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Joshua Gerken's Communities
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Compost People
24 members
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North Union Farmers Mark…
44 members
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The Food We Have - The F…
25 members
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Cleveland Urban Growers…
66 members
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20% Local@Home
46 members
Joshua Gerken's Discussions
Cleveland Kitchen Incubator
Replied May. 8, 2009
Local Grants Available for Growing
1 Reply
Started this conversation. Last reply by Jeff Goddin Apr. 4, 2009.
Stimulus / Federal Money for Local Food
Replied Feb. 25, 2009
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People connected through E4S who are involved with composting
For friends of the North Union Farmers Market.
We are a community of market gardeners (for-profit and more) who meet regularly to learn how we can best support each other and better our practice.
By joining this group you pledge to spend 20% of your household food budget on local foods by 2019. Start with 10% in 2009 and add just 1% per year for the next 10 years. How many households will pledge in 2009?
For anyone keeping chickens, past, present, future. Health questions, raising tips, DIY solutions, sharing stories, and general networking amongst chicken keepers.
Beekeepers and honey producers from the region swarm here to share knowledge and swap tales from the bee yard.
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/
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 my neighbors and…
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.
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
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- Your business or organization:
- Video Director, Photographer & Editor
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- http://www.niceredshorts.com
- Your e-mail (if you want to share):
- joshgerken@gmail.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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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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