San Francisco Urban Farms and Gardens celebrate INTERDEPENDENCE DAY on 12/12/12

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Dec 12, 2012, 2:13:36 AM12/12/12
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San Francisco Urban Farms and Gardens celebrate INTERDEPENDENCE DAY on 12/12/12

On December 12, 2012 (12/12/12) community farms and urban gardens all over San Francisco are hosting events to celebrate the city’s growing urban agriculture movement.  The city-wide celebration is a follow up to 350.org’s 10/10/10 Global Day of Climate Action, when the local urban agriculture movement helped start 350 “kitchen gardens” in San Francisco backyards.  Two years, two months, and two days later, urban farmers are celebrating how far the movement has come since then and how much more they still want to achieve.  

“San Francisco is the perfect place for Interdependence Day celebrations to begin,” said Vanessa Green, an event organizer.  “We are into what we eat and where it comes from, and even though we have so little space or time to grow food, we’re showing that’s no longer a problem.”  While this celebration originated in San Francisco, organizers are thrilled to see people joining in all over the world.  “People in 15 countries have taken an online pledge to join us by holding their own garden action on 12/12/12.” said Ms. Green.

Interdependence Day is being coordinated by 49 Farms, an organization whose mission is to help create an urban farm in each of the 49 square miles of the city.  The goal for 12/12/12 is to have garden actions happening in each of these square miles.  Several new community farms have opened since 10/10/10; the most recent addition is The Bee Farm in the Visitation Valley neighborhood.  Urban Farms all over the city, including Hayes Valley Farm, 18th and Rhode Island Garden, Please Touch Community Garden, the Free Farm, and Garden for the Environment are each hosting 12/12/12 events, with individual gardeners and the San Francisco Garden Party rounding out the miles that don’t yet have their own community space.  In the spirit of interdependence, Hayes Valley Farm and Recology are hosting resource shares, giving away free mulch, seeds, compost, salvaged garden lumber, urbanite, plants and more to help existing gardens and start new ones.   

Listing of public events at community farms at 49farms.org >>

Hope to see you at an Urban Farm around your town!

-Jay



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