Connecting with youth, volunteers, and potential staff interested in urban garden projects.
Promoting healthy and just eating habits, urban gardening, sustainable agriculture, leadership skills, healthy communication and productive youth and adult partnerships.
About me:
Lots to Gardens is growing good food to create change. We use sustainable urban agriculture to create access to fresh food, and to nurture healthy youth and a healthy community. Since 1999, we have built fifteen gardens and greenspaces in four diverse neighborhoods in Lewiston, Maine. We are sponsored by St. Mary's Health System.
Our Summer Youth Gardeners Program employs youth (aged 14-20). The program provides youth with job training workshops as well as encourages youth to become leaders in their own community, teaches youth about gardening and agriculture skills, teaches youth about hunger in their community and how to stop it, encourages youth to work in teams and to contribute to group efforts, and gives youth the tools they need to make healthier life choices.
What hope do we offer the nuclear race? And what do we do with the nuclear waste? We can’t bury it down, it can’t swim in the sea, So what do we do with this grim legacy? Well I’ll tell you the truth, and I’ll make it quite plain, We can’t shoot it in space, or let it wash down the drain.
So we leave it behind for the kids yet to come, That bittersweet taste of the nuclear bomb.
Well the kids of tomorrow have no words to say For the world we leave and the price they will pay.
Caretakers are we and for what do we stand? For the love of the life on this sacred land.
What hope for the child in this world of ill care Lies deep with the meek on a wing and a prayer, That these Gods will see reason for the land, sea, and air, And the hope in the future for the life that lives there.
Caretakers are we, and for what do we stand? For the love of the life on this sacred land.
What reason for money when you can’t breathe the air? And the oceans and lakes they lay barren and bare, And the streams and the rivers run sewerage and poison With no drink to spair, Caretakers are we, and for what do we stand? For the love of the life on this sacred land.
The ice caps are melting thers holes in the sky, we poison the earth for the sake of a lie, its time for the one and the all standing by to take hold of the reigns and put an end to this crime for we are the meek and now is our time,,,,caretakers are we and for what do we stand,, for the love of all life on this sacred land www. goodisplanetearth.
HR 875 is a bill in committee and soon to hit the floor. If it passes, then organic farming and the backyard gardens will be criminalized. If this passes, the government can confiscate your land just because you are growing your own food! Please read this article, read the bill and take action!
I wanted to invite all Lots to Gardens people to a special free talk in Brunswick next weekend on culinary herb gardening. The details are below. Hope to see you!
Brunswick Park and Garden is hosting a garden talk by Betsey-Ann Golon on herb gardening at one pm on Sunday, February 15, at the Morrell Meeting Room of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick . Betsey-Ann Golon, co -owner of Common Folk Farm Organic Herbs, has created products for L.L. Bean, botanic gardens, and museums throughout the U.S. For almost 20 years Betsey has taught garden classes for the Shaker Herb Department in New Gloucester, Maine where she is the garden manager and directs their intern garden program. She also serves as herbalist for George Washington's Mt. Vernon Estate and Gardens in Virginia . Betsey's love of people, history, and gardening is infectious, as is her sense of humor! Her program, Herb Garden 101, is for everyone who loves herbs. She will offer handouts on a simple "potted" garden to a garden of "Simple Abundance" that integrates herbs, fruits and vegetables. Think "Spring" and join us for a program filled with fragrance and fun. Free and open to the public. FMI: 833-5125 Products from the Shaker and Common Folk Farms will be available for purchase.
Thank you for joining our team on this Healing Journey. In gratitude, we send you white light. Mother's Milk Organics is a Maine-made, family-owned business operating with love since 2004. We sell pure, Organic Essential Oils and other Made in Maine products. We are committed to meeting the healing needs of mothers, expecting mothers, families of mothers, anyone who might know a mother, or simply anyone who has a mother. :-) Please stop in at our website www. mothersmilkorganics. com.
When we invoke the phrase TAKING CARE OF YOUR PRECIOUS SELF, we do more than just make a statement: we remind you in these busy days to remember to take the time to take care of your body. Please visit our web page at www. mothersmilkorganics. com.
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