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Do you have an action group focused on the urban arts?
Is your group involved in creative pursuits relevant to urban spaces?
Do you have, as part of your mission, improving the urban environment?
If
you answered yes to these three questions, please consider making full use of the services provided by gardeners'guild in communicating with your group and utilizing the member network. Email your details for other urban gardeners to see. GG admin posts it!
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Dragon Farm and South Valley Academy
Currently, the SVA website is down, but following are a few details: Their program is created to ask students
“How do you live a sustainable lifestyle, economically, culturally, environmentally and in community?"
This Community Service Learning Program is nationally recognized, and both Coordinators and students have presented their work at National Service Learning Conferences and at the Conference for Essential Schools. Partnership with the SVA's Service Learning Program engages students in community learning and continue to build student capacity for civic participation and employment. Students are provided with a unique and meaningful learning opportunity.
Because students often provide an infusion of creativity and enthusiasm to a host site, they are matched with a non-profit for the duration of the school year, volunteering every Thursday afternoon at your site (excluding specific dates) between 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Participation in this program also exposes students to potential career options and helps develop a better prepared workforce & active citizens.
ecOasys (by design)
Involved
in many aspects of environmental improvement, Albuquerque resident
Patrik Schumann is strenuously working to expand his project called
Gardenshare for 'hard times subsistence'. Only one of his programs, Gardenshare supports individuals to grow regionally
appropriate varieties and improve self-sustainability. After building up more than 300 edible species and varieties in the nursery and seedbank, Patrik began collecting, grafting, and testing fruit cultivars from repositories of high- and dry-land accessions worldwide. He is also working with a group to collect and re-introduce lost NM-proven material from Homesteader/Camino Real/ Conquista/Spanish/Al-Andalus plantways. Currently husbanding 100's of fruit trees, varieties have been sought out from other high desert regions and brought to Albuquerque as excellent options for improving urban landscapes.
For serious inquiries, contact Patrik through this website for information on the following initiatives:
- "ecOasys high desert" demonstration site
- "Al-Munias Collective" nursery
- "Gardenshare Network"
- "Sembrando Salud" orchard-gardens
New Mexico Water Conservation Alliance
The Alliance is a non-profit organization of people dedicated to water conservation issues. Individuals from municipal, industrial, institutional and commercial sectors have joined together in an effort to exchange information, provide education, and work collaboratively to help ensure a positive water future for the state. Find their newsletter: http://www.conservationcurrent.org/
Kids can get involved too! http://www.waterfestnm.com/
The Plot Thickens is a small garden situated behind the house of Lora Lucero. She donates the land and the water. During the season we get together every 2 weeks to work and share a potluck. We are continuing this practice in the off-season by meeting at member's houses to craft, share info, talk about books, eat and drink. We are a small group (of women) (5 core + others) with varying degrees of experience in vegetable gardening that welcomes everyone to share in the garden and hoping to find more connection and involvement in the neighborhood. The garden is located North of Mountain on 15th st. The address is 1323 15th St NW. The Plot Thickens certainly welcomes new participants -- any age, M/F, any level of experience
RSLP or RESEARCH LEARNING PROGRAM
Projects this semester involve establishing community gardens in Los Duranes (at the Community Center, but not run by the Center) and César Chávez Community Center (run out of the Center). Students will be focusing on these two development opportunities, also open to community members who would like to participate.
The two sites differ greatly --
Los Duranes has a more stable and homogeneous population, a long agricultural tradition in the North Valley, and water often available with access to acequias.
César Chávez in the Southeast Heights has a much more diverse population, more apartment dwellers, no agricultural tradition in place though the diverse cultures in the area historically did cultivate crops at home. Contact Dan Young to assist students and local folks working at each site and contribute to the dialog.
Some details about the RSLP at UNM: http://www.unm.edu/~rslp/about.html
Rio Grande Community Farm "We grow food and crops for both people and wildlife. Many of our food
crops are distributed to local organizations that provide supplemental
food services. We also market our crops at local Farmers Markets and
on-site during the Annual Corn Maze Weekend Festival Markets. Encouraging
the practice of organic and sustainable agricultural methods in our
cities promotes conservation, and supports many important cultural
and environmental objectives including: protecting wildlife habitat,
increasing biological diversity, maintaining cultural identity and
tradition, development of new economic opportunities for farmers and
gardeners, creating a local sustainable food syste farmers and
gardeners, creating a local sustainable food system, and supporting
community vitality." It is a partnership with the City of Albuquerque, Parks and Recreation Open Space Division to offer community based agricultural programs at Los Poblanos Fields, west of 4th st NW on Montano.
US Green Building Council -- New Mexico Chapter is a membership organization for those
interested in Green Building.
http://www.usgbcnm.org/ The USGBC-NM Chapter is a local non-profit with a mission:
to
transform our built environment through education, collaboration and
outreach, to promote environmentally responsible practices that are
economically and socially beneficial to the community. We are a membership organization with nearly 200 members. Membership
has more than doubled since late 2006 as interest in Green Building
and environmental issues is dramatically increasing. As our membership
grows we are able to provide more programs to educate and assist professionals
with an interest in green building.