04\/02\/12 Grow Annapolis Makes Gardens Happen<\/a> 03\/29\/12 Growing a Garden and Community<\/a> 03\/03\/12 Annapolis’ community garden<\/a> 06\/21\/11 Local Gardeners Find Healthy Living in Community Gardens<\/a> 04\/30\/11 Elementary students plant gardens; learn value of healthy diet<\/a> “We hope by the end of the year, we’ll have a great salad we grew ourselves,” Principal Susan Myers told them.<\/p>\n It’s part of a partnership with Grow Annapolis, a non-profit organization promoting community gardens to promote healthy eating…<\/p>\n 04\/3\/11 Grow Annapolis Kicks off Gardening Season with Orientation and Work Party<\/a> The event kicked off at 9 a.m., when folks arrived to sign in and pick up a handbook. Then people divided into two groups: one group began preparing the site of the Annapolis Elementary School garden, and the other group worked the City Dock community garden, located at 9 St. Mary\u2019s Street.<\/p>\n 03\/08\/11 Annapolis garden plot thickens! Apply now<\/a>
\nHomestead Gardens Blog<\/strong> – I’ve watched gardening organizations form, then create a project or two with modest success, but I’ve never seen one have the impact that Grow Annapolis has in it’s two short years. It broke ground on its first garden – the Annapolis City Dock Community Garden (and the only community garden in Annapolis) – in mid-summer of 2010 and that garden now serves 20+ local gardeners and passerby who partake of its gleaning opportunities (it’s not stealing; it’s encouraged!) The Grow Annapolis team is now working hard to start a second, much larger community garden at Bywater Park.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s Up Annapolis<\/strong> – One warm October morning in 2010, an elementary school principal, a PTA president, a worker from the school\u2019s after-care program, and a young man running a newly incorporated nonprofit, got together to talk about creating a school food garden.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s Up Annapolis<\/strong> – Community gardens are great for people like me — I currently live in an apartment, I’m about to move into a townhome, and I just don’t have anywhere other than a pot on my windowsill to grow plants. Other than basil, there’s not much I can grow. <\/p>\n
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\nGreater Annapolis Patch<\/strong> – Local food experts from around the region gathered Thursday at Quiet Waters Park for the seventh in a series of environmental lectures. The theme for Thursday\u2019s session was The Benefits to Eating Green.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Capital Gazette<\/strong> – In a collision of urban and agrarian, the downtown Annapolis Elementary School dedicated new gardens behind its playgrounds yesterday. Inside freshly constructed raised boxes, students prekindergarten through fifth grade each had a plot where they planted various items like lemon thyme, blueberries, strawberries and lettuce.<\/p>\n
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\nGreater Annapolis Patch<\/strong> – Dozens of gardeners, many of whom live in apartments and condominiums with minimal yard space, came together to sip coffee, socialize, and get their hands dirty.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Baltimore Sun<\/strong> – I stumbled on these gardens last summer while strolling around downtown, and they were doing beautifully. <\/p>\n
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