Tag: community garden
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How Growing Sustainably is Growing
Author: Nancy Nguyen, Public Ally and CommUniverCity Project Coordinator Silicon Valley is expanding and urbanizing at an exponential rate as the tech industry gears up to be one of the most powerful entities in the country, leading to the boom of high paying tech jobs, housing development, and business and commercial development. However, as prices…
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Nutrition and Nurturing: Let’s Grow!
Author: Shelby Maidl Kids are natural nurturers. At Growing Sustainably, we see this in the way the youth gingerly touch the sprouting plants, the way they feel sad when pulling out a weed that is trying to grow, the way they jump in excitement when they find a giant beetle crawling out of the dirt…
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Why Nutrition Matters
Author: Trina Nguyen San José’s community of apartments, complexes, and crowded houses limit students to engage in nutrition and building community. Growing Sustainably has influenced students from Kindergarten to 6th grade on the importance and benefits of healthy lifestyles. Growing Sustainably has 4 sub-projects: Gardening Workshops, Gardening Club, Cooking Matters, and Neighborhood Harvest. With the…
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Bearing fruit with Garden to Table – Growing Sustainably
Our program and partnership Growing Sustainably – Garden to Table, was featured this Saturday August 3, 2013 in L.A. Times by Lee Romney on the story of how Garden to Table began, and how our efforts have addressed the issues of poverty, crime, neighborhood blight, and food security in the Central San José neighborhoods. We…
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Clearing Backyard for a New Neighborhood Garden
This weekend we partnered with Garden to Table and the Downtown Streets Team to engage community members to volunteer and help clear out our next neighborhood community garden. A wonderful couple shared their backyard for three households to transform into a neighborhood garden. These households and community members will be determined in the coming…
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Growing Sustainably – Garden to Table July 2013 Update
The weather may be getting warmer, but our Growing Sustainably: Garden to Table apartment gardens are still going strong, thanks to volunteers and community residents. Do you know an apartment that could be a potential site for our apartment garden project? You want to help build gardens with us? Join us at our next meeting…