Growing a Garden City event on 3/17

[patricia]

Hello,
While it's still cold out there today we can begin to see spring on
the horizon and look forward to getting back out in our gardens!
My neighborhood BFC group has invited Jeremy Smith to come give a
reading from his newly published book on community gardens on March
17th, please join us for this free community event. We're planning a
reception after the reading too so we'll have a chance to catch up -
hope to see you there!
Patricia


Brooklyn Food Coalition Hosts Reading With Jeremy Smith,
Author of Growing a Garden City

On March 17 the Greenpoint Chapter of the Brooklyn Food Coalition will
host a reading
and discussion with Jeremy Smith, author of newly-published book
Growing a Garden City:
How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, A
Homeless Shelter Chef,
Single Mothers, and More are Transforming Themselves and Their
Neighborhoods Through
the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community -- and How You
Can, Too (2010, Skyhorse
Publishing).

When: March 17, 7-9 PM
Where: Messiah Church, 129 Russell Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint BFC organizer Rachel Clift says, “This is an opportunity
for Brooklyn residents
from all neighborhoods to learn how they can work together to improve
their local food systems
through organizing, volunteering, gardening, and education. We love
how Jeremy’s book shares
stories and ideas on how to create smaller-scale neighborhood
partnerships that connect you
with your community, and keep you engaged”
The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots organization composed of
neighborhood-based
and resource-based chapters working together in Brooklyn on projects
that promote food justice
and sustainable food. The Greenpoint chapter has developed an informal
partnership with
Messiah Church, where the event will be held.
In Growing a Garden City, Jeremy N. Smith tells the remarkable, true
story of a city learning
to feed itself. With striking color photographs and compelling
personal narratives, Smith
demonstrates how diverse residents of one city embraced the local food
movement by
establishing city gardens, food kitchens, co-op subscriptions, college
internships, agriculturebased
education, and farm-work therapy programs to transform a population as
at risk as any
in America into one that now stands as a model forncommunity-supported
agriculture. The
surprising, inspiring results prove that it’s possible to eat well
locally even if you don’t live on a
rural homestead or in an elite urban area, and that volunteer-powered
farms and gardens, even
in a harsh climate, can provide satisfying food to feed a diverse
population.
“Bright, vibrant, and buoyantly accessible, this effervescent
celebration of the local food
movement thrums with regional, national and international
implications.” – Booklist, starred
review
For more information please see BrooklynFoodCoalition.org and
GrowingAGardenCity.org
Adriana Velez
Communications, Brooklyn Food Coalition
in...@brooklynfoodcoalition.org
347.329.5093