Hey Crop Mobbers, exciting news from WBCH!!!!!
Sally Brown, VMFA instructor and Architectural Journalist, long time Arts and Education advocate and William Byrd Community House (WBCH) supporter, has challenged our supporters to help us "Eat Good- Grow Great"! Ms. Brown will donate $1,000 toward the Byrd House Farmlet, WBCH’s urban farm project to feed our community. We need your help! For every $20 we raise, Sally will match $10 up to $1,000. This means our "Eat Good-Grow Great Challenge Grant" will raise $3,000 to build our Byrd House Farmlet on the land located behind our gymnasium on Linden Street. These monies will purchase compost, seeds, and equipment needed to produce abundant crops from our farmlet. The produce from the farmlet will be used to provide our food pantry with fresh, locally grown food. THAT means the families we serve will EAT GOOD food and GROW GREAT minds and bodies!
Donating is easy. Click on Donate Now! before May 1. We would like to announce the total raised on Opening Day of Byrd House Market, Tuesday, May 4. Be sure to write "Farmlet" in the memo line to make sure your contribution is matched to the Byrd House Farmlet / Eat Good-Grow Great Challenge Grant. Thank You!!!
http://www.wbch.org
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Richmond Crop Mob is an initiative of Richmond Ground Up, a network established by graduate students to utilize social media in addressing community needs. Through media such as Facebook and Twitter, Richmond Crop Mob will alert all of its participants and followers to urban gardening volunteering opportunities, including dates, times and locations. Followers can choose to attend these “mob” events, spend time working outdoors, and help build a sustainable urban agriculture movement here in Richmond. The Richmond Crop Mob is based on the original Crop Mob initiative based in the Triangle region of North Carolina.
Richmond Crop Mob is a social media advocacy movement and alert tool for urban farmers, gardeners, and green thumb volunteers. This new platform allows interested participants to engage in growing urban farming/gardening movements throughout the Richmond, Virginia community and facilitates access to information about ongoing urban farming practices.
Through social media, the Richmond Crop Mob will alert volunteers to unpaid urban farming projects that are hosted by community organizations. These short calls for participation will be advertised through text messages, blog posts, tweets, facebook updates, etc. Like the growing flash mobs movement around the world, the Richmond Crop Mob asks for volunteer participation with local communities and strives to create awareness about current social issues. Ultimately, the Richmond Crop Mob will support the successful implementation of volunteer engagement with urban farming and gardening programs in Richmond.
Richmond Crop Mob seeks help from volunteers to assist in the needs of Richmond’s urban farming and gardening community partners.
To get on our volunteer list please ontact us at-
RichmondGroundUp@gmail.com
“Anywhere there’s dirt, a community can grow.” Rob Jones (Crop Mob participant)
Richmond Crop Mob is an initiative of Richmond Ground Up, a network established by graduate students to utilize social media in addressing community needs. Through media such as Facebook and Twitter, Richmond Crop Mob will alert all of its participants and followers to urban gardening volunteering opportunities, including dates, times and locations. Followers can choose to attend these “mob” events, spend time working outdoors, and help build a sustainable urban agriculture movement here in Richmond. The Richmond Crop Mob is based on the original Crop Mob initiative based in the Triangle region of North Carolina.
Richmond Crop Mob is a social media advocacy movement and alert tool for urban farmers, gardeners, and green thumb volunteers. This new platform allows interested participants to engage in growing urban farming/gardening movements throughout the Richmond, Virginia community and facilitates access to information about ongoing urban farming practices.
Through social media, the Richmond Crop Mob will alert volunteers to unpaid urban farming projects that are hosted by community organizations. These short calls for participation will be advertised through text messages, blog posts, tweets, facebook updates, etc. Like the growing flash mobs movement around the world, the Richmond Crop Mob asks for volunteer participation with local communities and strives to create awareness about current social issues. Ultimately, the Richmond Crop Mob will support the successful implementation of volunteer engagement with urban farming and gardening programs in Richmond.
Richmond Crop Mob seeks help from volunteers to assist in the needs of Richmond’s urban farming and gardening community partners.
To get on our volunteer list please ontact us at-
RichmondGroundUp@gmail.com
“Anywhere there’s dirt, a community can grow.” Rob Jones (Crop Mob participant)
Who are we?
Richmond Ground Up is a site dedicated to organizations and citizens who want to use new forms of social media to address contemporary concerns or publicize events. This open listing offers organizations and individuals a place to come together and share information about their community and projects in the Richmond, Virginia area.
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