Join City Blossoms this weekend to celebrate! We have a lot of people and gardens to be thankful for, so we want to enjoy them with community through our first BULB BASH!  The Bulb Bashes are days to plant bulbs, enjoy a community potluck, harvest in the gardens, play bulb games, compete in bulb dancing, make bulb-inspired recipes and get some bulbtastic temporary tattoos and face painting. We can’t wait to have a bunch of bulbtastic fun!  Please RSVP if you plan on coming and bringing some potluck dishes.

Join us:

Sunday, November 7 12:00-3:00

Girard Children’s Community Garden (near 1480 Girard St NW)

RSVP to Mia mia@cityblossoms.org

In addition to celebrating, we still have work to be done! Join us tomorrow at 10:00 t0 help get Girard Garden ready for winter!

Thanks to super volunteer John Kinhart for making DC Field to Fork’s latest how-to video and Neil Zimmerman for teaching us how to make sauerkraut!

Hi Folks,

My friend Aaron and I are about to embark on a 100-day cross-country bike trip across America, where we’ll capture the stories of local food through potlucks, and share them in rich media (photo/video/audio) on our website, bikeloc.org.

We’re currently competing for a $5,000 grant which is crucial to making our trip happen, and need as many votes as we can get today to secure our position in the top 10 (top 10 projects receive funding). Today is the last day of voting.

We’re currently in 6th, but rapidly dropped to 9th last night, so we know we’re not guaranteed a position in the top 10. Please, if you have a few seconds to spare today, vote for us and spread the word to as many friends as you can. It only takes a couple of clicks, and will mean a lot for our project and local food!

Today is your last chance: refresheverything.com/bikeloc

Note: Make sure to click “vote” again after you’ve signed in, otherwise your vote will not count.

In food,

Robert DuBois
http://bikeloc.org http://twitter.com/bikeloc http://facebook.com/bikeloc

We at the Neighborhood Farm Initiative don’t even like cars. We’d almost always rather be walking or biking. We’d definitely rather be dancing.

Here’s the thing: in order to make our fledgling farm work, we need a truck: to haul compost, bring produce to market, and lug plants all over town. We’re raising money to buy one, and to do it, we’re going to do something we’re into: dance.

Join us for NFI’s Barn Dance Fundraiser

Saturday, March 27, 2010

7:30pm: Potluck dinner & Silent Auction

8pm: Dance! squares, contras, circles, & waltzes

Live music by local old-time musicians!

$15 suggested donation

St Stephen’s Church

1525 Newton Street NW * Washington, DC 20010

We’re looking for volunteers to help out with the event: greeting people, cleaning up, and making the event go smoothly.

NFI is also seeking prizes for our silent auction, especially creative ones – a guitar lesson, a bike tuneup, a pan of baked goods, some jewelry you made, a painting – whatever you’re good at!

Email neighborhoodfarm@gmail.com to volunteer.