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“Urban gardening as part of the Kearsley Park Block Redevelopment Project LLC, in Flint, Michigan: Overgrowing poverty and crime one lot at a time.”

Category Archives: Winter Time Progression 2011

March 22, 2011 Clean-up and Cookout successful…but still need to save red barn from demo!

Peace Mob Garden red barn set for demo. We're asking Mayor Walling to consider saving it from that fate
Peace Mob Garden red barn set for demo. We’re asking Mayor Walling to consider saving it from that fate

Thank you everyone that came out and helped today! We will have a lot more events coming up in the spring, and it would be great to see all your faces at them! We succeeded in moving everything out of the garden barn and into a temporary storage location. We are still doing everything we can to save this barn! We need your support! Please call, email, or go visit the mayor and let him know how important this barn is to Peace Mob. We NEED this barn (and the driveway that goes to it), not only to store our garden tools in, but it also acts as our rain catchment system saving us thousands of dollars every year on a water bill.

Go here for more pictures of today’s events!

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March 9, 2011 Nursery/Greenhouse

                                         

We need to build some shelves and stands for the baby sprouts to germinate in the “nursery”(front room of whitehouse) and need a couple recycled windows replaced very soon to eliminate the cold drafts and capture the suns heat. This will be good project to get things started for the year and will be happening this week. If you are interested in building/constructing please contact Derek Williams our lead building coordinator. Please leave any suggestions for projects or ideas pertaining to a nursery or germination station in the comment section of this blog for others to view.

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March 4, 2011 Field Trips 2011

Peace Mob Transt Authority

PMTA 1- Thanks for all of the support the past 15 months

We love to load up PMTA1 and stroll around to neighboring gardens, parks, beaches and social events! Keep your eyes out for the Peace Bus and come chat. If you have something somewhere you think we would be interested in seeing or attending please let us know so we can fill our field trip calendar with fun for this summer with you! Keep checking the comments for field trip updates and the “tours and pr” category to learn more about getting on board the PMTA1 for a private tour of the city.

March 2, 2011 3 Quick and Free things you can do Right Now to help the Garden

Folks are always asking what they can do to help. Well, this time of year we need help with the hype! Getting the word out and getting people excited for some back breaking labor under the sun and becoming educated about urban gardening and active in the community. Here are some things to do that are simple, quick and the best part about it is, it doesn’t even require that you get up yet!

1. Become a wordpress.com user if you’re not already. This allows you to comment directly on our garden blog posts and join our web community in sharing information and manifesting dreams with action.
2. Subscribe to our blog. Your e-mail address adds up in our mailing lists on our site, allowing yourself more opportunities to get involved in events and fundraisers for buying tools, seeds, plants, and for funding building, educational projects and tours.

3. Tell your friends about us. Thepeacemob.com Word of mouth is always the best way to help the spread the word. Suggest our page to your friends and share our blog post links or pictures and albums on your profile page by clicking the share link. Tell your church groups, schools, co workers and family about us and get active in your community with the Peace Mob Gardens.

By working together and doubling or tripling the number of people involved and the number of people served from last year, we can make this another summer of reaching for the highest ring of excellence and going past our own expectations once again.

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March 2, 2011 Crafting/Merchandise accumulation

one of many murals at the Garden, Detail

one of many murals at the Garden, Detail

During the cold months many various projects have had an opportunity to be born. Crafting workshops are being held almost daily in hopes of using otherwise wasted time to produce necklaces, bracelets, handbags, etc… to be sold as fundraising merchandise during the growing season. Please include yourself and any skills/supplies you may want to share in this motivating and social project. By purchasing small amounts of extra materials over time we will collectively gain almost all of the resources we need for the entire season without a large immediate overhead so next time you’re out, PLEASE!!! think about us and grab one extra for the Garden!

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March 1, 2011 Winter Projects

Making Signs

Making Signs

Although there isn’t much sun or soil to grow plants outdoors during the winter, there are definately ideas and projects growing and being harvested in the minds of many people involved in this project as well as in the dreams of the people yet to discover this amazing diamond in the rough. Arts and business planning have been very prevalent throughout the last few months and I believe that this community is about to see a new and brilliant face to the Peace Mob Gardens. Please post any new ideas, concepts, or projects that you have been thinking about or doing this winter or plan to do this spring/summer. Thanks for your continued interest in the Peace Mob Garden. Subscribe to the blog for updates!

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