community garden update and

[Megan Hayes-Bell]

President B Akins, Deena Hayes, and Gee Gee Greene met with the city of Greensboro and North Carolina cooperative extension representatives on April 20th. The OASNA community garden is going to be individual/family owned raised beds, pesticides have been sprayed and the area has been flagged. Timber and water hydrates will be installed by may 14th We will have 15, 5 x 16 plots available. If have you not filled out the community guidelines and rules agreement, please fill out the attached document and bring it with you to the next neighborhood association meeting May 14th at 7pm located at the Nettie Coad Apartments community room: 503 Martin Luther King Jr Drive, parking and entrance is on Bragg Street! Hope to see you all there!

We have also tentatively planned the Community Garden Kickoff Cookout for May 19th around 3pm at the 504 Martin Luther King Jr Drive at the former Ambassador Animal Hospital (located in the back).

There will be snacks and refreshments; feel free to bring food and games, tours of the plots, and also on this day you will be able to get started on your plot. Please let us know if this date works for most of you and if you will be in attendance so that we can gauge how much food we will need for the event! Yay for summer!!! Get excited about feeding our community!

Megan Hayes-Bell

Also anyone interested in learning more about Cuba and ending the travel ban/economic blockade against Cuba please contact me at me...@racialequityinstitute.org. We will be hosting a second info session also on May 14th at 7pm (ironically, bad planning) at the Beloved Community Center just around the corner. So if you are interested maybe we can schedule a meeting after the OASNA meeting.