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HomeMy WebLinkAboutM-87-0267CITY OF MIAMI. FLORIDA INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM To. Cesar Odio DATE: March 3,1987 Met City Manager SUBJECT: Agenda Item FROW Xavier L. Suarez "`FE"`ACC°` 30387/XLS/MML ENCLOSURCs: Please place on the agenda for the next regularly scheduled Commission Meeting on March 13th. 1987, a personal appearance by Mr. Rick Walsh representing the Food Gardens Project. XLS/MML/lg R _' 53 A PROPOSAL I Dade Community Gardens Project II Submitted by: End World Hunger, Inc. •- a non-profit corporation 1460 W McNab Road Fort Lauderdale, Fl. 33309 (305) 977-9700 Diane Silverman, Executive Director VLA t &' III _Description of Project A. Dade Community Gardens Project, a division of End World Hunger. Inc., jointly funded by local government, corp- orations, and private citizens to promote, organize, develop and support community gardening in every area of Dade County where hunger affects over 10% of the popula- tion. The project willsecure publicly owned vacant land and land inside Metro/Dade HUD projects. enroll grardeners; provide maturials and training to etitablisli 1000 garcioo plots in the year June'87 - June'88. Gardens will be located as close to the gardeners' resi- dences as possible. Each plot will be framed with land- scape timbers designed to beautify the neighborhood. Also included in the program are fruit tree and coconut palm seedlings for each garden club. Assistance will be provided for garden clubs that wish to go further in beautifying its area with landscape projects. Each garden can provide nutritious vegetables for 5 people year after year. In addition to helping eople help themselves to solve their hunger problem, community gardens clean up vacant lots, promote self reliance and self esteem, bring people together, create community spirit, and re- duce crime. In order to have 500 gardeners ready to plant in Sept. 1987 (the begining of the So. Florida growing season) organiza- tional work must begin in February, several months before OCED funding occurs. End World Hunger, Inc. has undertaken the position of organizer and developer of the community project, at no cost to Metro/Dade OCED until June 1987. From June,the Dade Community Gardens Project will have a separate bank account entitled''End World Hunger/Dade Community Garden Project," and a complete set of books including all receipts and disbursements which will be audited annually. This project will be supporte{by Dade County for Dade County and is intended to draw thousands of people into action of ending hunger through acting locally to support self sufficiency of individuals and the community. To produce effective long-term results this project requires a dedicated staff and volunteer base committed to empowering the gardeners with a hand not a hand out. Gardeners will be supported with newsletters, bulletins, and meetings during the year. On site visits of the gardens by trained agricultural agents will. handle technical pro- blems and advise on a regular basis. The program will solicit volunteers from the Dade County Master Gardeners Program (State Agricultural Extension Service), Presidents of esta- blished garden clubs, 4 H Clubs, Civic Organizations, all interested individuals and people engaged in horticul.tiiral ly related businesses. It will also employ and train at least 4 para-professionals from low income neighborhoods for staff positions to support the gardeners and enrollnew gardeners into the program. The program will be documented with video and photographs from the beginning. There is a plan to encourage wide media coverage and to market community gardening in a way that will draw the entire county into action of creating A Dade Without Hunger. We wi I 1 consider the program it major success, if by tho vied Of May 1988, a greater demand exist., rur rOmmunily )�ardvn plots than could be filled in thefirst year and a majurily of the original gardens elect to replant. B. Timetable 1987 to June 1988 1. Feb., March (activities conducted as programof EWH Service) a. Meet with potential gardeners and identify 50 people in each of 10 low income communities who wunt lu have garden plots. The targeted areas with over 10% hunger are: Opa Locka, Liberty City, West Little River, Melrose, Model City, Goulds, Homestead, Florida City, Perrine, So. Miami, and Coconut Grove. b. Develop Dade Advisory Committee c. Fund raising 2. April (an EWH Program Service) a. Enroll gardeners into Dade Community Garden Project b. Organize gardeners into clubs with by laws and officers c. Set dates for garder training sessions d. Begin garden site selections for 500 plots e. Complete fund raising f. Develop volunteer base 3. May (an EWH Program Service) a. Gardener training sessions b. Complete garden site selection c. Develop volunteer base 4. June a. Secure office space, hire staff, b. Staff training c. Begin preparation of 4'x 16' timber frames for individual garden plots s3 -3 NI d. Begin placement of 500 timber frames at garden sites using staff and volunteers