Nashville School Garden Grant! We need your vote by this weekend!
Sarah Bellos
Many of you may know that I am living in Nashville and run an organic clothing business with my sister, ASK Apparel and Artisan Natural Dyeworks , an ecofriendly textile dye service. But, I also helped start and continue to help run an amazing urban farm, Nashville Urban Harvest. Our non-profit has been helping start a school garden at Glencliff High School in South Nashville.
We really need your 3 votes this weekend in order to win a grant of $5000!
http://projectfund.brighterplanet.com/projects/soilrejuvenation
You can vote 3 times in a row (just hit the back button once you are logged in) and voting ends August 15th! Please spread the word to your family and friends. :) We are within 60 votes of the lead, so with all of your help we will get to the top! Please email, tweet, facebook, etc about it to share as well, but most importantly VOTE!
thanks so much for your support and hope to give you a more robust update soon!
best, sarah bellos
Here are more details:
Over the past year, Nashville Urban Harvest and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have been working closely with Glencliff High School and various community partners to build a school garden designed to improve health and well-being and enhance educational opportunities among GHS and the surrounding community. This school garden has the potential to make an incredible impact on the health and wellness of Glencliff High School and its surrounding community by promoting sustainable agriculture, improving education through hands-on experiences, impacting health and wellness, and more! For more information on this project, see http://vanderbiltchildrens.org/interior.php?mid=7760.
We have made a lot of progress including creating a Glencliff Garden Advisory Committee to provide oversight and guidance to the project, a weekly Garden Club for students to get hands-on experience with garden tasks such as building compost bins, mixing soil, building soil blocks, planting seedlings, cutting sod, etc., secured various donations and volunteers, hired a Farm Manager to help maintain the garden and work with teachers to link the garden to Garden Club, Ecology classes, etc., cultivated ¼ land by planting items various herbs, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, peppers, etc., and assisted 3 Glencliff High School students in writing grants to support the Glencliff Garden. However, to continue the successes of this project, WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!
I'm happy to say that we have just been chosen as one of the
competitors in the Project Fund Grant competition but we need
your help in winning this $5,000 grant! Please take the time today to
vote on our project. It explains more about the project in our proposal.
Please click on this link to sign up for the website and
vote today for Glencliff High School Soil Rejuvenation. You can
vote a total of three times in the next 14 days. The
objective of the Project Fund Grant is to increase the dialogue about climate
change. By teaching the students to be self-sufficient in the growing and
procurement of food we will allow them to be less dependent on fossil fuels
because we will not be using petroleum based fertilizers and relying on
heavy fuel dependent food distribution channels.
We really need your votes (you can vote 3 times in a row!) as
well as your support in getting the word out about this project! Please pass the link
on to your friends. We really appreciate
your comments and suggestions on the proposal as well.
Link to vote: http://projectfund.brighterplanet.com/projects/soilrejuvenation
Project name: Glencliff High School Soil Rejuvenation Project
Voting ends: August 15
Times you can vote: 3