By Erika Allen | Chicago and National Director
Farming in the City in an old warehouse is never dull and our transition from winter to spring is filled with hard work and anticipation. We are sifting worm castings and beginning our seedlings for all of our Chicago Projects and here at Iron Street. We had the arrival of Mortimer Duke, a pygmy/dwarf goat to the delight of our staff, who considers themselves ‘Goat Mommas and Papas” I kid you not!
We are also proud to welcome the 2015 Farmers for Chicago who have begun planning and working on their projects to begin this spring. We are also launching the Fresh Moves mobile markets, 2 – converted city buses that will be rolling grocery aisles to serve food insecure communities. We are very pleased to be launching such an important and effect tool to bridge farmers with the customers who need good food access the most.
We are also now hosting the new school garden organization: Gardeneers, who work to provide classroom support for school gardens. Because of your support we had the capacity to support this new organization, which sources all of their compost, vermicompost and seedlings from Growing Power! A win-win for both organizations and most importantly the children who get to learn in the soil.
Through the remainder of the year we will look forward to continuing the great work made possible by supporters like you: providing hands on environmental education to local youth and adults through tours and volunteer opportunities, giving technical assistance to budding farmers and small farm enterprises; providing interns with meaningful work experiences, and growing good food for local communities. We hope to see you on a tour and deeply appreciate the support and encouragement you provide.
Growing Power is committed to serving on both a local and national level, and we hope you will continue to join in by lending your crucial support- both financially and otherwise. Stay tuned for updates on our continued growth, and as always, we‘d love for you to drop us a line and give us some feedback! Thank you for your continued support and input- it really does mean the world to us.
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