM – 4pm
2 packs for $1.25 4 inch pots $3.99 or 2 for $7.00
“As corporate entities continue to extract natural resources from the earth, whether on sea or land, there needs to be a shift in calculating the true costs of “production”. Risk management assessment needs to also include: costs associated with climate degradation both in terms of increasing fossil fuel and mineral use and, of particular interest in this latest disaster, the high costs of environmental racism.
“A colleague of mine, working in New Orleans (Nat Turner of the Blair St. Grocery Project), in a discussion about the oil spill and impacts on the ecosystem pointed out that this is poised to be a La Nina year with increased risk for powerhouse hurricanes that will suck up the oil and dump it all over an already devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. These hurricanes don’t need to make landfall, they just need to send oil-laden water to shore. This looming disaster, this transference of the millions of gallons of oil to shore, is something no one is calculating.
“We must demand corporate reparations and a full re-hauling of inspections and development of environmentally sound risk management and disaster preparedness plans for offshore oil drilling in our fragile seas.”
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