Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Vision

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Hazelwood Urban Gardens
HUGS

"All great achievements require time."
~Maya Angelou

Our mission is to transform littered, vandalized vacant lots into robust and sustainable urban gardens.

Develop Hazelwood Community support,

Develop support external to Hazelwood Community,

Develop an urban garden where volunteers will work on leased lots,

Supervised gardening by the HUGS gardening committee,

Grow produce to be distributed to residents of Hazelwood,

Grow fresh produce for Hazelwood's residents,

Foster a sense of belonging and pride in the gardens,

Create a positive healthy outdoor gathering space in Hazelwood,

Create an opportunity for Hazelwood residents - young and old - to learn gardening, nutrition, and environmental stewardship skills.

The growth of urban gardens in Hazelwood will help reduce litter,
reduce graffiti and crime while growing pride in the community.

Volunteering with Hazelwood Urban Gardens is easy, fun and educational as well as gaining energy sharing the outdoors and sunshine with your neighbors. We are only asking that you make a commitment of a couple of hours each month during the growing season. Donations are also accepted.

Send name, address, phone, email, interests to

Hazelwood Urban Gardens
4800 Second Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15207
hazelwoodurbangardens4all@gmail.com


Interests:

Garden Steward
Gardening/Planting
Watering
Building/Maintenance
Administration
Fundraising
Education

Ways to Participate:

Community Supporters
Garden Volunteers
Volunteer Garden Managers
Financial Supporters
Fundraisers
Good Will Advocates
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Monday, March 1, 2010

regenerating the life and food web

Hazelwood Urban Gardens was created to facilitate an increase in the amount of local food grown cooperatively in this Pittsburgh neighborhood. It is a part of continuing work to regenerate the local ecosystem so damaged by Pittsburgh's role in the Industrial Revolution. Some aspects of our history must be returned to, such as that almost all food used to be grown locally, prepared/processed locally, and consumed locally. And organic waste material was returned to the Earth. The present troubles the planet finds itself in make clear we have to return to this aspect of our past.

Hazelwood now has a farmstand. We are working toward a community grocery/food co-op. By fits and starts we have been struggling toward a farmers market. This spring we will have a permaculture planting by the newly formed Pittsburgh Food Forests. And Hazelwood Urban Gardens is working to organize cooperatively run gardens to grow healthy food to distribute locally.

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