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Volunteer Orientation: Paris Gardens and Community Gardens
Wednesday June 10th 6:00 pm at 900 Martin Luther King Street South
It's an informal potluck, so bring some food!
Wednesday June 10th 6:00 pm at 900 Martin Luther King Street South
It's an informal potluck, so bring some food!
The Paris Gardens Project
Paris Gardens are front yard gardens, installed by Green Florida volunteers with donated plants and soil, meant to keep alive the memory of Paris Whitehead-Hamilton an 8 year-old girl killed by gun violence in Bartlett Park this past April.
Green Florida works with Bartlett Park homeowners to design and install front yard gardens with vegetables, fruits, and Florida native plants. Together, these form a sustainable landscape that conserves water, provides food for each household, and helps us remember Paris' death and the need to end the violence in the neighborhood.
We need your help! Sign up to participate and help us reduce crime from our neighborhoods through urban greenscapes. Or make a donation. $250 is all we need for each front yard garden. Contribute today.
Paris Gardens are front yard gardens, installed by Green Florida volunteers with donated plants and soil, meant to keep alive the memory of Paris Whitehead-Hamilton an 8 year-old girl killed by gun violence in Bartlett Park this past April. Green Florida works with Bartlett Park homeowners to design and install front yard gardens with vegetables, fruits, and Florida native plants. Together, these form a sustainable landscape that conserves water, provides food for each household, and helps us remember Paris' death and the need to end the violence in the neighborhood.We need your help! Sign up to participate and help us reduce crime from our neighborhoods through urban greenscapes. Or make a donation. $250 is all we need for each front yard garden. Contribute today.
February 28th, 2009
A Sense of Community in an Urban Garden, Sue Carlton, St Petersburg Times
Why make a gift to support the purchase of the garden?
1) The garden serves the community by improving a corner of the neighborhood, providing affordable healthy food, and educating young people.
2) Purchasing community garden land is a long-term investment in a neighborhood's quality of life.
3) Community gardens around the country get torn down or face huge fund-raising challenges when they don't deal early on with acquiring their land. There are numerous examples of this. We want our garden to be a long-term resource for the community.
Please make a gift today. A contribution of $100 or $500 makes you a Lifetime Member of the Garden. We'll be reaching out to our neighbors through letters, phone calls, house parties and fun events at the garden itself. Join us! Call Andrea Hildebran at 727-643-7189 to get involved.
Want to hold a house party for Green Florida? Download our kit here to learn more.
Green Florida In The News:
February 22, 2009, St Petersburg Times "Tampa Council Member Backs More Gardens"
September 16, 2008 Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Award "Best Way to Sow Your Oats (and Tomatoes Too)"
March 12, 2008 St Petersburg Times "Happiness to Sprout on a Dreary Lot"
February 27, 2008 Creative Loafing "Looking to Plant in Bartlett Park"
Green Florida's Mission Statement
Green Florida is a non-profit organization that creates community gardens and helps organize neighborhoods for the transition to a green economy.
June 13th, 2009
2nd Annual Summer Shuffleboard Event
Join Green Florida and Friends for the 2nd Annual Summer Shuffleboard Event! $5.00 dollars at the door provides you with an evening of local food and beverages, live music, a silent art auction, and shuffleboard courts!! All proceeds go to helping develop urban green spaces in communities around the state of Florida. See you there!
Event Information
St. Petersburg Shuffboard Club
$5.00 cover at the door
7:00pm-11:00pm
559 Mirror Lake Drive North, St. Petersburg, FL
The Bartlett Park Community Garden
is the first major project of Green Florida. It is located at 1443 Highland Street South, at the corner of Newton Avenue South. Newton Avenue is between 14th and 15th Avenues S near Martin Luther King, Jr. Street. We meet every Saturday from 9:00 am to Noon to work on projects like the fence, landscaping, opening up new plots, repairs, etc.
The Garden's Organizing Meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 6:00 pm with a potluck dinner. Our next meeting will be Wednesday April 8th at 6:00pm, at 900-C Martin Luther King Street South in St Petersburg. Call Shari Hazlett for more information at 813-787-1192.
Membership is just $25 per year
Green Florida is supported by the contributions of our members. Our affordable rate of $25/year or $3/month lets you sign up for a garden plot that could provide you hundreds of dollars worth of food each year. You can also become a member in order to participate in beautifying our corner of Bartlett Park, or to assist with programs for kids, or to learn about water conservation projects. Join Green Florida to support gardens and a sustainable world!
For more information, call Andrea Hildebran at 727-643-7189. Click here for a pdf copy of the Garden's Rules of Operation.
Feb. 5, 2009
Tampa Residents Launch Community Garden Project in Conjunction with Green Florida
Residents who want community gardens in Tampa decided last night to team up with Green Florida to begin working on creating a permanent network of urban community garden spaces in the city of Tampa. At a meeting of more than 60 people, Green Florida was chosen by participants to help coordinate local outreach, fundraising, and site selection efforts toward the establishment of gardens envisioned in Seminole Heights, East Tampa and other locations.
"With a region-wide network, we have the potential to develop gardens that will be beautiful additions to our neighborhoods, provide fresh, healthy food to families, run educational programs for young people, and open the door to job training programs in emerging green industries related to gardening." said Robin Milcowitz, a member of the Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association (OSHNA), "Helping build a larger organization will strengthen all our gardens on a lot of fronts."
Expressing support for the effort were representatives of OSHNA, Sweetwater Organic Community Farm, the Tampa Downtown Market, Mother's Organics Humus Farms, and The Urban Charrette, along with Tampa City Councilwoman Mary Mulhern, who has been a catalyst in Tampa for gardens and other environmental projects.
For more information about the Tampa organizing effort, visit Green Florida's website, www.green-florida.org, or contact Robin Milcowitz at robin@greenerpixels.com
Thank You!
Thank You to all the generous people who have contributed time, materials, expertise and money to the accomplishments listed below. Green Florida members from Bartlett Park and throughout the city have worked hard to make this possible, alongside our sponsors.
New vegetable garden plots to be available at the Bartlett Park Community Garden the Spring.
Members of Green Florida are eligible to sign up first-come, first-serve for garden plots, which are theirs to use according to the Gardens Rules of Operation. There is currently a waiting list for garden plots. The rules require that garden plots be tended actively or turned over to the next person on a waiting list.
How Can I Get A Garden Plot?
1) Become a member for $25/year (or $3/month)
2) Come on Saturday mornings from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon to help establish the new garden beds on the Westside of the garden.
3) Contact Andrea at 727-643-7189 for a spot on the waiting list.
Ongoing Projects YOU can help with:
To get involved, join us at the garden on Saturday mornings at 9:00 AM, or call 727-643-7189 for more information.
Get More Involved! Our organizing team communicates through a yahoogroup called BartlettParkGarden.
New vegetable garden plots to be available at the Bartlett Park Community Garden the Spring.
Members of Green Florida are eligible to sign up first-come, first-serve for garden plots, which are theirs to use according to the Gardens Rules of Operation. There is currently a waiting list for garden plots. The rules require that garden plots be tended actively or turned over to the next person on a waiting list.
How Can I Get A Garden Plot?
1) Become a member for $25/year (or $3/month)
2) Come on Saturday mornings from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon to help establish the new garden beds on the Westside of the garden.
3) Contact Andrea at 727-643-7189 for a spot on the waiting list.
Ongoing Projects YOU can help with:
- Help with Saturday Morning Market booth
- Organizing fundraisers and events
- Do outreach in the community
- Plan educational programs for the garden
Get More Involved! Our organizing team communicates through a yahoogroup called BartlettParkGarden.
