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National Greenhouse Co. is proud to announce that it will be donating one Cultivator Premier Greenhouse Kit to a deserving community garden for its 2011 Community Garden Greenhouse Give-A-Way Contest. All communities across the United States are encouraged to enter the contest. Northglenn, Colorado (Vocus/PRWEB) January 03, 2011 National Greenhouse Co. is proud to announce that it will be donating one Cultivator Premier Greenhouse Kit to a deserving community garden for its 2011...
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Global technology innovator LG Electronics announced today support for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City and Grow to Learn NYC, the City's school gardening initiative. LG's support will help create new school gardens and green spaces through improved online information sharing and communication with the teachers, parents, and leaders who play a crucial role in ensuring that more young New Yorkers have access to a garden. "The Mayor's Fund is...
Transforming vacant urban lots into farms and community gardens could provide Detroit residents with a majority of their fruits and vegetables.As city officials ponder proposals for urban farms, a Michigan State University study indicates that a combination of urban farms, community gardens, storage facilities and hoop houses "“ greenhouses used to extend the growing season "“ could supply local residents with more than 75 percent of their vegetables and more than 40 percent of their...
One common mitigation approach is to build a raised bed and fill it with freshly composted, low-lead soil from elsewhere, right? Maybe not, according to researchers studying the mysterious case of the lead contamination found within raised beds in community gardens in the Boston communities of Roxbury and Dorchester."Raised beds are surrounded by a sea of contaminated soil," said Daniel Brabander of Wellesley College. Brabander, his students and colleagues have been studying the...
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Orange County Great Park Board approved a plan to negotiate a partnership with The Scotts Company LLC to benefit educational and garden programming at the Park. The sponsorship agreement will provide for payments and product support totaling $150,000 per year for the Great Park Farm and Food Lab and Community Garden Project over the next five years, for a total value of $750,000. The Board voted unanimously October 21 to allow Corporation...
CHICAGO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Partnering in an innovative health initiative, the City Produce Project and the participating churches of the Actions Connected to Spirituality Forming Alliances in Transforming Health (A.C.T.S. of F.A.I.T.H.) are calling for more public and private partnerships to create programming that directly addresses obesity and its associated co-morbidities in underserved communities. The announcement comes in September, which is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month....
PHILADELPHIA, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Pennsylvania Department of Aging today announced a nutrition services grant to help members of the Nationalities Service Center Senior Center tend their community garden in North Philadelphia. The food grown there is used in preparing meals for center members. "This innovative project is helping to provide fresh and nutritious food for center members and creates camaraderie by providing an area for older adults to tend to their gardens...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jamba Juice and the National Gardening Association (NGA) today announced a fun, easy way for schools and communities to support nutrition education through gardening and the planting of fruit trees. The multi-faceted partnership is designed to provide year-round funding for gardens, create school fruit tree planting grants, support nutrition education and encourage community service. The announcement was made at an event in Sacramento,...
WARMINSTER, Pa., April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- W. Atlee Burpee & Co. continues its support of younger and novice gardeners and the increased interest in children's gardening education with the release of the new Burpee Home Gardens® I Can Grow Guide, offering ideas for teachers, youth group leaders and volunteers on how to cultivate a successful youth garden program. This resource is in addition to the Burpee Home Gardens Garden Fresh gardening guide that covers virtually every aspect of...
SEATTLE, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cliff Sharples, founder of Shop.org and Garden.com today announced a new site, DigtheDirt.com, a social networking site optimized for people who love gardening. Just in time for Spring, the site includes an easy-to-use plant database with thousands of the most popular plants for home gardens, plus the ability to filter and search for plants based on over 100 attributes. Home gardeners can also easily find suppliers for the plants they wish to purchase. To...
