Plant Sale at Our Saviour

This is a wide shot of the East Dallas Garden, it's a view of looking down Fitzhugh, with some restaurants and convenient stores down the street. It impossible to show any of Dallas' buildings and give this images a city-life- feeling but maybe it helps some!



These are images from the other Plant Sale/Work Day. Don was giving tours of the garden, showing off the new chicken coupe and Olga was showing new gardeners what she has planted and how they could do it too.

GICD Annual Plant Sale

These are images from this past weekends annual plant sale. They were given donations from Calloway's and other nursery's to sell. Also the Refugees were given the opportunity to sell starter plants that they grew!

Clean-Up

These are a few photos from Clean-up day at the East Dallas Gardens before their annual sale. They will be having a sale this weekend, April, 17-18!

GICD UPDATE

I was unable to shoot this week. Coming up on this Saturday they are continuing to clean up at the East Dallas Garden's to get setup for their annual plant sale in April. I will be attending this clean up to shoot the refugees and volunteers who are out to help. They also have finally got chickens in their chicken coupe at Our Saviour, where anyone kids to adults can harvest the eggs. That's it for now, check back later.

Morning Bible Reading(Ritual)

This is my Ritual Project: Most mornings I wake and read the word, dive in and see what the word reveals about Himself and how I can glorify Him that day!

St. Patrick's Day Parade(Event

I thought I would post a few pictures of the St. Patrick's Day Parade, this is the coverage of my Event Project: Every year on Greenville Ave. they celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a big parade, very interesting characters show up!

Harvesting...

Proposal

My idea initially was shooting the local area (Knox/Henderson) where I live and researching what it used to be to what it now is and doing the research and to photograph the changes. But as I continue to explore this new area I live in I found several successful community gardens that began in 1994 by the Lambert family. Cambodian refuges are the primary gardeners at the three in Dallas, which are East Dallas, Live Oak and Peace. It’s not typical to run across Cambodian people on a daily basis but be able to meet them and hear and capture their work through photography. Through these gardens it has brought the community together with volunteer help and bringing different ethnic cultures together. There are two different other gardens one is Our Saviour which is at The Church of Our Saviour, for one thing, they have much going on there each week, with weekly harvests, workdays, an orchard, composting center, green house, family and pantry plots, and soon to add chickens, etc. Our Saviour is where many groups come for volunteer work, and to learn about organizing and running community gardening projects. The community impact of this group is very great, they are using this particular garden the model what other gardens should run and be like. The one thing that really struck me was how much they were able to donate to local food pantries. The first year they were open they gave 1,000 lbs. of food. In 2004 they donated over a ton (2,000 lbs.) and in 2006 they donated over two tons at 5,500 lbs., which is pretty remarkable. They are currently apart of 20 local community gardens that other people have started that once volunteered at their garden. Not only is it about helping those in the local neighborhoods get the food they need and growing your own food but bringing people to community which we all long to take part in.