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For those of you who have been following the progress of Root Riot.  Here is an update on the recent activity at the Harambee location.

 Garden Beds Are open for business

After tomorrow afternoon all of the original 28 beds should be filled with dirt and will be ready for planting.  (If you are chomping at the bit, you are welcome to go and get a shovel and complete filling your bed before hand.   Also Dean has completed setting up water and there is now a hose that can run to any bed on the lot.

Workdays on Saturday and Sunday

Dean and Kristine Nickerson have generously taken on running two workdays this weekend on Saturday and Sunday.  As Dean indicated in his email, people will be gathering at 2pm both days to continue spreading mulch and setting up the other 5 beds that are not yet complete.    In addition, funds permitting we are going to be bringing some additional soil to the location to place on top of geo textile for the students to farm in directly.

We got additional media coverage

http://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/oakpark365/2010/05/may_24_2010_-_root_riot.html

Also , in case you missed it, here is the radio show where we got interviewed about Harambee

http://www.mikenowak.net/podcasts.htm   it is in the last half hour of the program from May 15^th.

You can also click this link and listen to the last 20 minutes of the broadcast.  http://www.mikenowak.net/Growing%20in%20Austin%20Website%20Cut.mp3

In the next week or so, we expect Cassandra West’s article about us to come out on www.seedingchicago.com

Updates to the Root-Riot Website www.root-riot.com There are now all kinds of information resources up on the website.  (Thank you Louise and Sandra) We have done and are going to be doing more and more updates to the website. 

Community meeting 5/27

We had a wonderful community meeting tonight at the highschool.  There were a several people from the community who came in to join us and they were very impressed.  This included the dean of students at Douglass academy Mr. Key.  Our students fully participated in the meeting and shared how much they are looking forward to participating this summer.   We have set up a team of students including Ivory Hudson who will be developing our film series this summer.   We are planning on showing two films a month followed by open discussions .   The super cool part is that we are going to train the students to moderate the discussions!!  Shhhh.  They don’t know that yet. 

Summer Jobs Program is a GO!

We were successful in getting funding for the summer jobs program for all the root riot locations.  So far we have secured funding for students between the ages of 18 and 22.  We are working on the project for 16 and 17 year olds.   Please keep that in your prayers this week.  There are all kinds of things that we will be creating as part of the jobs program that I will be sharing with you next week.   

Seedlings!!  Now is the time to plant!

As we said earlier, we have collected all of the seedlings that were left over after the give away on Wednesday night.   Thank you to Sheila, Glen, Kristine and Dean for helping to bring them all back.  They are presently at Dean and Kristine Nickerson’s house and will be available for pick up on Saturday and Sunday.  

Doin Time!

If you have not taken the opportunity to do some of the communal work on the common aspects of the garden, please consider doing so this weekend.   Even if you not able to do any of the physical work, your presence does make a difference and you never know what new opportunities may happen as a result.  

See you out there!!

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