Syracuse Edible Forest Garden – Week 8 Update and Appeal

Our goal is a modest $2,000 to get this community resource started (compared to the $100,000 being spent on a 1.7 acre food forest start- up in Seattle that is getting press nationwide). Can you help out by giving as little as $5 to get us closer to our goal on IndieGoGo (it’s the difference between IndieGoGo taking 9% versus 4%). Either way, please share!! http://igg.me/p/60978?a=373323 and “like”, “tweet” or “+1” from the campaign page. or come out and lend a hand, a tool, a lunch finger food, or a plant on Saturday April 14.

Cheers ~Frank

WEEK 8 UPDATE – 12 DAYS LEFT!

http://www.indiegogo.com/Rahma-Free-Health-Clinic-Edible-Forest-Garden

1] PROGRESS and APPRECIATIONS
2] LOGISTICS FOR APRIL 14
3] VOLUNTEER NEEDS FOR APRIL 14

1] PROGRESS and APPRECIATIONS

We’re at $1,100 in donations, a bit short of our $2,000 goal, but I hear that lots of campaigns see a flurry of funding in the last week. Thanks to Jessica Maxwell, Lilliana Rose Martinho, Kethleen I Henn, Bryan Coleman, Katherine Korba, Lindsay Speer, and Steve Letkowski for their donations this week. If you’ve claimed a perk(s) with your donation, you have the option pick it up on April 14.

2] LOGISTICS FOR APRIL 14

Looking forward to seeing you on Sat April 14 for our first 2012 “Day of Action” (3100 South Salina St). We’ll arrive on site to kick things off by 9:45 AM, break for lunch at 12:30 PM, and continue on until we’re finished with the tasks at hand (trying to finish by 3:00 PM).

Those tasks include trash pickup, black knot brush removal, weeding, trail layout, sheet mulching with cardboard and wood chips, tree and bush planting, watering and protecting, sign making, and cleanup. We’ll have a brief intro to the project, a demo of mushroom
inoculation, the Mobile Literacy Arts Bus showcasing Say Yes student work, and Contemplative Video production.

To make the most of our experience and be gentle of our one and only Earth, bring if you are able: dish/bowl/napkin and refillable water bottle for eating lunch, tools that we might be short of (shovel, rakes, cart/wheelbarrow, paints/brushes).

3] VOLUNTEER NEEDS FOR APRIL 14

Yes, this is a 100% volunteer effort. We’re hoping for a great turnout (though no idea how many exactly), but have a few set tasks that we could really use your help with.

> Collect and bring cardboard to the garden site (for sheet mulching). > Bring a finger food item to share at lunch.
> Volunteer a timeslot to manage the check-in/info/perks tent.
> Volunteer you and your truck to pick up and drop off tools from the CCE office.

To volunteer for a tent timeslot, or the tool pickup and dropoff contact Frank at 315-308-1372 or frcetera@alchemicalnursery.org. If you can bring cardboard or food, do it! Please consider making a donation today, and if you can’t, please share on Facebook or Twitter using the share tools. Thank You :>)

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Frank Raymond Cetera
The Alchemical Nursery
200 S. Geddes St, Syracuse NY 13204
315.308.1372
http://www.AlchemicalNursery.org

Support the Rahma Edible Forest Garden in Syracuse at
http://www.indiegogo.com/Rahma-Free-Health-Clinic-Edible-Forest-Garden