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Joshua Gerken
- Male
- Cleveland, Ohio
- United States
- Blog Posts (1)
- Conversation (4)
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- Communities (9)
- Photos (4)
- Photo Albums
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Joshua Gerken's Communities
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Compost People
61 members
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North Union Farmers Mark…
57 members
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The Food We Have - The F…
35 members
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Cleveland Urban Growers …
107 members
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Eat Local Challenge
69 members
Joshua Gerken's Discussions
Local Grants Available for Growing
1 Reply
Started this conversation. Last reply by Jeff Goddin Apr 3, 2009.
Stimulus / Federal Money for Local Food
3 Replies
Started this conversation. Last reply by Renata Mar 3, 2009.
Joshua Gerken's Page
Latest Activity
Joshua Gerken joined Peter McDermott's group
Cleveland Urban Growers Association
We are a community of market gardeners (for-profit) who meet regularly to learn how we can best support each other and better our practice.
Joshua Gerken joined Peter McDermott's group
20% Local@Home
By joining this group you pledge to eat one local meal for each day of Local Foods Week 2010.Post photos and recipes of your meals here on this page!See More
Joshua Gerken joined Jocelyn Kirkwood's group
Chicken keepers
For anyone keeping chickens, past, present, future. Health questions, raising tips, DIY solutions, sharing stories, and general networking amongst chicken keepers.
Joshua Gerken joined MikeD's group
BeeNEO
Beekeepers and honey producers from the region swarm here to share knowledge and swap tales from the bee yard.
Joshua Gerken replied to Nicole Klue's discussion Cleveland Kitchen Incubator"That site is a good idea for local ideas. Tahnks for posting it here. (You beat me to it.) Highly recommended: http://www.clevelandideas.com/"
Jeff Goddin replied to Joshua Gerken's discussion Local Grants Available for Growing"Great to know. That's plenty for a small operation to get tools, seeds, and amendments for a 30-60 family CSA.
I've been experimenting with an idea to do an urban CSA for a while now. I've grown veggies in my own backyard as wel as…"
Joshua Gerken joined David Pearl's group
PolyCultures: Food Where We Live
PolyCultures: Food Where We Live is a feature-length movie portraying the diverse communities of Northeast Ohio growing a more sustainable and local food system. It was produced by LESS Productions in conjunction with the New Agrarian Center.See More
Joshua Gerken joined Lisa-Jean Sylvia's group
City Fresh
City Fresh is a nonprofit program of the New Agrarian Center that works to increase availability and affordability of healthy, local food in NE Ohio
Kim McDonald left a comment for Joshua Gerken"Hi Josh. I'm so happy that you are interested in helping to document this project! If you have time to sit down and chat we could meet at Liquid Planet on Clifton or at the Gypsy Bean Coffee Shop in Gordon Square, both of which are near the…"
Joshua Gerken left a comment for Kim McDonald"Hi Kim. That sounds like a great project and I'd love to learn more about it. I'm ready to shoot anytime, especially in order to document the current condition of the land. (And people.) Should we have a conversation about the scope of…"
Kim McDonald left a comment for Joshua Gerken"Hey Josh. My name is Kim and I just started the Good Earth Community Garden on West 96th and Madison Avenue. We are partnering with Catholic Charities Office on Refugees and Migrations and so far have about 12 families from Somalia, Bhutan, Burma…"
Joshua Gerken posted a discussionLocal Grants Available for Growing
Got the following from the City of Cleveland website. There's local startup money available for growing and selling produce:Gardening for Greenbacks:Grants of up to $3000 are available for…See More
Profile Information
- Your business, organization or project:
- Video Director, Photographer & Editor
- Your website:
- http://www.niceredshorts.com
- Tell us about yourself:
- Think professional documentary. Your stories are brilliant and telling them online through video might help build helpful alliances in order to thrive.
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in producing a video. I'm a graphic designer and marketing professional looking to contribute to these local gardening and business communities.
- What gifts can you give to Cleveland's local food community?
- Video Services (Web, Youtube, DVD, etc.) and Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- What knowledge and practices do you want to learn?
- Urban / community gardening with sustainable extended growing seasons
- What about local food makes you most excited?
- Eating it. Seriously, it's healthy, practical and sustainable.
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Joshua Gerken's Photos
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Brilliant Creative Documentaries
This is an excellent array of short documentary style videos from the creative office of Hillman Curtis. Telling stories with motion pictures, interviews and music is what I do in Cleveland. Please let me know if you have a story to tell. I may be able to help bring it to life on the web. Cheers.
Posted on April 2, 2009 at 8:30pm
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 8:23pm on March 29, 2009, Kim McDonald said…
- Hi Josh. I'm so happy that you are interested in helping to document this project! If you have time to sit down and chat we could meet at Liquid Planet on Clifton or at the Gypsy Bean Coffee Shop in Gordon Square, both of which are near the garden plot, if it's convenient for you. Lunch time, after-work or weekends would all work for me. You can also e-mail me at ecologique@live.com and I'll give you my phone number and we can discuss the project over the phone if you prefer. After I meet with some of the refugee families, I will find out when and if they are interested in being interviewed...I was working with a Somali family last year and if they want to participate in the garden I am sure that they would love to be interviewed. Sometimes it is good to arrange for a translator (I like having the kids do it, when it isn't an official or a life-or-death type situation-their translations can be a bit free-form; definitely fun and interesting, but a professional can also be helpful to get the facts and/or nuances in a narration..) I'm sure our American gardeners would be happy to be interviewed as well. Just let me know what you'd like to do. Thanks again! Kim
- At 6:39pm on March 29, 2009, Kim McDonald said…
- Hey Josh. My name is Kim and I just started the Good Earth Community Garden on West 96th and Madison Avenue. We are partnering with Catholic Charities Office on Refugees and Migrations and so far have about 12 families from Somalia, Bhutan, Burma and Burundi (the 3 B's) as well as a diverse group of community gardeners from the neighborhood and surrounding suburbs. I am also going to be reaching out to Central American immigrant (farmers) if space allows..I would LOVE to document this process and was going to go out and buy a cheap dig camera, but if you could help point me in the right direction or help at all with the production of a short video that would be awesome..Right now we are starting with an abandoned piece of land that looks (and is) pretty rough, so I definitely would like to document that and maybe interview some neighborhood people and our farmers-to-be if you are into it..Thanks! Kim
- At 1:45pm on February 20, 2009,
Maggie Re said… - you say potato, i say pototo
you say heirloom, i say TOMAAATOOO!
haha- garden jokes are the best!
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