The Garden Project
Producers: Inye Wokoma & Kristi Wokoma
The Garden Project is a documentary-style public information project that promotes urban organic gardening while addressing a host of environmental, public health, economic, and lifestyle issues. In the project six urban families of color living typical city lives decide to take up organic gardening using only their available resources of time, space and money. As beginning gardeners neophytes their endeavors will be a learning experience, demonstrating how a small investment in time and money can make organic produce accessible and yield great returns. The participating families will learn the basics of organic gardening from local experts and will be coach throughout the growing season on how to nurture and maintain their crops.
Each family will grow a variety of crops determined by their available resources of space and time. At various points in the growing season each family will work closely with Kristi Wokoma and a certified nutritionist to learn about the health benefits of their crop and develop delicious, healthy and easy to prepare meals based on dishes they currently like and eat frequently. Towards the end of the growing season all of the families will gather together for a dinner party where all of the featured dishes will be based on ingredients derived from their gardens.
TGP will be presented as a series of short 15-20 minute documentary-style segments that can be viewed on DVD and on the web. Each segment will incorporate entertaining messages about organic foods, cooking, health and lifestyle, budgeting and economics, environmental awareness and social responsibility. The project is designed to be useful to Organizations and Agencies whose mission it is to address public health issues, topics of urban and environmental sustainability, educational institutions, and individuals interested in improving their quality of life.
The Garden Project is currently slated to launch in the spring of 2010. For more information contact:
Inye Wokoma (click name for email) | ph: 206.325.1159
FEBRUARY 10, 2010 UPDATE: The official site for The Garden Project has been launched. Visit it at http://thegardenproject.ijoarts.com
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You can help support The Garden Project! Our goal is to raise $5000.00 from small donors by March 30, 2010. These donations will help match funds we are raising from other sponsors, grantors and partners. Donations of any size will help make this project a success.
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