Garden Adventures with the Indiana State Museum & Growing Places Indy

Slow Food & Garden Adventures

Put on your garden gloves and get your green thumbs ready! Join Growing Places Indy in the Wishard Slow Food Garden and discover the ins and outs of growing your own Victory Garden. Work alongside experts and let your knowledge blossom as you plant, care and harvest the crops in the Wishard Slow Food Garden. Also learn about local food systems, where the produce from the Wishard Slow Food Garden goes, and how you can be involved in a bigger movement.

Wednesdays
June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
July 6, 13, 20, 27
August 10, 24

Session 1: 10:30 – 11:15
Session 2: 11:30 – 12:15

$5.00 per person per session
To make a reservation call the Indiana State Museum at (317) 232-1637

Garden Adventures with the Indiana State Museum & Growing Places Indy

Slow Food & Garden Adventures

Put on your garden gloves and get your green thumbs ready! Join Growing Places Indy in the Wishard Slow Food Garden and discover the ins and outs of growing your own Victory Garden. Work alongside experts and let your knowledge blossom as you plant, care and harvest the crops in the Wishard Slow Food Garden. Also learn about local food systems, where the produce from the Wishard Slow Food Garden goes, and how you can be involved in a bigger movement.

Wednesdays
June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
July 6, 13, 20, 27
August 10, 24

Session 1: 10:30 – 11:15
Session 2: 11:30 – 12:15

$5.00 per person per session
To make a reservation call the Indiana State Museum at (317) 232-1637

Greening the Statehouse Policy Forum

You Are Invited To attend Hoosier Environmental Council's 3rd Annual Greening the Statehouse Policy Forum When: Saturday November 6, 2010, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. Where: IU School of Law: 530 W. New York Str, Indianapolis Register Today!

[Pecha Kucha Indy] Have a great idea about food? We have $5k.

Friday November 12, 2010 8PM
@ the Athenaeum Buy Tickets http://pkindy11.eventbrite.com/

You like food.
You have an idea.
We have $5,000. Let's talk.

Email your idea to submissions@pkindy.org in the form of 500 words that are a description of your project highlighting your vision to benefit your community in Indiana using food, how the project will be executed, and the impact it will have. You have until Sunday October 24th 11:59pm.

Or instead you can watch on Friday November 12th. And decide. $10 gets you entry and a vote as to who wins. Maybe you should buy some tickets http://pkindy11.eventbrite.com.

(Thanks: Indiana Humanities Council, Central Indiana Community Foundation, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Big Car and Method Architecture.)

An Evening with Visionaries ENERGY, DESIGN, and the FUTURE of INDIANAPOLIS

Food For Thought Farm Tour

In partnership with Spirit & Place 2010 - Food For Thought, you are invited to join Big City Farms farmers, Matthew Jose and Tyler Henderson, and Growing Places Indy partner Laura Henderson for a farm tour and picnic on Friday, Oct. 1 @ 5:30 p.m - 7 p.m. (Early enough to enjoy First Friday galleries & events as well!)

Meet at the Cottage Home Community Green Space on the south-west corner of St. Clair St. and Highland Ave. (~700 block of N. Highland Ave.) We'll take a walking tour of Big City Farms, and then return to the CH Community Green Space for a picnic* and conversation. Learn about the Big City Farms and Growing Places Indy partnership, our vision for urban farming in Indy, and our upcoming trip to Turin, Italy as Slow Food USA delegates to the Slow Food International Terra Madre conference. We'll share why we are excited to be delegates, and we'd love to hear what you hope we'll bring home from our experience!

Big City Farms and Growing Places Indy will provide iced tea, water and beer. Please bring your favorite picnic, including blanket/chair, food, dining ware, etc. Also, be prepared to walk about 1 mile!

This event is free but will be limited to the first 30 people to sign-up. Email laura@growingplacesindy.org to make a reservation. Families are welcome. Be prepared for walking and remember your picnic essentials and accessories!

Terra Madre 2010

Growing Places Indy's founding directors, Laura Henderson and Matthew Jose, have the great honor of being selected as official delegates to the Slow Food International 2010 Terra Madre Conference in Turino, Italy. Along with Todd and Kathleen Jameson of Balanced Harvest Farm and Slow Food Indy, and Tyler Henderson of Big City Farms and Slow Food Indy, Laura and Matthew will represent Indianapolis as part of the Slow Food USA delegation.

Terra Madre is an international conference, held every two years, that gathers sustainable food producers, farmers, cooks, educators and activists from around the world to connect and share their stories and traditions, as well as their innovative solutions for keeping small-scale agriculture and sustainable food production alive and well. Delegates come from over 150 countries. You can watch a video from Terra Madre 2008 and view the 2010 pamphlet here.

We take our role as delegates seriously, and we are honored for the opportunity to represent the many efforts around sustainable farming and food production growing in the Indianapolis area. We look forward to bringing back our experiences from Terra Madre to share with you and further nurture our collective sustainable food movement.