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SHP Earth Day featured Sustainable Food
This year's Earth Day Extravaganza highlighted the edible school gardens as well as approaches to healthy, sustainable & local food and gardening. Attendees enjoyed fare from A Better World Cafe and fair trade coffee courtesy of White Lotus Home, and could make upside planters or take a "wild edible walking tour" around the neighborhood. To make the food/health connection, SHP partnered with the Board of Health's Vickie White Free Community Health Fair.
Seeds of Solidarity
Former HP'er Deb Habib, whose farm in Massachusetts provides a connection between students and nature, offered an evening program on March 1, 7 pm, at the HP Public Library.
Eat Locally, Feed Globally
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WELCOME BIONEERS!
Hello to our Bioneers friends (especially those in the Our World Vision workshop with Nipun Mehta, Robin Chase, and Woody Tasch)! We hope to bring what we learned at Bioneers back to our community and perhaps even ultimately have our own Bioneers event in NJ.
HP Schools to Get Gardens
Sustainable Highland Park has received a $10,000 grant to put an edible garden at each of our four schools and provide opportunities for green jobs training in agriculture for teens. Members of the EGP played a significant role and the EGP will continue to be involved in making these gardens happen.
A Defining Moment in Human History
Raised Beds Around Town
If you drive (or preferably, walk) down Montgomery St., you'll see raised beds with some tomatoes and other crops growing in them on the property of Trinity United Methodist Church. Approaching North Fifth Ave., you'll see another raised bed on the front lawn of the Highland Park Library, planted by the HP Library Green Teens. Up next, raised beds at St. Paul's.
EARTH DAY Composting Workshop
Loren Muldowny presented her coffee composting workshop and Irene Marx gave a vermicomposting workshop for kids at the Sustainable Highland Park Earth Day Extravaganza on April 22.
Worm compost image by rosepetal236, used under the Creative Commons license
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Photo of Peeling Paint on Brick by Darren Hester, used under the Creative Commons License for noncommercial purposes.