e. Begin filling frames with top soil using gardeners, staff and volunteers 5. July a. Continue gardner training sessions b. Continue placement and filling of timber frames at garden site 6. August a. As July b. As July c. Notify gardners of their community garden planting days d. Begin enrolling 250 new gardeners for Dec. planting 7. September and October a. 750 Gardners plant on pre-set 'gardening days" under supervision of staff and volunteers b. Begin training new December gardeners 8. November a. Gardeners cultivate and harvest b. Staff and volunteers construct, set and fill 250 timber frames for new December gardneners 9. December a. Gardeners cultivate and harvest plots planted in Sept. and Oct. b. 250 new gardeners plant plots on pre-set "gardening days" c. 500 'old" gardeners re -plant plots d. Begin enrolling and training 250 March'88 gardeners 10. January '88 a. Gardens cultivate and harvest b. Staff and volunteers construct, set, and fill 250 timber frames for new March'88 gardens c. Complete enrolling 250 new gardeners for March 11. February '88 a. Gardeners cultivate and harvest plots planted in Dec. b. Trainig sessions for new March '88 gardeners c. Notify gardeners of March pre-set "gardening days" d. Complete placement and filling of 250 frames for March planting 12. March '88 a. 1000 plots planted 13. April a. plots cultivated and harvested b. Elections of Community Club Garden leaders for 1988-89 season c. survey which gardeners elect to stay in project for next season d. Enroll new gardeners into program for Sept. planting 14. May a. All plots harvested b. Those who want to garden over the summer will be instructed as to summer crops for sun and heat resistance c. Assess program and determine next step 53 -y It C. Amount of Funds Requested $150,000.00 OCED 20% of total 1. From oCP:D/CDBC $ !0 , 000.00 I rum I:n�l Wu r I d Ilmi�,u r 3. Frum Corporations, Foundations and private citizens 60,000.00 4. From City of Miami 101000.00 COMMUNITY GARDENS ACROSS AMERICA • Los Angeles, California 15 crippled children grow food in bed gar dens raised to table height.. . • • Greenville, South Carolina on an 2 elderly people are growing vegetables 85 by 68 foot plot that feeds 40 people, 5 days a week for 5 months... • Cincinnati, Ohio yew and A church garden with 37 volunteers, g donated 5000 lbs. of produce to a local soup kitchen... • Philadelphia, PpnnsyWnia Grammar school children grow vegetables in a greenhouse on a roof top... • Niles, Michigan As part of their sentence. convicts are growing food for the elderly.. . • Atlanta, Georgia Mental patients grow 1300 worth of vegetables each season... • Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 200 community gardens in a slum have unified the neighborhood and feed over 200 poor families... • Washington, D.C. "These projects (Food Gardens) make our city a better city in which to live" ... Mayor Mann Berry ... WHY NOT YOUR CITY ! JOIN us • If you area corporation, business or an individual, we invite you to become active and get involved by. • Starting an employee payroll deduction dub. For the cost of a candy bar each week your empk>yees can have the satisfaction of making a lasting contribution to ending hunger in your community. Participants see the results first hand, that their contributions make a differencel • Displaying the new End World Hunger coin canisters at your place of business. ' Funding specific projects. tN Other End World Hunger Projects • The Hunger Project, San Francisco, CA • Peace Corps, Sri Lanka • Results A political hunger lobby group, Washington, DC • Community Food Gardens, Washing- ton/Baltimore, Los Angeles, New Orleans, W. Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami CORPORATE PROGRAM INFORMATION Diane Silverman, Executive Director END WORLD HUNGER, INC. 1460 McNab Road Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33309 1305) 977-9700 END WORLD G ,INC. NOW The time has come to end hunger in America GIVING A HAND -NOT A "AND Our 87-26"i't' i ENDING HUNGE� UG EH CATION & COMMUNITY INVOWWIM '1`VT B� IxwnlEaoN t wee twE �+ESDENm. elol." 1917 TENNIS FESTNAI * 1978 TENNIS FFSTNAL It * 1979 TURKEY TROT* I9@j TENNIS Ff STTvAL R * 1981 ROYAL PALM POLO* 1981 PRESIDENTIAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT* 1981 TENN , FE`,ttvnl At * 1981 THE � PEMAL Vlf * ISBS BQEaIETfiflf Tea'a W—VTSTARS µ kk ENDING HUNGER STEP BY STEP* 1982 TENNIS FESTIVAL v * 198I SK RRTARS%AU(TO END HUNGER * 1983 TENNS FESTIVAL W * 1984 ENDING HUNGER BRIEFING', * �'Ma tT!AMARS WALK TT D"G M�*R * 198�'EEt FRO,AM * 1%IS CORPORATIONS MAKING A DIFFERENCE CAMPAIGN FMAT IS THE PROBLEM? S MILLION PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE HUNGRY AND MLNOURISHED—AND YES —STARVING! People just like you or ones you once knew, the elderly, working poor, unemployed, middle class workers and single women supporting their children. Hunger breeds the conditions for anemia, rickets, visual disorders and mental retardation. Children in Appalachia, infants on Indian reser- vations, black and white children in urban and rural areas are malnourished and starving. 