Come to the River Center at Lock 8 this Sunday for a “Mushroom Walk”.
Take a walk along the C&O Canal to learn about mushrooms with mushroom
enthusiast Buddy Kilpatrick. Buddy has been studying, picking, and
eating wild edible mushrooms and fungi for more than 20 years.
Admission is FREE!

Date: Sunday, October 3
Time: 9 – 10:30 am
Location: River Center at Lock 8
7906 Riverside Dr.
Cabin John, MD

For more information and directions, visit
http://www.potomac.org/site/river-center-events/index.php, or contact
Deanna Tricarico at tricarico@potomac.org.

Next Sunday October 10^th, Bread for the City is where it’s all going down. So what does 10/10 look like at DC’s premiere food bank and urban garden? To start with, Roadside Organics and Hip Hop Caucus are hosting a Green the Block Local Food Block Party event from 12-4:30. Featuring music, cooking demonstrations, and a general atmosphere of fun, the event will help fund Bread for the City’s green roof project.

Immediately following the block party, Live Green and A Well-Fed World are hosting a massive, veg friendly potluck. The potluck will include local, sustainable food, great speakers, and information about local environmental organizations. They are currently seeking volunteers to help set up before to the event, bring veg friendly food for the potluck, and tidy up afterwards (We hear you get first dibs on leftovers if you help!). RSVP on Facebook with what you’re bringing.

Both parties are in celebration of 350.org’s Global Work Party Day. On 10/10 citizens all over the world will take to the streets to plant trees, install solar panels, anything and everything to green their communities and spread the word about climate change! So dig out your work clothes and favorite vegan recipes and come spend the day at Bread for the City!

Common Good City Farm:

1. We have a Facebook page now!  If you’re on Facebook, become a fan to get the latest updates about workshops, events, and things that are growing on on the farm.  Invite your friends too!
2. Our annual urban gardening course is coming up soon!  Cultivating Community with Urban Gardens will be held Oct. 15-17, 2010.  Spend a weekend learning the basics of urban food gardening, annual and perennial garden design and gardening with your community.  Learn how to winterize an existing garden and prepare an area now for a new garden in the spring.  Discussion on basic theories of how to design with nature will be mixed with hands-on activities.  Hosted by Common Good City Farm with instructors Liz Falk, founder and former Director, and Steve Gabriel, teacher and Lead Designer, Work With Nature.  Course fee: $200. Scholarship applications available by emailing Info@commongoodcityfarm.org.  More information and course outline at Common Good’s events page.

Volunteer on an Urban Farm

There is no better way to learn the ins and outs of production-scale urban farming than volunteer at the Engaged Community Offshoots’ Edmonston Urban Farm.  You’ll be composting and vermicomposting, planting and harvesting in our vertical farm, and preparing vegetables for sale at local markets and restaurants.  Come by any Monday or Thursday from 8am to noon, or Saturday from 9am to 3pm.  More information is at http://www.ecoffshoots.org/projects-2/volunteer-with-us/

Wednesday September 8: Rooting DC Urban Gardening Forum & Mount Rainier Bicycle Co-op present….a Ukulele Benefit Concert!