For complete flier PDF file, please click the link for the outreach email flyer.

Rooting DC 2012 was a success!

Thank you for sharing your energizing feelings of friendship, creativity, inspiration, connection, love, and support to make this event possible! Here is to a great kickoff for the 2012 season!! 

The Beet Street Gardens clan at Rooting DC 2012

Come party with Beet Street Gardens, this Saturday Evening, February 11th as we celebrate the end of our 2nd season and gear up for an exciting 3rd! This midwinter gathering will feature many local flavors —  nourishment for your belly, signature drinks for your spirit, along with garden photos and live tunes from a variety of local artists.

When: 7-11pm on 2/11/12

Location: the JamJar
1719  Lamont Street NW, DC

Metro: Columbia Heights + 10 min. walk
Bus: H3, H4 Crosstown / S2, S4 16th Street
Car: advised to park on 16th street & walk west 1.5 blocks
Bike: parking plenty

Beet Street is jazzed to focus this season’s local growing/eating around building edible forest gardens and an outdoor kitchen. Your donations will help make that possible! $10-20 suggested.

Questions: email annabeth@beetstreetgardens.org

Blooming echinacea at Sasha Bruce.

See you on the 11th!

Beet Street Gardens

fb invite here

www.beetstreetgardens.org

Just a reminder for everyone who is planning on coming to Rooting DC on February 18th to sign up via our registration portal on www.rootingdc.org!

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Rooting DC 2012 Flyer

I know you all are waiting anxiously for the 5th Annual Rooting DC, which is still on its way in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime, come and celebrate the excitement with us this Thursday, February 2nd, 5 – 8 pm at The Looking Glass Lounge!

Check out the Facebook event for complete details: https://www.facebook.com/events/312966532075646/

Celebration!

Join us for some treats and good company to celebrate 5 years of Rooting DC! We will be asking for a $10 donation at the door, but this is a suggested donation, and no one will be turned away! There are also some excellent drink specials from Looking Glass Lounge: $2 off draft beers, $1 off rail drinks and special just for US a $4 Rooter Shooter!!!

Silent Auction Fundraiser!

We have some awesome prizes so please bring cash or a checkbook & come ready for bidding! Prizes include gift baskets, certificates to yummy local restaurants, and many more! All money raised from the silent auction will go directly towards offsetting the cost of the Rooting DC forum (to keep it free for all who attend!)

Hope you can make it on Thursday! If not, save the date for Rooting DC – February 18th, 2012 from 9:30-4. Registration details coming very soon!

Stay up to date with Rooting DC details on Facebook and on Twitter (Follow us @RootingDC and help spread the word with #RootingDC !!)

The NEW Montgomery County Food Council has officially launched, and is currently welcoming applications from interested individuals.  The deadline for applications is next Friday, January 13, so if you are interested don’t delay!

Click here for more information and to apply.

In case you haven’t heard, the Food Council aims to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system.

The Council will be comprised of 13 – 17 diverse stakeholders including individual members, professionals, private businesses, government officials, community organizations, and educational institutions that represent and/or work on food issues in our county.  We would particularly love to see council members who represent urban/suburban agriculture and community food production, so if you are involved in any of these, please consider applying!

The first meeting of the Council will be on Wednesday, February 15, location to be announced; all meetings will be open to the public, with community involvement encouraged.

Again, Council member applications are being accepted through next Friday, January 13.  Click here for more information and to apply.

At Busboys & Poets

14th & V Street NW.

6:30 pm

(From the Busboys and Poets website about the film):

6:30 PM (Langston Room) – Following the screening, Marsha Weiner of Food Muse Media will moderate a panel discussion with filmmaker Cintia Cabib, Alice Kamps, curator of the National Archives exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?”, and several community gardeners. // FILM SYNOPSIS: Throughout Washington, D.C., people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities are gardening side by side, growing vegetables, fruits and flowers in community gardens. Some are looking for basic sustenance, others for a way to remember their homelands, still others for a place to find a respite from their troubles. Through the voices of young people, senior citizens, immigrants, garden volunteers and educators, “A Community of Gardeners” explores the vital role of seven urban community gardens as sources of fresh, nutritious food, outdoor classrooms, places of healing, links to immigrants’ native countries, centers of social interaction, and oases of beauty and calm in inner-city neighborhoods. The film also looks back on the history of community gardens in the United States, from the potato patch farms of the late 19th century, to the victory gardens of World War II, to community gardening’s current renaissance. // FREE & OPEN TO ALL. http://communityofgardeners.com/

Vote to help us to share $65,000 from Nature’s Gate to benefit our youth education program, LEAF.

We’re up to 470 votes today and growing, but we still need your help to reach 3,500 votes to be a finalist in the national “Gardens for Good” contest to share $65,000 from Nature’s Path.  We have 3,000 subscribers on this list. So if each of you clicks today, we’ll reach 3,500 votes and be a finalist to share $65,000 in grant funding! (No Facebook or Twitter account necessary!) Our entry is listed under my name, “Helen Yuen.” Can you click on “Vote” here today with one click?

Last week, we entered a contest launched by Nature’s Path organic food company. Thank you for getting us to 470 votes. But it’s not over! We need to reach 3,500 votes to be a finalist to share $65,000. Can you keep us in the running?

Voting Takes Just a Second!

Can you click “yes” today to help us fund our farm education program for impoverished youth? This is a direct link, so you do not need Facebook or Twitter. Just click “vote” on this page.

Please don’t delay. It takes just a second to click and we can only be a finalist with your help. Voting ends next Friday September 30. Soon! Each day that passes, the gap widens between us and the top contenders.

We can’t do it without you.

The top 5 U.S. and top 5 Canadian vote-getters will be reviewed by Nature’s Path, and they will choose 3 nonprofits to split $65,000. Right now, the nonprofit in 5th place has 3,000 votes. We have 470, so if you and each subscriber on this list clicks, we’ll have nearly 3,500 votes and be a finalist. Can you click today?

Daily voting is ok until Sept 30. These are the last days so don’t forget to click once a day and spread the word to your friends!

Thank you for supporting us! 

Helen Yuen
Communications Fellow

P.S. If each of you on this subscription list clicks to vote, we’ll reach 3,500 votes and be a finalist to share $65,000 for our youth program! Click here today. Thank you for rooting for us!