Canvassing for Eagle Park Community Garden

Saturday

February 25th 2012

Canvassing Eagle Park

for Community Garden

We had a wonderful turnout for our first effort toward the construction of this community garden to be located at

265 Admiral Street in Providence. 

Our good friend, Marcellus Sharpe has done most of the hard work at learning how this will work.  We were glad to add some "legwork" to his efforts by distributing flyers to invite the community to participate.  After all, the participation of friends and neighbors in the area will be essential to its success! 

It is exciting to see how the Law of Attraction works to connect people who want to achieve great things.  Our friend Caffi came from Boston, by BUS to be a part of this project.  She is so passionate about farming that she actually is studying it out in Boston and working with other communities and small groups to offer education on how to farm.  We are fortunate to have drawn a person of her skills and abilities to us as we will need such an advisor over the important months to come.

In addition to Caffi, Marcellus has shown the vision and passion to create this and has the business knowledge to consider each detail carefully.  Sam has been instrumental in organizing the CBA Group to be the people who go out into the community and really get things rolling.  Bob is awesome!  He brought his 3 sons, our friend Andrew, and basically arrived with a full minivan of volunteers! 

My daughter Annika and I were glad to be with this wonderful group, and Alberta brought her sister Danielle along with her daughters Lindsey and Skyler.  I love that we are involving our family (especially our little kids) because (to me anyway), community means ALL OF US.  I am just so excited personally about this!

Here are some photos from the event:

The Photo above is the LOT where the garden will be created!



Eagle Park Project

Hi Blog-Readers!

It is a great time to be a part of the CBA group as we are about to launch a project that will keep us busy over the next few months and then we have plans for some hiking and meditation and educational meetups to come in summer.

With such a variety of members, so much can happen and that is what is special about this group of people!

At our recent MeetUp, we met a new friend named Marcellus who inspired us to help create a community garden in Providence' Eagle Park Section.

We are very excited and passionate about this project because there is a correlation between gardening and good health.  Part of that link has to do with the process of developing the garden and the physical labor.  The other part however, is related to the selection and growing of foods for the sustainability of the community food supply. 

Just think of the ramifications of people never going hungry?  Just think of that as a possibility and your spirit will elevate.  I hope to see you all there February 25th!

What does Sustainability have to do with us in the CBA Group?

That was a trick question...SUSTAINABILITY has to do with everyone.

In our world in 2012, it will be more important then ever to understand this concept of sustaining.  Some readers will have heard this before and for others this may be something new to consider.  But I will give you some basic information here that can be the start for you if you are new to this.

What is sustainability?

"Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.
Sustainability is important to making sure that we have and will continue to have, the water, materials, and resources to protect human health and our environment." epa.gov

Environmental needs and the changes in our planet's resources have been on the horizon for more then two decades.  It may be that this is the very time when that knowledge must be called to action!  It is time to put into useful action that which we know as knowledge.

One way to do this is to change the "mindset" that we have lived under for our entire lives where it pertains to health, wellness and food.  The human body (according to Eastern beliefs) can be completely healed by food.  Amazing, isn't it?  Food is supposed to be both nourishing and medicinal.  It is frightening to think about how much sickness comes through the food chain. 

Eating "organic", may seem to some people like a fad or new-age lifestyle choice when in fact it may come to be necessary for us to all know how to grow our own vegetables, herbs...raise our own livestock and cultivate our own fresh water source.

In preparation for our Saturday meeting (February 11th), I would like to toss these ideas around and see what people think.  Please join us on the Discussion Board of our Meetup Page to go into greater detail on this.


~namaste~

AngelMarie