Here are projects GROW is currently working on or has plans to work on.
Project Category | Description and Goals for 2014 |
Adult Job Skills & Experience | Includes incubating entrepreneurial opportunities. 2014 goals to be determined. |
Annual Fall Harvest Celebration | Provide a fall harvest celebration event in Oct. 2014. |
Business Beautify & Landscape | Implement a volunteer program to help maintain existing business street planters. Add planters at the Bessie Coleman Library. |
Community Gardens Network | Help locate resources to sustain the existing community gardens (currently fourteen). At end of year, report on 2014 GROW impact. Promote community gardener participation in GROW projects. |
Gardening Workshops | Provide three or more gardening workshops in 2014. |
GROW-A-Lot | Assist three or more new vacant lot project initiatives in 2014. |
Healthy Eating | 2014 goals to be determined. Healthy eating for youths will be integrated with School & Youth projects. |
Monthly Meetings | Conduct a GROW monthly meeting every month except Dec. in 2014. |
Outdoor Art | 2014 goals to be determined. |
Plant and Seed Swaps | Hold one or more spring and fall plant swap event in Woodlawn. |
Residential – Beautify & Landscape | Assist three or more block clubs in their effort to green and beautify their parkways, etc. More info… |
Schools & Youth | Support implementation of school and youth programs involving growing food, and Woodlawn greening and beautification. Locations to be determined. Possibilities include: Hyde Park Academy, Woodlawn Community School, Emmet Till School, AG High School/Woodlawn partnership. |
Share Resources | Share volunteer and other resources. This is what GROW does! We will keep a list of workdays, locations and projects where we helped to match resources with needs. Includes implementing a Community Service Volunteer Exchange in 2014. More info… |
Shop together, group discounts | In 2014, hold a Vegetable Garden Starter Plant Group Buy. Investigate other opportunities to obtain discounts at local businesses. |
Woodlawn Virtual Conservatory | This project will help to provide for a great diversity of annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees in Woodlawn. 2014 goals to be determined. |
Yard Gardener Network | Provide resources to yard gardeners. Promote yard gardener involvement in GROW monthly meetings, Gardening Workshops and block gardening activities. |