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Everett Community Growers (ECG) es trabajando para mejorar la salud y aumentar la participación ciudadana entre los residentes de Everett, MA al medio de la agricultura urbana y otros iniciativas de “food justice” (justicia alimentaria). Los miembros de ECG son residentes y líderes locales dedicados a la justicia alimentaria, los que están trabajando para crear espacios para crecer cultivos en la ciudad y educar la comunidad.
Hoy en día, ECG opera el jardín comunitario de Florence St, el jardín comunitario de Tremont St, y la nueva finca comunitaria de Northern Strand Community Farm (al comienzo de la pista de bicicleta). Si usted está interesado en convertirse en un miembro de ECG, solicita una parcela en uno de los jardines aquí. Todos están bienvenidos ser voluntarios en la finca comunitaria y el horario está aquí. ECG también está trabajando en abogar cambios de política para apoyar la jardinería y agricultura urbana.
Everett Community Growers (ECG) is working to improve health outcomes and increase civic engagement among Everett residents through urban agriculture and other food justice initiatives. Membership is comprised of residents and local organizational leaders committed to food justice. Everett Community Growers members work to create spaces for growing food in the city, as well as conduct workshops and other community engagement activities aimed at increasing residents’ knowledge and understanding of health equity and food justice.
ECG currently runs Florence St Community Garden, the Tremont St Community Garden, and the Northern Strand Community Farm. If you are interested in applying for a plot in one of our two community gardens, please fill out an application here. Anyone can volunteer at the Northern Strand Community Farm (check out our calendar page for volunteer days). ECG is also working on advocating for policy changes to support community gardening and urban farming.
Funding/ Los Fondos
Financiadores y socios han incluido:
Funders, sponsors, and partners have included
Past Storytelling Projects/ Proyectos Anteriores de Narración
In 2014, a group led by Kathleen O’Brien, Director of the Everett Community Health Partnership, conducted a land inventory for site suitability for urban agriculture. Kathleen’s thesis, including the land inventory, is available here. In 2017, ECG updated the land inventory to reflect new data and provided a summary report available here.
Since 2012, ECG has expanded to two additional sites, serving more than thirty families and donating fresh produce to the Bread of Life food pantry. Click on one of the story map links below to learn more about ECG’s progress in 2012-2015:
In 2015, Tufts students Nicole Smith, Claire Mance, Marbury Jacobs, and Matt Hinds collected stories at a Food Day event in Everett to create the following video:
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