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2016 NEIGHBORUP! WEEK
Highlighting community development, local nonprofits BY MAREN MCDOWELL
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Ashleigh Quinn constructed a hoop house to help protect part of her Back-to-Eden garden outside her Black Forest home. Courtesy Ashleigh Quinn
Black Forest gardeners revive community growing with new planting methods BY EMMY MCALLISTER
Black Forest Victory Garden Club & Weston A. Price Foundation, Black Forest Chapter
This growing season, Black Forest gardeners are trying something new to bring life and health to their community, and the Black Forest Victory Garden Club is leading the charge. “Growing vegetables here in Black Forest was so easy,” said Ashleigh Quinn, who gardens at 7,400 feet above sea level. “My previous traditional, in-ground gardens here had been unsuccessful, but my parents, who live near Prescott, Ariz., were using
the ‘Back-to-Eden’ gardening method and were getting such great harvests that I was really excited to try it myself, and it worked. It was the ultimate in low maintenance: no tilling, no fertilizing, almost no watering or weeding and it produced an amazing harvest the first time I tried it.” The Black Forest Victory Garden Club is a project of the Weston A. Price Foundation, an international nonprofit with a mission to teach people how to – CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 –
APRIL 14: Black Forest Victory Garden Club monthly meeting Meetings are held twice on meeting days: noon – 2 p.m. and 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Black Forest Fire & Rescue headquarters, 11445 Teachout Road, one block east of Black Forest and Burgess roads. For more information, contact Emmy McAllister at healthsolutionsnow@earthlink.net.
The Council of Neighbors and Org a ni zat ions (CONO) will host its annual NeighborUp! Week from April 30 - May 6 at various locations around Colorado Springs. The purposes of the El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark week are to presents Jeff Greene with the Neighborhood Champion Award during the 2015 e n c o u r a g e NeighborUp! Week. Courtesy Council of the city’s res- Neighbors and Organizations idents to engage in their neighborhoods and inform citizens about the services CONO provides. Speakers, workshops, and events will share best practices for building healthy neighborhoods and center around educating the community on the significance of neighborhood development. Mayor John Suthers will speak on the importance of – CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 –
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