College Park Market (ECO-Action project from 1999-2005)
Can't
you just smell these flowers!
This photo is a nostalgic memory of several fun and fulfilling evenings together in the park.
After closing the College Park Farmer's Market, we were making plans to implement ideas for a Community Garden, a new organization in town was starting up a Community Garden as well. So, we pulled back and have been supporting them. They have some property at 604 N.Thornton Avenue, one block south of Colonial. They run workshops from time to time, conduct classes, and have cooperative garden work days, as well as a worm bin for recycling the food waste from Dandelion Restaurant. They are the Florida School of Holistic Living and have a web site which will give you more information as well. www.holosticlivingschool.org
This includes hands-on demonstrations, school and learning garden with value-added benefits for all participants.
Click here to link to the community market run by the Florida School of Holistic Living.
Click here to send an email to the local Community Garden effort sponsored by the School of Holistic Living.
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Why is it best to eat local, seasonal food?
Greatest impact: Energy conservation.
It takes a lot of gas and oil to transport food thousands of miles, and it takes a lot more to keep it cold for all that distance. So-called fresh food transported long distances can take ten or more days to reach your dinner table from the time it is harvested, and nutrients are lost in the process. Locally produced food would not need to be refrigerated for such long periods of time nor would it need to be shipped.
Another impact: The Third World Circle of Poison phenomenaA problem in importing food from Third World countries is the Circle of Poison. This occurs when US companies ship pesticides banned in the US to Third World countries, where it is applied to the food and then shipped back to US consumers.
Connect with the planet, the earth, the tenders of the soil.Through our purchases of local, seasonal foods, we see for ourselves how the land and water are treated by the farmers. The hidden costs of industrial agriculture, which the consumer usually doesn't see—overuse of water, chemicals, and loss of cropland, which ultimately threatens the food supply—would be right under our noses. The out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality would necessarily change.
Rule of Thumb: The fewer miles the food travels from the farm to your table, the better.Local Community Garden
As we were making plans to implement ideas for a Community Garden, a new organization in town was starting up a Community Garden as well. So, we pulled back and have been supporting them. They have some property on the Econolochatchee River, and run workshops from time to time. They have a web site which will give you more information as well.
This includes hands-on demonstrations, school and learning garden with value-added benefits for all participants.
Click here to link to the Simple Living Institute.
Click here to send an email to the Local Community Garden effort sponsored by the Simple Living Institute.
