The Seattle Team [Eric Beckman, Kris Axell, Bill Patterson, Meredith Rae, Eileen Suico, Christine Horvath, Nerissa Ong, and James Melillo] were able to make it out yesterday and had the most perfect warm weather to get some urban farming done at Alleycat Acres.
The team volunteered 2 hours of their time at one of the farming site right down the street from the Seattle office. Alleycat exists to (re) connect people, place and produce through building a network of community run farms. Their key is to create healthy communities. It is for people to get involved and volunteer and take home some produce, anything leftover in the week is given to the food banks.
It is a non-profit company that seeks out private landowners who are interested in donating a plot of land to be used for greater community involvement to run a community farm. Each site has a farm manager that hosts work parties every week with volunteers that come and do various projects and farming around the farm.
Yesterday[June 30, 2014], the 8 members went out and did some sheet mulching, weeding and planting under the hot sun. [See photos of the team in action]
For additional information about Alleycat Acres, please visit their website: http://www.alleycat-acres.org/ [By Christine Horvath]
