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Imagine the feeling of abundance everywhere you go. Walking through your neighborhood or down city streets, the land has a feeling of being cared for and it's obvious – each area is uniquely beautiful and provides food, medicine, fuel and so many other yields year round. People are actually interacting – sharing resources and stories about daily life – taking care of each other. Our community has real wealth and power and we are all creating it in our own special way.

The Grow Food Party Crew is a collective of people manifesting this vision. We are literally a crew of party people traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood transforming the land through celebration – music, food, dance, play, laughter and hard work.

In the course of a single day we create organic veggie gardens, food forests, water catchment systems, and earthen or natural structures. At night we continue to party down hard - on site or all around town. After all our fun is had, a community resource is created forever!

We need gardeners, artists, musicians, chefs, healers, undercover clowns, kids, elders, EVERYONE, and the places we're going to transform. This is your community, your town, your vision, your party crew.

To join us in creating abundance:

Email growfoodpartycrew(at)gmail.com to get on our mailing list. Also, send us your brilliant ideas of how we can make this even more exciting and let us know what where you want to go with this!

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Spread the word. Get your friends and family stoked. Then have us come over and trick out your yard!

.. Update: Because we didn't outright say it before - the GFPC parties are totally free. And if you know nothing about gardening, that's perfect. All you need is the desire to learn. We will be teachin' it through doin' it! ..

Hey everyone, we are are starting to gather up materials for the upcoming party. Right now we're looking for:

Scrap wood for planter boxes, organic compost/potting mix, $ for plants, pots, big containers, donations of veggies and fruit trees, anything else?

We could also use connections to get plants at wholesale.

We're also looking for bands to play the event or any other sort of live act, (dj's?). If you're stoked on anything in particular - video/photography, cooking up a gourmet meal (we'll provide the ingredients). Let's get creative!

Thanks to everyone who's been putting themselves out there and just giving us amazing ideas and leads so far. Especially those of you who are just sayin' - put me to work! This whole thing is as ripe as a local kiwi! Love ya!

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Suburbanites Turn Green Yards Into Cash With Minifarms!
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA../Springtime/story?id=4743374..&page=1

(Click the link to watch the video - it is so worth it!)

By JOHN BERMAN, JESSICA HOFFMAN and STEVE PETYERAK
April 29, 2008

RSS Rising food prices have yielded a throwback to a more agrarianlike lifestyle in suburbs throughout the nation.

As the price of food rises, homeowners turn their yards into minifarms. People like Norfolk, Va., resident Sue VanHecke are turning their green gardens into green cash by turning their homes into profitable farms.

During the summer VanHecke made $100 per week from her minifarm.

"We'd like to double that [this summer]," said VanHecke, who plants, tills and waters her garden no more than 10 hours a week.

It's only the beginning of the growing season, but VanHecke already has tomatoes, beets, chard, radishes and lettuce in every spare nook and cranny of her yard, which she sells to a local restaurant...