Gardens From Garbage

Thank you, community of Great Falls and surrounding cities and town, for making the 2nd Annual FRESH! Food Forum the best yet (only the 2nd, but up is up!).  Attendees, vendors and workshop presenters came together to celebrate and strive toward creating more local sources of FRESH food.  

As a non-profit, Gardens from Garbage is focused on SOLUTIONS & ACTION.  Over 200 folks joined us Saturday morning for a great breakfast provided by Great Harvest Bread, 2J's Fresh Market, and Cafe Mam coffee ~ followed by the documentary dirt! and 5 workshops designed to teach about food safety, in-school pantries, and 360 eating (eat, compost, grow, cook, eat).  A special thank you to our sponsors:  Stockman Bank, 2J's Fresh Market, and Pacific Steel & Recycling.

If you want to borrow the movie, we have it to loan.  It's a wonderful movie to show to a school class or a family group.  Contact Captain Compost.  Watch the preview below.

What can YOU do?  Start with 1 of these:

1.  Grow something you can eat.

2.  Eat what someone has grown locally.

3.  Join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)

4.  Help a neighbor start a garden.

5.  Compost in a bucket or in your backyard.

6.  Shop at your local Farmer's Market - and ask if they GROW their own product.

7.  Join a Community Garden.

8.  Volunteer to help with a school garden or get one started at your child's school.

9.  Ask "what's locally grown ?" at your grocery store and when you go out to dinner.

10.  Join Gardens from Garbage as a member and support our projects with your volunteer hours and dollars.

11.  And my favorite - BUY A CIT LOT AND PLANT AN ORCHARD!

Here's a preview of DIRT, the Movie: