PRESS RELEASE: KBBF & Occupy Sonoma County Teach-in: Urban Farming & Backyard Sustainability 3/26
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KBBF Presents An Occupy Sonoma County Teach-in:
Urban Farming & Backyard Sustainability
Monday, March 26, 7-9 PM
Free with Donations Welcome
Carpenters' Union Hall, 1706 Corby Ave, Santa Rosa 95407
Contact: Peter Ochs
707-877-6650
OSCE...@OccupySonomaCounty.org
(Please do not publish this name or email address.)
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This press release is also available in Spanish.
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Urban Farming & Backyard Sustainability Teach-In, Mon. March 26 at 7 PM, 1706 Corby Ave., Santa Rosa
Healthy, organic food choices may cost more in the short term. Unhealthy foods cost even more in the long term with health costs and shorter lives. Some parts of town have few options when it comes to buying healthy food. When people cross town to go to healthier alternatives they often find the prices prohibitively high. There is an answer to this dilemma.
On March 26, KBBF-FM will present an Occupy Sonoma County teach-in on Urban Farming and Backyard Sustainability. This free teach-in will be held at the Carpenters’ Union Hall, 1706 Corby Ave. in Santa Rosa. It will run from 7-9 PM and feature the expertise of Jonathan Bravo of LandPaths. He’ll show people how to grow organic foods in their backyards, how to build healthy soil that is petrochemical free, year-round gardening and more. Everyone is welcome.
Bayer Farms, located in the Roseland neighborhood at 1550 West Ave. in Santa Rosa, is one of two gardens coordinated by LandPaths. These two acres, part of the larger Bayer Neighborhood Park and Gardens, has a small instructional garden and many family garden plots. “Bayer Farms proudly serves 64 Roseland Families and surrounding neighborhoods,” says Jonathan Bravo of LandPaths. They have a bookmobile to share community education, as well as gardening space, fruit trees, penned areas for chickens and other fowl, on-going compost experimentation and a street-side table where they give away food to the neighborhood. That's the key to their success. Bayer Farms is a neighborhood farm. The focus is on healthy foods including medicinal herbs. “The day I was there they had a display with blood pressure information and examples of the portions of salt found in various popular foods. The place hummed with positive energy and exciting potential,” says Rebel Fagin of Occupy Sonoma County.
Come to the Carpenters' Union Hall on March 26 at 7 PM to learn about Urban Farming and Backyard Sustainability. There will be a Pay-What-You-Can Plant Sale and Free Seed Exchange, so bring your extra seeds to share. For more information about this event go to OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650. You can learn more at LandPaths.org and KBBF.org.
###Contact: Peter Ochs at 707-877-6650 orOSCEvent@OccupySonomaCounty.org to arrange an interview. (Please do not publish this name or email address.)
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Occupy Sonoma County embraces the egalitarian, deep democracy principles of the Occupy Movement with a regional strategy for effectively organizing countywide social justice campaigns that are globally relevant.