27/08/2024
Skip the garden center and grow your own transplants. Learn how September 12. Free. Register today.
Don't buy plants, grow them yourself from seeds!
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E.A.T. South - Educate. Act. Transform. EAT South is an urban teaching farm that engages our local community by gathering around, learning about and growing food.
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Montgomery's Urban Teaching Farm
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22/08/2024
The Feeding Change conference aims to bring together leaders, innovators, and advocates dedicated to improving Alabama’s food system. The conference will appeal to all organizations and individuals involved in food, nutrition, and agriculture within Alabama. This event will be an excellent opportunity to network, share insights, and collaborate on initiatives that can significantly impact Alabama’s food system.
Early Bird Registration: Save $100 by registering before September 9th!
Registration Link: aub.ie/feedingchangereg
Discounted Lodging Rate: aub.ie/feedingchangelodging
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
Alabama Arise, Feeding Alabama, Live Well Alabama, Alabama Extension, Alabama Dietetic Association, Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network - ASAN, Alabama Public Health, Carver Integrative Sustainability Center, Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries, VOICES for Alabama's Children, Auburn University College of Human Sciences, Auburn University Office of Sustainability, Auburn University Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Auburn University Department of Nutritional Sciences, Cary Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Voices for Healthy Kids, Birmingham-Jefferson Food Policy Council, Alabama Association of RC&D Councils, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Alabama Farmers Cooperative, Alabama Ag Credit, Alabama Cattlemen's Association, Society of St. Andrew-Alabama, Bread for the World Alabama, Alliance to End Hunger, Alabama Partnership for Children, EAT South, Alabama Farmers Federation, Jones Valley Teaching Farm, Alabama Chambers, Auburn Chamber of Commerce, Alabama Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association, Alabama Office of Minority Affairs, Alabama Farm to School Program, The Dairy Alliance, Alabama Possible, United Way of Central Alabama, Blazer Kitchen, Alabama Human Sciences Extension, Urban SNAP-Ed - Alabama Extension, Alabama Emergency Management Agency, Heart of Alabama Food Bank, Food Bank of North Alabama, West Alabama Food Bank, Food Bank of East Alabama, Feeding the Gulf Coast
22/08/2024
Here's a sneak peek at what's coming in September...
22/08/2024
If you want to get out and do some hands-on work in a garden, join Alabama Herb Society this Saturday and see what's growing in their garden.
21/08/2024
Updating your kitchen? Have an extra working stove or want to buy a new stove for a very good cause? Get in touch with Young Men on a Mission Program.
We are dedicated to making sure our youth get the experience needed to become outstanding young adults. We are looking for a new or used stove for a group of outstanding students to continue to work on their cooking skills. If you would like to donate or know someone who would like to please contact Mr. Rankins by DM or at [email protected]. Thank you in advance.
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21/08/2024
Join us for our third Urban Agriculture in Alabama workshop and learn how to grow and propagate herbs. We're providing lunch, and you need too register so we know how much food we need.
🌿 Cultivate Your Kitchen: Grow 12 Essential Herbs! 🌿
Join us and Mid-South RC&D on Saturday, Sept 7, from 9 AM – 12 PM at the Alabama Herb Society Garden, Peter Crump Center in Montgomery, AL. Learn the secrets to growing essential herbs that will elevate your culinary game! Plus, enjoy a delicious lunch on us. Don't miss out on this hands-on workshop!
📍 1751 Cong W L Dickinson Dr, Montgomery, AL 36107
🍴 Lunch provided!
👩🌾 Perfect for all skill levels!
Register here: https://urbanagricultureinalabama.org/montgomery/
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21/08/2024
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20/08/2024
🌱 Attend the Alabama Regenerative Growers Conference! 🌱
📅 Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024
📍 Location: Jones Valley Teaching Farm, 701 25th St N, Birmingham, AL 35203
Calling all ecological farmers, organic producers, and holistic thinkers! This one-day gathering features expert-led classes, vendors, and delicious lunch options (vegetarian & gluten-free available). 🌾
Registation is $20!
Speakers from the farming community and universities will discuss agroecology topics tailored for both commercial producers and home gardeners. Don’t miss the pre-session farm tour—limited spots available with pre-registration!
Hosted by Alabama Extension, Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network - ASAN, and Jones Valley Teaching Farm.