7• • • • End World Hunger, Inc. was founded in 1981 as a non-profit charitable corporation. The money raised goes toward ending hunger through education and community involvement. • We do not normally give money or food directly to hungry people. We do give a hand ... by financially assisting the hungry via long term solutions to help themselves. OUR NEW DIRECTION • End World Hunger, Inc. has establishedmajor or campaign to have community food gardens be a focus for ending hunger in America. Now, your contributions will directly be utilized to establish food gardens in your community and wherever people are hungry. Become a partner and join us, in our vision to promote self sufficiency and alleviate hunger. WHY FOOD GARDENS? Food Garden in Ft. Lauderdale • in 1983, we funded the Oasis Urban Food Gardens in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. That Commit- ment produced dramatic results in feeding people and revitalizing an entire, formerly blighted neighborhood. That success story has been duplicated in other parts of the U.S.A. and convinced us to focus on food gardens for our ending hunger in America campaign. COMMUNITY GARDENING improves the quality of everyone's life by: • Feeding the hungry of your community • Revitalizing blighted neighborhoods • Promoting self reliance * Building self esteem • Bringing people together TEAMWORK AND PARTNERSHIP • The efforts of groups such as End World Hunger, support community leaders in obtaining and utilizing vacant land for neighborhood gardens. Then the homeless and the hungry are brought together to work the land to grow their own faits and vegetables. Thousands of community gardens are sprouting all across America. They are directly supported by private industry, concerned citizens, garden clubs and schools and religious organizations, with assistance from federal, state, county and municipal government. • End World Hunger, Inc. invites your financial partnership. Your contributions can assist the hungry in America to participate in solving their own problem. GIVING A HAND — NOT A HAND OUT Food Carden in Haftiore END WORLD Letter to Our Friends, 1480 West McNab Road IN • Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 (305)977.9700 January 1987 Our lon>z term goal is to build a system for the poor in America -to help lift themselves from being victims of hunger to being self sufficient in providing food for themselves. Therefore our focus begins where the voor reovle live. It strengthens and supports existing neighborhood tenant groups to utilize vacant land in their own communities to Brow food, beautify their surroundings, and create decent living conditions that foster self respect and self reliance. In 1986 EWH began a study of Community Food Garde_n_i_n-_in America to determine its effectiveness as an avvroach to ending hunger-thro—ug-K—self sufficiency. Research showed that hundreds of cities had community gardens that were developed by private non-profit groups, but none had been established for the distinct purpose of ending hunger, and most shared common problems of inability to secure land for long term use; insufficient funding; and lack of public aware- ness and support of their project. It appeared that a system was required to develop and sustair>_ gardens for ending hunger within a city that would start with a commitment from the city to support a multi -group effort between government, neighborhood groups, and private and cor- porate funding sources. We decided to create such a system and call it FOCUS. The initial studies and program development for FOCUS have been done by EWH with funding from a small group of individuals and by Budget Rent A Car and its employees in seven locations. This program will become truly effective in 1987 as it takes the next step w6ich will include support from the entire community for funding and expansion. ' Here are some of the ways EWH will be involved in this important next step of "System Building": In Dade County, Florida 7. EWH is working closely with the Metro/Dade Director _f. Community and Economic Development on a 2lan that will include community gardens as an integral part of commu- nity rehabilitation and a natural feature of everx low - ENDING HUNGER THROUGH EDUCATION & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 1977 TENNIS FESTIVAL * 1978 TENNIS FESTIVAL u * 1979 TURKEY TROT * 1960 TENNIS FESTIVAL III * 1981 ROYAL PALM POLO * 1981 PRESIDENTIAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT 1981 TENNIS FESTIVAL IV * 1981 THE TRANSAMERICA BIKE MARATHON * 1982 THE PRESIDENTIAL BOOK * 1992 SPORTSTARS WALK ENDING HUNGER STEP-BY-STEP 1982 TENNIS FESTIVAL V * 1983 SPORTSTARS WALK TO END HUNGER * 1983 TENNIS FESTIVAL V1 * 1984 ENDING HUNGER BRIEFINGS -��w' 1904 SPORTSTARS WALK ENDING HUNGER * 1984 TENNIS FESTIVAL VII 8-r 'r. income community for the purposeof ending hunger,. Starting witha conference workshop in January that will bring together county and city officials, community development corporations, private non-profit groups, and concerned