DAY 2 Haley House Farm and Community Gardens!
Design any public space with confidence and in collective
Celebrate ancestral regenerative design
You may sign up for all three (preferred) or as many as you like.
LIMITED STIPENDED SPOTS ~ $100/workshop when you can attend all three. Same if you can attend 2. Currently looking to fill 3 more 3-day spots for workshop.
WHO We Are
Neighborhood Grow Plan. As part of our popular education and leadership development programming we do with young people, their families and neighbors, The Community Garden Design Workshop, is an initiative aimed at equipping youth and community members with critical thinking into design skills to create adaptable, climate-resilient gardens in partnership with community gardens and land trusts. This program will provide hands-on workshops, individual design kits, and community-driven engagement, ensuring participants develop practical skills in garden planning while fostering environmental stewardship.
This work is being funded in part by the City of Boston GrowBoston Design Fund grant.
WHAT
The purpose of this workshop is to create a formal garden design for public spaces marked for food growing. Each participant will be able to take home a small kit of the architectural tools we learn to use so they can continue practicing at home
WHEN
We are scheduled to do these workshops Sundays September 7, 14 and 28. Aiming for 11am-3pm for all three workshops with an extended celebration (open to larger community and family) 3-5pm on the last day.
WHERE
All spaces are in Roxbury: we will be studying the community garden at the Hawthorne Youth Community Center at 9 Fulda St, The Haley House Farm and The Food Project Farm at 40 Cottage St and Dudley Greenhouse.
These workshops will be a mix of outdoor study and practicing the fundamentals of landscape design and technique.
Big part of workshops will take place outdoors. Last year daytime temperatures were typically between 63-79 F in this date range. We will have outdoor fans with outdoor toilet on some days and an A/C building and indoor toilet on other days. We will have lunchbox style meal, snacks and refreshments in a cooler.
WHY
It is an important skill to be able to look at public land, and as residents and community members living and working adjacent to these land, to be able to confidently design to meet neighborhood need. The focus of this workshop is to design temporary food gardens to fill empty lots otherwise not in active community use.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR TO PARTICIPATE
Because this is a pilot, we have a few parameters to ensure the experience is solid for both participants and facilitators: We are looking for people dedicated to community housing and food access - adults who participate in housing and or food justice campaigns and young people who enjoying drawing, know how important it is to organize with neighbors and or curious about a career in design. We hope to offer iterations in future.
As English as second language learners, we are committed to language justice and ASL access. As our volunteer staff very small, we will do our best, but thinking this workshop may be easier for people who are comfortable with English.
Let us know if you need childcare.
Also check out other Workshops in Jamaica Plain, Arts events in Jamaica Plain, Fine Arts events in Jamaica Plain.
|
