Monday, February 3, 2014

Mission Statement Ideas and thoughts

“Baybrook: Filbert Street Community Garden” is a community collaboration to help raise money and awareness of the garden to provide the community support for the garden to remain open and allow for the community as well as students from the nearby school to have opportunity have an outdoor classroom, experience growing vegetables and have a small place to explore nature within their own community.


All profits will be donated to the sustainability of the Filbert Street Community Garden.

To help Filbert Street Community Garden to be self-staining and remain open for the community of the Curtis Bay our project must include various fundraising.  I feel as though one of the challenges of the fundraising is including the community with the fundraising. Providing opportunity for the community to participate in the raising of funds for their community garden will continue to provide ownership opportunities for the community. As I visited the Filbert Street Garden I truly realized how much money was going to be needed to provide staffing to allow the garden to be unlocked and open for community use.  I visited the garden on a Saturday, February 1st the garden was locked and not accessible to the community. There is a middle school in walking distance of the garden this could provide us a community foundation that could provide support and provide continuous collaboration for the garden. Having the middle school students design the T-shirt could be away to involve the community. I envision my contribution to this project by helping wherever needed. I could bring my background of early childhood education to collaborate with the neighborhood school to create programs and outdoors curriculum lessons that could increase use of the garden to continue to educate the students and provide a true ownership of the garden with the community.  

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