Flint Unity Farming Project- Teaching children to appreciate Nature & the planet through Agriculture"
Thank you.
The Marshall Family Foundation was able to obtain the the lots of 751 Addison Street Flint Michigan 48505, to be home of the Flint Unity Farming Project that started on July 30th 2016. This is an extension of the Trevis Rouser Memorial Gardens @ Berston. To see photo album & commentary from the event, please visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1750265311855220&type=1&l=eea13af0b6www.
Ms. Angela Stamps President of Berston Bike Club KASC online at www.kentakee.org/ was a major part of this project, and Commissioner Nolden & President of Friends of Berston was a major help in getting this project completed. Special thanks to Aurora Innovations, home based in Eugene, Oregon and manufacture of the famous & widely used Roots Organic fertilizer product line will be the official soil, fertilizer & nutrients sponsor for the Flint Unity Farming Project site. For more info on Roots Organics & other top of the line products from Aurora Innovations, visit their website at www.aurorainnovations.org/original-potting-soil.html . The goal of the Flint Unity Farming Project is to keep our children from choosing to use drugs or crime. Gardening is scientifically proven to calm the mind & lessen stress. Mostly importantly, helps the mind make better decisions. I'm trying to help raise youthful leaders. We are devoted to helping the school kids of Flint by promoting Academics, Athletics, Gardening & Fitness. to the kids of Flint, Michigan. Our first project, the Trevis Rouser Memorial community gardens was a success and gained a lot of community exposure. The Trevis Rouser garden gained over 1500 Likes and sparked alot of conversation locally and worldwide. Distinguished Dr. Panicker of Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi is sending me a thousand different seeds to help start garden and his textbooks to help me teach Gardening class with. The Farming Project will also consist of the "No Drugs 4 Life & the Increase the Peace" programs we've started locally thanks to work & efforts of my co-worker, head of the Berstons Bike Club Ms.Angela Stamps. With the Flint Water Crisis the children are hurt and feel betrayed and think that their lives lack meaning. We want to inspire kids by putting shovels, rakes, and hedge shears in their hands, and not drugs, guns or knives.
Gardening is the new, natural way to relieve stress & clear ones thinking and is being used in prison yards to retirement and veteran homes to programs. I saw the benefit of offering farming & gardening classes to troubled youth. It's called horticultural therapy, and I see how if applied and presented to inner city kids, it would be a confidence builder and a motivator for not only our kids, but for the community as a whole. We want the Flint Unity Farming Project kids to learn landscaping & gardening. Once they complete the 5 week course, they'll be certified and able to work for the Trevis Rouser Lawn Care Service that will be HQ'd on Addison Street as well. The kids will be able to have jobs year round cutting grass, planting flowers to shoveling snow. We are still in a "work in Progress, and trying to got an idea of how to get this Project fully funded & operational without more wasted time. And again, I special thanks to Aurora Innovations of Eugene, Oregon, for being the sole sponsor of the Flint Unity Farming Project. Without the donation, calls & assistance from Chris Smith and Mr. Drysdale, this project would never have started. I sent out over a thousand emails to foundations, groups, agencies & people LOCALLY to get assistance for this project. Eugene, Oregon was over 2,395 miles away from Flint, Michigan. But not any more! Thank you Oregon for helping a community of people here in Flint, Michigan. Connect with us:
Marshall Family Foundation/ Trevis Rouser Memorial Gardens Contact Info: Dee Marshall cell phone (810) 620-7281 Email: 810mmg@gmail.com websites: www.Acure-foundation.yolasite.com and www.810books.yolasite.com Ms. Angela Stamps Berston Bike Club KASC online at www.kentakee.org/