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From Pennie O’Grady, news of Sustainable Green Lake‘s January 19th meeting: January 19: Growing Food, Growing the Neighborhood It’s not too soon to be planning for 2010, getting out your new calendars and putting Sustainable Green Lake’s 3rd Tuesdays into yours! The January 19 Gathering is shaping up to be an exciting affair, “Growing Food, Growing the Neighborhood.” There continues to be strong interest in growing food close to home, and in January we will be looking at ways we are coming together to do that and more. Come to get inspired and maybe even jump on board! Presenters confirmed…

The Green Lake Green Thumbs, a new community group focused on growing edibles, will be holding it’s next meeting Wednesday, January 6 at 6 p.m. The group is open to all who are interested in food gardening.  Pennie O’Grady, the group’s founder, describes the group as place that neighbors can “meet and talk together in an enthusiastic way, swap seeds and stories, and generally concoct co-learning opportunities with plants and dirt.” From Pennie: Current projects that are moving ahead with traction: Katherine Ransel is convening a group of people interested in getting perennial food growing at Green Lake Park. Contact…

A new group has formed in the neighborhood: The Green Lake Green Thumbs.  The Green Thumbs, which had its genesis in Sustainable Green Lake, has met twice and plans to continue to meet monthly. The group is open to all who are interested in food gardening.  Pennie O’Grady, the group’s founder, hopes that the group can “meet and talk together in an enthusiastic way, swap seeds and stories, and generally concoct co-learning opportunities with plants and dirt.” Pennie reports the following from the November meeting: The Green Lake Green Thumbs are off to a rousing start!  There were 12 of…