LONG BEACH GROWS
COMMUNITY GARDENS &
URBAN FARMS
Long Beach Grows Unity Farm, take 2
Dear Friends of Long Beach Grows,
Please vote once a day as often as possible through
April 21, 2014, at this link.
Long Beach Grows has served the Long Beach
Community as a resource on all things urban ag in our
city for >4 years. We are all volunteers-we receive no
salaries or stipends to do what we do.
LBGROWS began Long Beach’s first community farm
co-op, Unity Farm, to grow food together on shared
land for a shared harvest—shared among the growers
and others in the community, including homeless.
We believe the local food movement should be about food for people, not for profit. We advocate for what we think is best, growing food locally—in a manner that fosters cooperation and sharing of resources—such as we accomplished at the original Unity Farm.
We will be relocating the farm co-op and ask for your daily vote so that we might get this grant, much needed financial assistance. A Seeds of Change grant will also help with our educational mission and with ours and Long Beach’s first heirloom vegetable seed library, freely available and shared at workshops and community events.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED INTEREST AND SUPPORT OF LONG BEACH GROWS, INCLUDING YOUR DAILY VOTE IN THIS CONTEST.
To see a complete list of community gardens in Long Beach, visit this page.
Community gardening is a fun form of urban agriculture that helps grow healthy communities. Growing your own food, either at home or in a Long Beach community garden, contributes to local food security & to a healthy, sustainable, eco-friendly & animal-friendly lifestyle (be sure to add chickens & goats to your Long Beach community garden or urban farm).
Know of other vacant lots or underutilized properties in Long Beach that Long Beach Grows can transform into food-producing community gardens and urban farms? Please contact info@longbeachgrows.org.
Long Beach Grows is contributing to the City of Long Beach’s sustainability goal of establishing community gardens in every park 5 acres or larger by 2020, converting 100% of city owned vacant lots to interim or better yet permanent green uses, and creating new permanent green spaces, including community gardens and urban farms.
Community gardening is fun, it brings people together, it builds healthy communities,
it teaches you & your family about real food & sustainable agriculture,
& it allows you to feed your family of locavores locally grown real food that you can trust.
Please vote for Long Beach Grows’ Seeds of Change project to receive a 20k grant
