Food Grown Here
Get your very own FOOD GROWN HERE sign for your yard to declare with pride your ability to grow food and participate in this great awareness campaign promoting the hope and energy around local food ! The signs were generously funded by the Bluegrass Community Foundation with design by Cricket Press. We’re asking for a $10 donation per sign, of which every cent will go to the East End Renaissance Fund that will help revitalize and beautify the historic East End of Lexington.
Signs should be available at most Seedleaf events, or contact us directly with your address and we’ll find a way to connect.
Special Note: We’re trying to keep a log of where the signs go throughout Lexington, so help us create a map of addresses and a photo album of pictures of the signs throughout Lexington!
Check em out below!
families grow food together!
Downtown yards...
...suburban homes grow food too!
The girls at Florence Crittenton Home have a huge garden
Rev. Diane Baldwin proudly displays the sign at Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church
Rona Roberts - First Sign!
Children placing the sign in their school garden
Debra Hensley's office on Nicholasville Rd. Great visability!
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I am working with the local 350.org group developing a bike tour of downtown Lexington. The tour is part of a multifaceted event designed to call attention to our community’s contribution to climate change, both positive and negative. One of the things I plan to highlight on the tour, which will take place between 11am and 1 :30 pm on September the 24th, is the rise of urban gardening in this area. Would one of your members care to offer their garden as a potential stop on the tour? The format is fairly low maintenance, in that the participants will only be stopping to pick up a “trinket” (designed to prove their presence at the end of the tour) which I will provide, at the site. The only interaction necessary would be to permit me to place the trinket bag on site during the tour- preferably in a spot accessible to the street.
If, on the other hand, a proud gardener would care to “meet and greet” the participants briefly as they ride by, it would definitely add an educational component to the stop that we would greatly appreciate. I do want to emphasize, however, that the tour participants will not require any personal interaction or access to private property to make it successful. I am impressed with your organization’s mission, however, and would love to feature SeedLeaf in any way you see fit. If anyone has any questions or concerns, please contact me at your convenience at 859-338-1573 or via email.
Thanks for your attention and your efforts.
Barry Richardson