<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><br>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:32:14 -0400<br>From: "Liz Falk" <<a href="mailto:erf59@cornell.edu">erf59@cornell.edu</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:fingerlakespermaculture@lists.ibiblio.org">fingerlakespermaculture@lists.ibiblio.org</a>><br>Subject: Work party TODAY at Southside Community Center<br>Message-ID: <DCA0D4E48F4C4709A44E0DCC7F1E841A@200604NPEs><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br><br>Hey folks,<br><br>Gardens 4 Humanity will be getting together at 4:30 pm TODAY,<br>Tuesday, Aug 24 at Southside Community Center (SSCC) 305 S. Plain St.<br>to begin preparing the gardens there and at the St. James AME Zion<br>Church just down the block for the fall and for the upcoming<br>afterschool programs at SSCC. Extra tools such as wheelbarrels would<br>be helpful if anyone could bring one. Gloves will be provided.<br><br>This is an opportunity for those looking to be involved in the<br>community to engage in an ongoing project and to meet some of those<br>who have been instumental in garden activism and advocacy in Ithaca<br>over the last few years. The gardens at SSCC were started through a<br>joint effort between Elan Shapiro of Sustainable Tompkins, CCE and Dan<br>Flerladge of LACS in 2008. Beginning in spring 2009, Gardens 4<br>Humanity began to play a role at the center through multiple avenues.<br>An initial community work party was held to create new garden beds and<br>replant perennials to beatify SSCC entrance way. G4H has been working<br>with the Southside Afterschool and Summer Camp Programs to provide<br>gardening education, healthy snacks and fun exercise. The 5 sections<br>of gardens serve both programs and feature herbs, veggies, fruits and<br>a native butterfly garden.<br><br>Don't forget about our Community & School Garden Training Series<br><a href="http://www.ccetompkins.org/garden/trainingseries">www.ccetompkins.org/garden/trainingseries</a><br><br>AND, make sure you sign up for the Gardens 4 Humanity Google group to stay<br>up to date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/g4h_volunteers">http://groups.google.com/group/g4h_volunteers</a><br><br>Thanks and see you there,<br>Josh Dolan & Liz Falk<br>G4H/ CCE Community Food Gardening Educator<br><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Gardens 4 Humanity is a community-driven organization that promotes<br>economic, personal, and neighborhood empowerment through urban gardening and<br>local farm connections. <br><a href="http://www.ccetompkins.org/community/whole-communities-project/gardens-4-humanity">www.ccetompkins.org/community/whole-communities-project/gardens-4-humanity</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>