Wednesday, December 19, 2012
ECO City Farms, an urban farm near Hyattsville, serves as an education tool for both students and parents.
Right in the backyard of Hyattsville sits a small urban farm. While the two-year-old Edmonston farm has no immediate plans to work with schools on providing produce to students, the farmers promote healthy eating through a side door—education. At ECO City Farms, inspiring students to eat healthy requires more than just handing them the right nutrients. The key, they believe, is to get them curious about the origin of the ingredients and reconnect them with their food. “Our generation ... has a complete disconnect with food,” Viviana Lindo, the director of community education, said, adding that since much of their food is bought at stores, most kids do not know the origins of the food they are eating. What’s even worse, she said, is that …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Peaches, pears and figs! Oh my! ECO City Farms seeks volunteers to help with 30 fruit trees this Saturday.
ECO City Farms needs your help plating some fruit trees this weekend, but they plan on making it worth your while with live music, food and ice cream. ECO City Farms, a small Edmonston-based urban agriculture project, will be hosting a tree planting party this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. They will be planting 30 new donated fruit trees, including peach, pear, fig, pomegranate, kiwi, apple and cherry trees. "We want every square foot of our small urban farm to produce an abundance of fresh and healthy food and we need your help," reads an announcement emailed to the HOPE listserv. If you show up, you are encouraged to bring along some garden tools, especially needed are shovels and pick axes. The grounds will also be open to guided …
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ECO City Farms hosts tree planting party on June 23, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Edmonston-based ECO City Farm, in partnership with the Crossroads Farmers Market, helped local immigrants learn about urban farming.
A local program helping immigrants learn the ways of urban farming graduated their first class Saturday. The program, which was taught at ECO City Farm in Edmonston, was the brainchild of Michelle Dudley, co-director of Crossroads Farmers Market in Takoma Park, and Vinnie Bevivino, formerly of ECO City Farm, who now runs his own urban farming consulting firm called Seed and Cycle. Seven students from around Prince George’s County and even as far as Gaithersburg graduated Saturday from the program and some even received a $2,700 stipend to start their own urban farms. Dudley said the idea arose when there was a surplus from a $60,000 grant the farmers market had received from Project for Public Space. She and Bevivino decided that a market …
Maia
10:54 am on Thursday, December 27, 2012
This is a wonderful initiative. We are also launching a new product, Yumbox, which through its design promotes nutritionally balanced lunches for children. The bento-like lunches definitely promote variety and creativity. www.yumboxlunch.com more ›