Sponsors include: Dirtcraft Living Soils, Cawaco RC&D, Southern SARE, Hiwassee Products, Springs Farm Supply, Sweet Grown Alabama, Johnny’s Seeds, and Crotovina. 🌿
Register here: https://www.aces.edu/event/alabama-regenerative-growers-conference/https://www.aces.edu/event/alabama-regenerative-growers-conference/
16/08/2024
Our next garden class is in partnership with AIDB Montgomery Regional Center. Registration is required. To register, call LaShawn Washington, 334-328-3817 (vp).
16/08/2024
Pottery in the garden!
The Montgomery Botanical Gardens at Oak Park kicks off its fall season with a Pottery in the Garden class, to be taught in the Wisdom Wood outdoor classroom by Margaret Barber on Saturday, September 14 at 10:00 AM. The class will teach participants the fundamentals of pottery and the opportunity to....
15/08/2024
Oh my my my! The Boston area has some very lovely people and some really wonderful urban farming programs for communities. Farmer Amanda had the opportunity to tour with Michael. The secret alley entrance is so misleading because the farm boasts bountiful gardens and a geothermal multi-purpose greenhouse. The 150 person CSA supports 40 local farms and they employ youth, work at school gardens and donate a ton of produce at weekly giveaways. Feeling inspired!
15/08/2024
Bees for your school. Grant opens Sept 4!
The Bee Grant program allows for schools and non-profit organizations to receive support for educational honey beehives, so students can observe bees up…
13/08/2024
More wasps!
Hi. It's us again. Your weird friends who always want to show you creepy nature things. Let's talk about the fraternal potter wasp.
This artistic wasp makes little pots. But why? When a female fraternal potter wasp is creating her future generation, she creates a tiny mud jar with bits of water and soil. This process usually takes her a couple of hours, after which, she sticks her abdomen inside the mini pot and lays a single egg. Now comes the fun part.
The female wasp seeks out moth and butterfly larvae. Once she acquires her target, she stings the caterpillar in the head, paralyzing it. She then takes her comatose caterpillar victim back to the mud pot, stuffs it inside, and seals it shut. Once the baby wasp larvae hatches, it will then feed on the still alive caterpillar for many meals to come. What a great mom.
Photo of a fraternal potter wasp by Michael Schramm/USFWS
13/08/2024
Wasps! Pollinators and amazing garden predators. Learn more and love them! (and remember bees sting, too, but everyone has decided they're critical to the planet. so are wasps AND they'll eat the worms on your collards )
Join us to learn more about the diverse lives of wasps! Pollinator Conservation Specialists, Jennifer Hopwood and Rae Powers will outline the roles of wasps, highlight some key groups, outline conservation measures, and address concerns about wasps.This webinar will be recorded and available on our....
11/08/2024
Here's a common pest of our summer garden. They love to taste your tomatoes which makes the surface discolored and makes them taste weird, too.
If you’re spending time out in the garden this time of year, you’re probably seeing a lot of Eastern Leaf-footed Bugs (Leptoglossus phyllopus). They’re common on a wide range of plants in the South, including thistles, roses, sunflowers, yucca, tomatoes, okra, peaches, and cucumbers. Eastern Leaf-footed Bugs are named after the “leaf” on their back legs. These structures are thought to help males fight each other over access to females.
09/08/2024
Alabama is blessed with abundant water resources. Learn simple changes you can make to keep our water clean. We need it!
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the Alabama Herb Society’s October meeting/event.
Our guest speaker will be Ms. Jennifer Barker from ADEM. She will conduct an hour presentation on water pollutants and how they enter our water ways as a nonpoint source pollution.
The meeting will be @ 1:00 p.m. at 436 Coliseum Blvd (Montgomery Ballroom & Dance Studio).
We sincerely look forward to seeing you there!
08/08/2024
This compost site is one of four like it in Massachusetts, where Black Earth turns food scraps and leaves into “black gold” for the garden. Farmer Amanda got a personal tour from veteran Composter and Regional Site Operations Manager, Syed D**g.
Several tons of food scraps are picked up curbside every day. Leaves, horse bedding and hardwood grinding are stockpiled on site. And residents can drop off yard trimmings.
The material is turned first into aerated piles then into larger windrows, then finally screened into a fine dark crumbly soil magic.
The Black Earth compost is sold by the bag, truckload and also blended as a raised bed mix.
07/08/2024
Zoom on in!
Join us tomorrow for our next Virtual Gardening Training with Bionca Lindsey! 🌿
This month, we will be talking about how we can save seeds from our garden for the future 🌱
Register for tomorrow's training and the monthly series at the link below! ⬇️
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuceGrrjMoH9b9s_5dTME7O5qSYQXCvHFD?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1e3TTI6bCJADOT0uoiBabcgmbhNKPw8amtgUbE4-geWqcEbtdFcGK74lg_aem_8wB__Bw5RPLiLyb-silHzA #/registration
07/08/2024
Ye olde farmer is learning new things. Now you can view our 2024 Resource Guide for Educators as a flip book.
