Baltimore City Sprouts Project
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Baltimore City Sprouts, through initial funding from the Open Society Institute, works to create a culture of food sustainability in southwest Baltimore with an emphasis on working with kids, people in transition from jail or drug addiction, and church institutions. We foster empowerment and provide resources and education, creating gardens and establishing produce markets in an area that is consi
It is more important than ever to grow some food at home and its not too late. Here is a link to the University of Maryland Extension showing planting dates. The local stores are full of seeds, plants, and soil and I will start posting Baltimore specific information on growing food and freedom in the City we love. Be safe out there.
07/16/2018
"Agriculture is a theological act"
Food and Faith: Agriculture as a Theological Act Wendell Berry has said that eating is an agricultural act . I have alway...
Food is our most basic need. Freedom, history, and faith are all intertwined. Growing our food provides security and freedom. Understanding why we prepare our food the way we do teaches us history. Understanding a moral ethic and learning a methodology to break the bible code on terminology is what will help us feed our young and surge over policy that does not conform to judeo-christian values in regard to all issues that inhibit our ability to share a feast at the long table. Sprouts intends to build a long table, and everyone is commissioned to take it from there. Feed our hearts. Share widely. Lets put out a hand to our neighbors..
The hiatus is almost up. Keep an eye out for new activities and new ideas to make West Baltimore lush.
05/30/2014
Today an old unused and falling apart hoop house I built years ago, a rustic beauty, was taken apart and transported to Creative City Public Charter School to be used in the garden education program as an outdoor classroom and growing space. Special thanks to Jonah House in Baltimore for the generous donation of the frame which will soon be in the business of growing plants and children.
11/09/2012
After the Flood: Losing The Farm And Dancing In The Street – Ian Marvy, Founder Of The Red Hook Comm [caption id="attachment_8965" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Ian Marvy, founder and director of the Red Hook Community Farm, weathered the storm in Red Hook. The farm was completely submerged."][/caption] Long before the dawn of the rooftop farm era, there was the Added Value Red Hook Commun...
09/04/2012
Baltimore City Public Schools Green Guide A new resource, put out by Baltimore City Schools, lists different resources for greening school facilities, educating about food, and building gardens. Inside you will find Baltimore City Sprouts!...
08/24/2012
Seed Collecting from the University of Illinois Extension An excellent PDF about general seed collection. Look up your specific plant you wish to collect from to make sure you don’t have to do something plant specific like introduce a bacteria. Coll...
08/21/2012
Converting farmland to organic
08/08/2012
A garden inside the Baltimore City Detention Center | Audacious Ideas A garden inside the Baltimore City Detention Center
07/18/2012
Check out the profile on BCS in this week's City Paper!
Planting Jailhouse Seeds “I’m envisioning an alumni program,” he says. He wants former juvenile inmates to come back in and teach the kids who are locked up.
07/17/2012
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