This blog offers a wealth of information that I am compiling in order to inspire people to collectively create a vision for food growing everywhere for everyone in Fayetteville. I am in the process of creating a proposal which will be presented to the City of Fayetteville as part of its economic plan. Your feedback is essential.
I am also working on a conference where we can focus on food security in Fayetteville, asking the question: How can we work together to grow and distribute an abundance of food for everyone in Fayetteville? We share skills, resources, and come up with a strategic plan using Open Space Technology.
My new business, Victory Gardens Organic Growing Services, helps people to grow food. Janie Schuman has offered her home as a model for urban growing and sustainability. We will be having classes and gatherings there. Katy Deaton, of Ozark Backyards, another gardening service, is helping with that endeavor. Erin, who worked in Austin as coordinator for the Community Orchard and community gardens, is also consulting with us.
We want to support all the great endeavors which are going on, including the Farmer’s Markets and the Community Gardening Coalition.
I hope you enjoy this blog–please add your comments. They are very much appreciated.
Ben Fairfield said
I want to introduce myself…..My name is Ben Fairfield and I am one of the founders of The Urban Garden Project™. The Urban Garden Project™ is the initiative to encourage Americans to learn from history, become more self-reliant, save a significant amount of money, and eat healthier, all as a result of planting their own urban garden! The goal of The Urban Garden Project™ is to encourage and catalogue the creation of 100,000 urban gardens by 2020. We know that this is a sizeable goal, but we will accomplish it 1 garden at a time!
As a result of your successful blog and your obvious passion for gardening I was hoping that you would visit our website at http://www.urbangardenproject.wordpress.com to learn more about the project. It costs nothing to support the project; we simply need help getting the word out to the world so that we can begin to catalog existing or new urban gardens. It would also be great to be able to add you to our garden catalog and link to your site through our blogroll! The official kick off for the project is April 1st 2009 and we are busy creating videos, tutorials, product reviews and more to make visiting worth everyone’s time!
I am hoping that as a result of our shared passion for gardening you can help us in spreading the word about The Urban Garden Project™. Again, your support costs nothing. Our mission is pure and we hope that you can come along side us in this project to grow the gardening community and the number of urban gardens!
Thank you so much for your time and we are looking forward to you visiting our site and letting us add your garden to our growing catalog of gardens from across the world!
Have a great day!
Ben Fairfield