Camden Food Garden Tour
Climate resilience can begin by growing food imaginatively at home
Come see food growing in our Backyards… Walk by our Dooryard gardens…
Thursday, Sept. 12, morning and afternoon.
All Welcome. Pass on the word! Volunteer to help out!
To register and get a map and list of gardens with times specified, call 207 236-8732 or email beedyparker@gwi.net
CamdenCAN (Climate Action Now) exists to get out town talking, thinking and acting on the great changes happening to our weather, how to address the causes, and how to cope with the challenges climate change is bringing. Food production is one of these challenges, and we can help not just by supporting small farmers nearby, but by learning to produce at the most local of all places, our own gardens, yards and homes.
The tour will cover a wide range of different sizes and kinds of gardens: large and tidy rows, small and playful patches, fruit gardens, mixed flowers and vegetables, sunny and shady spots, on-street and back gardens, raised furniture beds in community housing, group cooperative and community gardens — even a hay-bale garden that has subsided into a tidy little hay mulched garden plot!
Some of these will be open in the morning. Some in the afternoon. Some all day. A rich and established forest homestead will be open for a tour on the weekend. Sign up for the details at 207 236-7414 or beedyparker@gwi.net.
Growing food is getting harder around the world. The droughts, deluges, whiplash temperatures, high winds, all are causing crop failures. Locally, regionally and world wide. Commercial and peasant farmers alike, around the world, are often struggling and even failing.
The cost of food is beginning to show the effects. If we learn to grow even small amounts of our own food, we will be able to help. But we need time to learn and achieve these skills, especially as we must adapt to the changing and less predictable weather.
Hopefully seeing what others are doing will help encourage more residents to grow local and help make Camden more climate resilient!
Plus visiting gardens and talking gardens is fun!
CamdenCAN Newsletter Summer Schedule
We’re advocates of exploration and immersion in this living world. As such, we are reducing our publishing schedule over the summer months while we seek adventures—we hope you’re also recharging in all the ways you enjoy. We’ll be back soon in full, re-energized force!
I love this! We can all grow food and beautify our communities while feeding each other. Let's plant seeds of hope in our communities for a future adapting to climate change. Would love our place to be on the tour too. :)
What a great idea! David Wallace-Wells had a frightening article in the NYT about how the global food supply chain will be disrupted by climate change. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/opinion/food-climate-crisis-prices.html
Time to learn this vital skill and trade tomatoes for turnips with our neighbors!!