Fwd: New season to grow community and food

[Jessica Seymour]

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From: Common Ground of enc <commong...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:43 PM
Subject: New season to grow community and food
To: Kristey Coulter <kcou...@greenelamp.org>, David Jones <readyse...@gmail.com>, Ana Kinsey <aki...@kinstonhealth.org>, Shenile Ford <shenil...@ncsu.edu>, Bill Waller <bbill...@netzero.net>, Frances Rodriguez <fren...@gmail.com>, Whit Roberson <geral...@gmail.com>, Ellen Moore Clarke <ellamoo...@yahoo.com>, Tom Warren <twa...@stmaryskinston.com>, "Brian J. Jones" <jones...@yahoo.com>, Marilyn Patrick <mjpa...@embarqmail.com>, Regina and Matt Tervo <matt...@gmail.com>, Rhonda Ward <babyh...@yahoo.com>, "jamielee...@gmail.com" <jamielee...@gmail.com>, Jessica Seymour <jseym...@gmail.com>, Stephen West <swes...@gmail.com>, Julian Pridgen <julianp...@gmail.com>

Winter is slowly winding down, and it's time to start thinking of a new growing season. 

Over the winter, we established an orchard, and are currently raising funds to build a culinary herb garden. It will be a memorial to Ray Lee who was a founding board member of Common Ground ENC. Please consider making a donation of any amount to that end. You can visit our website (http://www.commongroundenc.com/) to donate on line, drop off your donation at HealtHabit store in Kinston or Goldsboro, or mail a check to PO Box 1121, Kinston, NC, 28503.

We are happy to announce three new members to our board: Shenile Ford of the Greene County Cooperative Extension office, Billy Waller of the Society of St. Andrews, and Jamie Thompson of Kinston who serves as pastor to two Greene County Methodist churches. We look forward to their insights and expertise. 

We are looking to strengthen our organization this year by growing membership and engaging our board more. We will be in touch soon to announce our first board meeting of the year. If you are no longer interested or able to serve as a board member, please let me know as soon as possible.

Remember, first Saturdays of each month are community days when the board and general public are invited to the garden & orchard to see our progress, get to know each other better, and tidy up the general appearance of our garden-park. We are expecting a large group of young people from the Kinston Police Department's Explorer Post on March 2 to continue work clearing the woods behind our garden. Hope you will join us for however long you can share with us!

Last night I spoke to the Kinston-Lenoir Parks and Recreation Commission about our "food park" project and asked them for assistance. See my attached power point presentation - I didn't display it only used it as a guide.

I went to fishing in the Neuse River for shad today - caught one and another (much larger, of course) got away. Which brings me to a local food event idea: a shad fish fry. The shad has a long, rich history here in eastern North Carolina (Grifton celebrates the Shad Festival every April I think it is). In terms of sustainability, I can't think of a fishery that is more local and renewable. Generally, it's not regarded by whites as an "eatin" species but is by blacks. I think it would be a good way to celebrate a bit of history, culture and local food while attracting people to and generating interest in our "food park" project in Kinston. What do you think?

blooms and blue skies,

lee

 

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Jessica T. Seymour RD, LDN
Registered Dietitian
President
Common Ground of Eastern NC, Inc.
Kinston, NC
252-268-1881