-Merry
We are college students from New Jersey planning to initiate a community garden project in the Parkhill/Stapleton area of Staten Island, NY. Parkhill is home to the largest population of Liberian refugees outside of West Africa. The surrounding communities contain a diverse group of members from a variety of economic backgrounds and ethnicities. We intend to work with community members and volunteers to create a safe, productive, and eventually self-sufficient space to grow great food!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
As spring starts the Roots of Peace Community Garden is preparing for the busy season ahead. After learning that our project was chosen by the Kathryn Davis 100 Projects for Peace, we briefly celebrated then were off to form new partnerships and take more definitive steps in creating the garden. We now have several dozen donated seed packets waiting to be seeded in April and pots waiting for them. It is so exciting to watch how the project is taking shape through the organizations we have made contact with and the people we have met along the way. We are still looking for interested participants so fill out those participation forms and get back to me with any questions!
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