Community garden update! SGA sponsorship & faculty support
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Hello all,
It was so good to see everyone on Thursday and to begin this renewed social and intellectual engagement with food and sustainability at UMBC and beyond our walls. To those who couldn't come on Thursday, we look forward to meeting and connecting with you going forward. Thanks especially to Rita Turner who has taken the initiative on this, and to Tanvi Gadhia for her help.
We decided on Thursday to meet again on Thursday, May 9, same time and place, 12-1 pm, INDS 529. (We may want to revisit this time if it is impossible for some of us to make.) Rita and I will work up an agenda and circulate it before that meeting. If you want to put an item on the agenda, please let us know. We will at least review how we want to structure ourselves and our communications. We will also review the developing plans for the UMBC Community Garden and consider ways to support and engage with that initiative through the summer and beyond. For the moment, if anyone wants information about the Community Garden, contact Jack Neumeier (who is on this email).
In the meantime, here are a few announcements:
Tomorrow, April 29: Biologist + activist Sandra Steingraber will discuss the impact of fracking + the intersections of the environment + public health in the 50 yrs since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.4pm in AOK Library 7th floor
Monday May 6th, 2013
CLIMATE CHANGE: TAKING ACTION
WHAT WE KNOW & WHAT WE CAN DO!
Mike Tidwell, Founder and Executive Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
4:00-5:30pm
UMBC Library Gallery (next to atrium)
Trips to Great Kids Farm, www.greatkidsfarm.org
I'm co-leading several upcoming tours of Great Kids Organic Farm in Catonsville for the broader community and welcome any of you to participate in one of these.
Wednesdays May 1 and May 15, 10:30 am
Saturday, May 18, 9:30 am.
Timely food news: For those who are interested in hunger and food security, a matter of immediate concern is that the food stamp program (SNAP -- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), our country's primary anti-hunger program, is currently in danger of being substantially cut. Nearly half of SNAP recipients are children who are especially vulnerable to insufficient nutrition. http://www.nokidhungry.org/problem/hunger-facts. If you want to voice support for not cutting SNAP benefits in this next round of Farm Bill negotiations beginning in May, you can do so through this link. .http://www.nokidhungry.org/snap/protect-snap
Looking forward to seeing everyone in May.
Jill Wrigley
INDS Adjunct Instructor and Student Adviser
Fine Arts, Room 546
