Get in Touch with the Earth Through Sustainable Gardening!

How we farm and eat is one of the greatest contributors to climate change. It can also be one of the greatest solutions by encouraging and supporting more sustainable, organic local farms! Join us on 10/10/10 as we gather in areas around Raleigh, Wendell, Chapel Hill, Louisburg, and Hillsborough as part of 350.org's Global Work Party. We'll be working in the fields of six local farms, gardens, or community garden.

Please consider carpooling with friends. Work at the farms and gardens will include such things as seeding cover crops, weeding, harvesting, and cleaning the hen house. The afternoon begins at 1:00 pm with a local foods potluck. Please be sure to wear work clothes and comfortable work shoes. Don't forget to bring work gloves, a local dish of food to share, your own plate and silverware and water or beverage of choice. We want to make sure that all we leave behind at the farm is work so please do not bring disposable items. Whatever you bring with you must leave with you. After folks have fueled up from yummy local food we will get to work until 4:00 pm.

After sending your RSVP on this site, please go to the NC Conservation Network site http://www.ncconservationnetwork.org/10_10_10 for more information and to register for a particular farm. Thanks to those of you who have already signed up!

Pledge to eat 10 percent of your existing food dollars on foods produced in North Carolina with the Center for Environmental Farm Systems 10% Campaign at www.nc10percent.com!

Check out this video about the connection between climate change and our food system.
http://www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc/topics/climate-change-a-the-food-...

And here's a positive video from an 11-year-old speaking at a Tedx conference in Asheville, talking about local, organic farming. Yeah!
http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-09-24-11-year-old-schools-us