This weekend, Kitty Seelig, our Executive Director, had the privilege of attending The People’s Food Summit at Riverside Park. She participated in a strategic planning session with people divided into various topic areas. Subjects covered included: Urban Agriculture, Transportation, Health and…
Helpings of Hope will be having garden cleanup days on Saturday, April 1 and April 8 from 10am-2pm. We will be preparing the Nora garden for summer planting. We could use your help with weed pulling, trimming, digging small trenches around…
I can attest to the pleasure and pain that are the opposite sides of the gardening coin. For community gardens to be successful in their rugged urban environments — to say nothing of making more than a minor contribution to…
Our century, which began and has developed under the insignia of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then took it as its life model. We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast…
On Thursday, October 22nd, Kitty Seelig (Executive Director) and Bruce Garrison (President of the Board) were invited to give a presentation on Hunger and ways that we can close the Food Gap in our society and in our local situation.…
Hunger — the painful sensation that someone feels on a regular basis due to lack of food — is a relatively rare phenomenon in America today, but it nevertheless afflicts a small number of U.S. residents on an intermittent basis.…
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