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 VA Crop Mob

First Richmond Crop Mob

Richmond Crop Mob
Initiative Launch

March 28

RICHMOND, VA—Richmond Crop Mob will hold its first “mob” event Sunday, March 28, at the William Byrd Community House’s (WBCH) new urban Farmlet. The event will begin at 12pm and continue all afternoon, followed by a casual dinner hosted by WBCH and Crop Mob coordinators.
Richmond Crop Mob is an initiative of Richmond Ground Up, a network established by VCU 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, learn tips and tricks from other urban farmers, 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’s first “mob” will take place March 28 at WBCH’s Byrd House Farmlet. The Byrd House Farmlet is an urban farm intended both to feed the WBCH community and to educate youth enrolled in WBCH’s Early Childhood and After School Programs about “the cycle from seed to plant to market to plate by gardening and growing their own food and selling it at the Byrd House Market.” Please visit www.wbch.org for more information. Participants, called “mobbers,” at this event can anticipate planting, building a hoop house, spreading wood chips, clearing brush and building compost bins.


Those who wish to join the Richmond Crop Mob initiative should email richmondgroundup@gmail.com, or visit our website richmondgroundup.blogspot.com. We are also on Facebook