citizens a network of existing vacant lots will be identified and targeted for the establishment of 1000 community garden plots for 1987. Those plots will provide food for over 5000 people and will be the base for a three to five year plan for a comprehensive county wide system of gardens. - Covenant Gardens EWH will continue to support -the -Urban League of Greater Miami to expand the gardens we founded in 1986, in Liberty City, in the first of eight housing projects they own and/or manage. - Rainbow Village Gardens EWH is working with the Metro/ Dade Housing Authority to establish the first HUD commu - nity garden in the Overtown area of Miami. Joining us with technical assistance is the Florida State Agricultural Extension Office and private volunteers known as Master Gardeners. Land will be provided by the City with EWH providing the funds to plant the gardens. The area has 275 families who will have an opportunity to participate- - Dade Community Garden Association With major input from EWH this organization is being formed to provide technical assistance and on going supervision_ for garden projects in the county. This organization has developed by-laws and standards for community gardens to insure maximum product- ion and continued self sufficiency. Another function is to develop, maintain, and utilize a large volunteer base to assist at garden projects. In Broward County, Florida EWH has funded the establishment of 250 garden plots in_ . five NW Fort Lauderdale housing projects maintained by The Fort Lauderdale Housing Authority. These gardens are an important part of the Oasis Program that has turned blighted communities into beautiful neighborhoods that support decent family life by focusing on positive self help programs and they are providing food for over 1000 people each year_. By enlarging on the Oasis suc- cess EWH intends to encourage a broad base of support for the establishment of an additional 250 gardens in' Broward County in 1987. - e In Central and North Florida - EWH is in process of identifying neighborhood groups in West Palm Beach, Tampa, Orlando, and Gainesville to de - ye op pilot community garden projects in 1987. Jackson- M ville has had community gardens established for several years. In each of these cities we intend to be a catalyst in bringing the resources of those cities together to create a self• generating system that supports community gardening as a focus for ending hunger. 13 7-26'7'' x In Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington,DC, and Baltimore - EWH is identifying successful non-profit community gardening groups that can support expansion to in- clude more gardeners. We will fund aminimum of 400 new plots in those cities in 1987 which will provide food for approximately 2000 year. Nationally - EWH is supporting the development of a Community Garden Contest. The contest will have entries from every state and will encourage excellence in gardening and emphasize community gardening as a focus for ending hunger in America. - EWH will continue its established policy of funding educational awareness programs intended to create a growing body of well informed people who will generate and support a variety of ending hunger programs in America and around the world. The founders and directors of EWH have shown wisdom and insight from the beginning in recognizing that community involvement is the cornerstone for lasting progress in ending hunger. We will continue to build on their vision of funding locally created, loca_1_ly executed, locally funded community development projects that support the en3 of hunger through a hand - not a hand out. Sincerely, % iane Silverman Executive Director 8'7-26 OLLn=c 5e out c Join the Stela and th e ros a 7� the'Lorne Greene Celebziftj 7tmClassic. to End World Hunger ipr115, -1. -.198i (itPahn,-dire—Pompano Beach,11orida Presented by Chissic,VotorCarricages and Commonuleald) Sauinys &Loan iI"I nt.(�nlnrt- A_.C;nnt r-ROO-.ti?.7-.1;F,aT J.. �� I Ill lam! ` g61,1F3 .s• z. Kids heID th By Ana Rodrigoes-Sobu t Voice News Editor C own -ups could leam a lesson or two from the kids of St. Brendan School. Specifically -from the sixth- graden, and h+om a teacher who insists dial religion be lived, not just kamed. The students hom the west Dade school. mostly 12-year-olds,-spent three weeksstudying the U.S. bishopslatest Twice they watched the vn pe ,. which accompanies it, * "God and Money. They didn't have to take any tests on the subject but one could argue that fry passed with hying colors; because they decided to take up the letter's chaileoge• and reach out to the poor in dMir commulnity. 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BADGES $125 per person $50. per pin $250 = Tables of ten lnchWe Cali 9"-9700 Call 977-9700 CELEBMYCOME Call d7.9700 Proceeds Will Plant Community Gardens in South Florida Community gardens bring vacant neighborhood land and hun- Please Make Checks to: END WORLD HUNGER gry people together with top sod, seed and tools to grow food 1460 W. McNab Road — Ft. Lauderdale, FL =09 for themselves year after year.