DC's Own Women Garden Cyclists Rock!!!

I LOVE these women and how they're spending their summer - on a 3-month cycling trip from Washington D.C. to Montreal and back again, with this very worthy purpose:

We’ll be visiting urban farms in big cities, but also grassroots organizations in small towns – anywhere where people are being reconnected with the food they eat. For example, we’ll be spending time at Mill Creek Farm in West Philadelphia which yields fresh, affordable produce in a malnourished, urban neighborhood. Red Hook Farm in Brooklyn is another site we will be visiting, in which youth from the surrounding neighborhood are employed to harvest organic vegetables and market the produce from the urban farm. 

Then they're bringing that wealth of information back to D.C. to make something happen HERE.  D.C. really needs these Women Garden Cyclers, I'll tell ya.

The tour started July 6 and according to their blog, the cyclers in the New York City area. Follow their route.  Or drop them a line: gardencycles[at]gmail.com.

MORE FROM THEIR BLOG

The bicycle tour investigations will be documented through audio and visual recordings that will be distributed via website and public forums, ultimately promoting the journey as a resource for academic institutions and bringing it back to use in budding grassroots initiatives in Washington DC, where we live.

MORE HIGHLIGHTS

• The cyclers visited City Farms in Baltimore and this farm in Philadelphia.
• Here's a story about them in the Philadelphia City Paper.

I hope to meet them upon their triumphant return and post about them again.

Comments

[Ed Bruske]

great story

[grace]

as part of DC School Garden Week, these fab ladies will also be doing a follow-up to their spring community garden hop - instead, hopping from one school veggie garden to another school veggie garden. this will be on Oct 20, more info soon!