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We’re Making A Garden (for real this time)!

Hey Everyone! Happy Spring! It has taken a year longer than expected but we finally have a home for the Loaves & Fishes Garden. This was a project that Slow…

07 Jul

Slow Food Berry Picking

02 Jul

Compost, Tomatoes & Berries, Oh My!

(Will Allen, Founder of Growing Power, Inc. stands atop one of their compost “mountains”) Cayuga Compost and Cornell’s composting facility have agreed to provide the compost/soil needed to fill the…

17 May

Let’s do Lunch (with Loaves & Fishes)

At our first potluck, those present agreed that a fun and worthwhile project would be to help Loaves & Fishes (www.loaves.org) establish a vegetable garden in downtown Ithaca near their…

14 May

Thanks for your enthusiasm & support!

Thanks for making our first public event a success! Because of the enthusiasm and interest in Urban Roots, we are going to try another film screening next month. It will…

10 May

FILM TOMORROW!!!

We have a great panel to lead our discussion after the screening of Urban Roots tomorrow evening. Please join us. It will be an exciting beginning to Ithaca’s 2012 urban…

03 May

FILM SCREENING: Urban Roots

We are teaming up with Finger Lakes Bioneers and GreenStar Community Projects for our first public event, a screening of the documentary, Urban Roots! It’s all about the amazing agricultural projects…

30 Apr

Spring

We had our first gathering last night. It was wonderful. Good food, fun conversation. We decided to move forward with our first project — to help Loaves & Fishes (a…

19 Mar