Greetings to all! So much has been accomplished, it is astonishing to recognize this is just the 4th meeting! From tiny acorns...mighty oaks, yes? Yes!! Penciled on the Wednesday agenda: · Update on the Salvation Army’s remarkable progress since deciding to build a garden. · The Downtown Project Community Gardens Program update · Arts and Gardens · FoodHub of Clark County · Inclusion! · Next steps What: Community Garden Steering Committee When: August 14th at 2 pm Where: Cooperative Extension 8050 Paradise Road Suite 100 Las Vegas, NV 89123 Last month: The Executive Director of Green Chips, Rick Van Diepen, presented on their upcoming web portal. For those that have not met the fabulous Rick or know of the organization: Green Chips is a unique public/private partnership to encourage environmental sustainability initiatives in Southern Nevada. In response to the needs of the global environment, Green Chips is helping local residents and businesses take real steps to reduce environmental impacts. The Mission of Green Chips is to strengthen and accelerate sustainable community initiatives in Southern Nevada through the creation of strategic public-private partnerships committed to open collaboration and broad based community engagement. The Toolbox Group has made amazing strides in developing the “how to grow a garden” checklist (people, water, resources, regulations, sustainability....) that is based on experience in developing gardens and deep understanding of the rules and regulation and from lessons learned by building! This will be an invaluable resource for future gardens, gardeners, and our community. It will be housed on the Cooperative Extension web page...stay tuned. Presentations from past meetings found at: cdsn.org/ (click Projects, then Community Gardens). --------- For the rest of the year all the meetings will be at 2pm on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, so easy to calendar and so easy to remember! · August 14 · Sept 11 · Oct 9 · Nov 13 · Dec – No meeting, Happy Holidays! · Jan 8, 2014 See you there! Best regards, Ken MacDonald PS: As always, thanks to University of Nevada Cooperative Extension for graciously hosting the meetings and to Ms. Elaine Fagine, Community Gardens Program Coordinator, for arranging the meeting space. km
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