Fruit Workshops & Bike Tour on Earth Day next week!

[Nicole Craig]

Hi all,

There are some wonderful food-related activities coming up around Earth Day – hope you can join in on the fun during one of these events!

Best,

Nicole

 

Nicole Craig
Food and Gardens Division
Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, Inc.
608-246-4730 ext. 208
nic...@cacscw.org
www.cacscw.org/gardens

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From: Madison Fruits & Nuts [mailto:madisonfru...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 2:42 PM
To: Janet Parker
Subject: Fruit Workshops & Bike Tour on Earth Day next week!

 

Dear Fruit and Nut enthusiasts --

Please come celebrate Earth Day and learn together at UW-Madison next Thursday, April 22!  Madison Fruits and Nuts volunteers have a wonderful day planned with a focus on fruit, public produce and urban agriculture. 

 

All the details are below and in the attached flyer.  Earth Day will kick off with a morning presentation on urban fruit for city staff and the mayor.  Then we'll take a bike tour of UW-Madison campus to see four campus gardens that feature vegetables and fruit.  There will be an array of great hands-on workshops in the afternoon, an evening panel discussion with local urban agriculture stars, and then a tour Friday of farms in and around Madison.  Our special out-of-town guest is Ashley Atkinson, who leads the Greening of Detroit, a group that has planted thousands of fruit trees in their city.  We're bringing Ashley to take part in an Earth Day conference at the Nelson Institute at UW-Madison, and she's staying for these community workshops on Earth Day.

 

Thanks to all who have helped plan, and especially to FH King Students of Sustainable Agriculture, Eagle Heights Garden, and Shelly Strom who made the beautiful publicity poster.  Please print and share the poster to help us spread the word!

 

Happy Spring and hope we see you next Thursday,

Janet Parker for Madison Fruits and Nuts

2010 URBAN AG TOUR @ UW-Madison

 

Campus Bike Tour of Sustainable Ag

Thursday, April 22, Noon – 5 p.m.

 

12:00 p.m.  -- Bring your bike and meet at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street                           

Edible Courtyard with F.H. King Staff

 

1:00 p.m. -- Allen Centennial Gardens, Babcock Drive

Victory Garden and square foot gardening with Ed Lyon, Garden Director

 

2:00 – 5:00 p.m. -- Eagle Heights Community Gardens and F.H. King Student Farm, Lake Mendota Drive

Site Tour and Workshops:

Urban fruit trees with Ashley Atkinson, The Greening of Detroit

Composting with Robert Pierce, organic farmer and South Madison Farmers' Market Manager

Small Fruits with Melinda Yerka, Agronomy graduate student

Pruning young fruit trees with Jim Winkle, Quann Community gardener

Permaculture Guilds with Erin Schneider, Hilltop Community Farm

 

5:00 p.m. -- Happy Hour with Slow Food!

 

Ashley Atkinson Lecture

Public Produce, Urban Fruit and the Greening of Detroit

Thursday, April 22, 9:30 a.m.

Overture Center, Wisconsin Studio Room

Public presentation for City of Madison Staff The Natural Step group and you!

 

 

Urban Ag and Food Sovereignty Panel

Thursday, April 22, 7.00 p.m. Science Hall, Room 180

Join the conversation! Panelists include:

Ashley Atkinson of Greening of Detroit, John Kinsman of Family Farm Defenders, Michael Goldsby of Drumlin CSA Producers Cooperative,

Sam Dennis of UW-Madison Landscape Architecture Dept., and others

 

 

Carpool Tour of Local Sustainable Ag

Friday, April 23, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

8:00 a.m.           Meet at Just Coffee, 1129 E. Wilson Street, Madison

9:00 a.m.           Cedar Grove Cheese, E5904 Mill Rd. near Plain,

                        Living Machine waste water treatment system

10:30 a.m.         John Kinsman’s organic dairy grazing & forestry operation,

                        2940 Hwy K. near Lime Ridge

12:00 p.m.         Lunch at Deli Bean, 206 E. Main Street, Reedsburg

   1:30 p.m.        Vernon Hirschberger’s Grazin’ Acres Amish farm,

                        S6145 Hwy 23 near Loganville

3:30 p.m.           Troy Community Farm & Gardens, 500 Troy Drive, Madison

5:00 p.m.           Carpool returns to Just Coffee

 

Sponsored by: Madison Infoshop, Family Farm Defenders, Madison Fruits & Nuts, The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Slow Food UW, among others...

 

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Madison Fruits & Nuts