07/08/2024
Today, Wednesday, go!
Don’t miss Wednesday’s Lunch and Learn.
07/08/2024
We had such a great group of gardeners at our first Fall & Winter Gardening workshop-Master Gardeners, Alabama Herb Society members, Alabama Farm to Early Care and Education, Baled It and others! If you missed it, join us this Sunday at 2pm at 6120 Trotman Road.
07/08/2024
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07/08/2024
If you missed Sunday's workshop, we've got another Fall & Winter Gardening Workshop this Sunday, 2 pm, 6120 Trotman Road.
Grow your best garden ever - in winter!
05/08/2024
We had a great fall & Winter garden class Sunday. Our next class is Sunday, August 11, 2pm, 6120 Trotman Road. See you there!
02/08/2024
It's going to be a great class! Are you going?
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Watch the bees and listen to the birds! #urbanfarm #urbanteachingfarm
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Pollinator workshop in proccesd
Farmer Amanda attended her second US Composting Council Conference (USCC) this week in Daytona Beach, FL. She was able to rub elbows with community composters from around the nation. There is no replacement for these wonderful learning opportunites. Amanda helped to organize a USCC volunteer event ahead of the conference at a local community garden run by Halifax Urban Ministries. During the conference Amanda; served as a session support volunteer, made countless contacts within the composting community and beyond that will help her to improve the program at Eat South; met with her USCC composting mentor, Amy Freeman Rosa from Michigan, and continued to cultuvate relationships with the amazing members of the Community Compost Coalition of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. To top it all off Amanda met with two of Eat South’s former staff who had since relocated to West Palm Beach. A special thanks to the USCC, US Council of Mayors via the City of Montgomery, Alabama Government Grants Department for financial support. We applied for and won a grant from the US Council of Mayors for Community Composting through the City of Montgomery Grants Department. With our grant we will be partnering with the area community gardens to offer workshops on vermicomposting, home scale composting and community composting. Institute for Local Self-Reliance US Composting Council City of Montgomery, Alabama Government Halifax Urban Ministries Amy Freeman @bowersschoolfarm @compostingcouncil @juneaucomposts @bennettcompost @dirtrichcompost @_compostcrew @mothercompost @ilsr_org @compostcrusader #ilsr #communitycompost #uscc #uscompostingcouncil #compost2024 #UrbanTeachingFarm #vermicompost #compost #soilhealth #organicsrecycling #alabama #agroecology
Unboxing video!!!! Make sure Seedy SUNDAY Seed Swap is on your calendar and pick up some great seeds donated by High Mowing Organic Seeds.
Thank you, True Leaf Market, for donating seeds to Seedy SUNDAY Seed Swap!
Warming up for Giving Tuesday... https://secure.givelively.org/donate/eat-south/help-us-grow-more-in-2024
Grateful for our volunteers!
Whether you've volunteered at E.A.T. South once or forty times, your time and energy keeps the farm going & the food growing. Thank you!
We are at Oktoberfest at Messiah Lutheran on Vaughn 11-5 today. Come plant a Zinnia, enjoy the beer garden and music and vendors. Family fun in the Gump
Next time you’re down at the farm, check out the improved Community Compost kiosk in the new “Table Scrap Droff Off Shed”. Find it by turning to the right when you enter the farm, it’s between the shipping container and potting shed. . We hope you consider filling out a community composter intake form. We are accepting new members. . We will be happy to give you a tour Saturday morning during Volunteer Saturday 8-10 AM. . #communitycompost #letitrot #urbanfarm #teachingfarm #compost #hotcompost #compostkiosk #getitdone
Summer fun… botanical art, Zumba with @aretha_lifestyle, compost and bunny photos. Not pictured is the super popular blueberry and lemon sorrel smoothie…. And the discovery in the gardens.
Volunteer Saturday!
We have a lot of nice weather this time of day still. Hopefully we can catch breezy evenings for a little while longer. Take a farm break and come see us. Mornings are coolest. Evenings are good too.
Little things mean a lot!
Watch our plant ID signs transform thanks to Farmer Tara. Music: Iranian lullaby sung by the artist's friend.
Herb Day!
Peaceful afternoon on the farm. Education with Chisolm and adding to the Maui style hot pile.
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