Earth Week, Day One - "Food and Gardens" Theme!

Earth Week, Day One - "Food and Gardens" Theme!04/16/2012

 

Melinda has been working hard with the Sustainability Council on campus at Cabrillo community college. She has taken on the Secretary position with them and they love her dedication, leadership, hard work, and beautiful newsletters. It’s also allowed us to link up with a like-minded group in the area, which is wonderful.

For a while now they have been planning for the Earth Week, from Monday April 16 until Friday April 20th. Each day has a different theme that the campus will be focusing on (click here for more info).D.r.e.e.m. Reality has jumped on board to have a booth on Monday (food and garden theme) and Thursday (water awareness theme). 

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Well today is Monday and we had a truly fabulous booth day! We woke up early to make sure we had all that we needed to make an attractive and fun booth. Bringing our pop-up canopy and fold out table (thanks to Director, Ashley C), our speakers for music, our library of excellent books, newsletter sign up sheet, decorations and incense, our Dreem Banner (you may recognize from DreemKitchen 2011), and of course our awesome tri-fold poster about DreemGardens.

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With the Sustainability Council rocking a bike powered blender across the way, loaned by Power People, to make organic smoothies - the setting was perfect. Sunshine, fun music, and the radical students of Santa Cruz made for a great showing. We got about 30 people signed up to either volunteer or develop their own DreemGarden. There was so much support about the idea of the collective - sharing work, tools, food, and education together as a community - that I even got a high five and “Thank You” for it! 

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So many people were enthusiastic about the idea, and the poster board was a great way to show what’s been happening. We had pictures from our “Diggin’ In”, Eric’s “Fox Garden”, Hetty’s “Rock Island Farm”, and of course the original “G is for Garden” by Amanda. We listed our goals:

Immediate:

• Teams of volunteers to help start home gardens and projects
• Establish a Tool Library
• Host workshops at the garden parties
• Share food throughout the collective!

Near Future:

• Start a community garden and education center
• Establish DreemKitchen at the farmers market with food abundance, also host educational opportunities
• “Fam-chise” DreemGardens in other locations, giving start up advice and fulfilling wishlists

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Anyway, it was such a wonderful event that we have decided to go again tomorrow too in order to grab the Tuesday students. Then we’ll again show up on Thursday for Water Awareness day, to premier our DreemTV: “Water Awareness...Down the Drain” video! (More about DreemTV here)

To find out more about what DreemGardens is blossoming into, click here.

Comments

Amanda

04/17/2012 00:20

way to spread the green word ladies! you motivated me via the web, i can only imagine the impact you had on those who visited your booth! garden time!!

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Chunglink

04/26/2012 14:30

Hello my beautiful friends!
I am so happy to see the dreem come to reality and I would LOVE to be a part of it! Of course I couldn't be there physically at the moment, but when I get back to the States, I would very much like to come join he Dreem Community! I am so willing to learn the magic of earthly work and contribute whatever I can for the community!
I send my hearty love to you all and hope very much to see you very soon!
LOVE you all!!
Chung