ABOUT CARING COMMUNITY GARDENS
Caring Community Gardens in Gardiner, Maine, invites caring people in the area to join an all-volunteer community effort to help their neighbors who may be having a hard time putting fresh vegetables on their table. The Caring Community Gardens project offers people a variety of opportunities to contribute to the effort in the form of equipment or cash donations. Hands-on opportunities include planting, maintenance and harvesting labor. If your interest is more along the lines of a family home garden, consider contributing surplus fruits and/or vegetables. Training opportunities will be offered; the project is guided by a volunteer Project Management team.
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Video: Caring Community Gardens –
a video essay of our first season (2009)
http://publicaccessmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/ccgslide01.wmv
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We’ve added an online Volunteer and NEWSLETTER sign-up page
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Stay in the loop about what’s happening at Caring Community Gardens. To join our companion discussion and information list send a blank email to – caringcommunitygardens-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING
A frequently updated list of links to Internet videos and articles relevant to our Caring Community Gardens Project.
You are cordially invited to submit home videos, stories or podcasts of your own garden projects for inclusion here. To find out how to do this, contact pft113@aol.com
Video: Springtime in Appalachia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR5SI3VsId0&feature=player_embedded#t=262
Video: “Our First Community Garden”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he86iDfQN-0 [VIDEO-Florida]
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Visit us on FACE BOOK
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Caring-Community-Gardens/292207666550
Saturday June 6, 2009 was planting day at Caring Community Gardens on Cottage Street in Gardiner, Maine. Among the forty or so area residents who gathered there to make it a true community celebration was Pamela Ford-Taylor, an active hands-on volunteer in this exciting community project. Here she shares her impresson of the process and invites your feedback.
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- Brian’s address at planting day event at CCGarden #1 on June 6th. Read on!
- Interested in getting involved in hands-on help for your neighbors in need? Go here!!!
- Complete project description. A click here will get you there!
- PHOTOS – Here’s a slide show of Brian’s photos to whet your appetite.
- PHOTOS – And another slide collection by Bob
If interested, see the Volunteer Registration form or you may call or email Peter Hagerman (582-7716); pierre222@gwi.net
ABOUT CHRYSALIS PLACE
Chrysalis Place established The Gardiner Area Food Center in November of 1983, as a result of the collaborative efforts of six Gardiner area churches. Its purpose was to address the hunger problem in the community. Since its inception, the agency has grown each year to include a total of six area cities and towns. Since 2007 there has been a dramatic increase in need reflected by the following statistics maintained by Chrysalis Place: 2403 families (5139 individuals) were served with enough food to provide 109,845 meals in 2007; 3461 families (6358 individuals) were served with enough food to provide 133,350. Chrysalis Place enjoys strong support from the community and municipalities. This is reflected by the consistent financial contributions from individuals, local and state government. Successful fundraising campaigns have resulted in the acquisition of land and the construction of a freestanding facility from which to carry out Chrysalis Place mission. For more information about Chrysalis Place call 207 582-7716
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March 22, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Good job!
July 10, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Bob, this was submitted to the KJ, Cap Weekly and Kennebec Current today by the rotary reporter
use it as you wish.
Special to the Kennebec Current July 9, 2009
The “hand of the Master Gardener directed me to this project” said Brian Trask, a former Franciscan seminarian as he described the Caring Community Garden project to the Gardiner Rotary Club this week. Trask of Chelsea and his partner in this effort, Peter Hagerman of Gardiner told of starting their first community garden this spring in collaboration with the local agricultural extension office. They have established a large vegetable garden and will deliver all of their produce to the Gardiner area Chrysalis Place food bank. They have already brought in lettuce and radishes, which grew even during the drenching rains.
They are planning to expand their operation next year to include a large plot in South Gardiner in addition to the one that currently exists at the Oaklands on the Gardiner farm. Volunteers do all of the work at the garden, which also has the backing of many groups in Gardiner.
They recently dedicated that first garden with Mayor MacLean, Legislative Rep. Hanley along with members of the Gardiner Ministerial Association, who blessed the plot. Hagerman told Gardiner Rotary that Caring Community Gardens and the food bank are not religious organizations, but the community food bank was formed more than 20 years ago by a group of Gardiner churches to assist with feeding needy people in the area and now are providing food for more than 3,600 families a month.
Hagerman and Trask also mentioned that they hope that people in the area would dedicate some portion of their home gardens to the project and anyone wishing to do that or wishes to volunteer may find information on their web site at http://caringcommunitygardens.wordpress.com./
The Gardiner Rotary Club recently celebrated its 85th Anniversary and is dedicated to the organization’s mission: “Service above Self”. People interested in joining Gardiner Rotary Club are invited to attend any of the meetings that occur every Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. at the Boys and Girls Club.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Rines 712-8089 BrianRines@gmail.com
April 20, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Bob-This is really great. Brian
April 13, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Looking good! As an interested bystander I’d like to hear some comments and opinons regarding what folks would like to see on this web site.