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Sustainability Efforts in the Trenton Community
Ginny Weinmann
• A non-profit focusing on community development and sustainability within Trenton, NJ.
• Direct action in the community, fostering self-reliance, creating safer neighborhoods, sponsoring renovation of homes, focusing on energy efficiency
• 30 community and school gardens
• Food and Sustainability Intern
Gardens
• Positive impact on urban community and cityscape
• Food donated to food pantries and sold through a CSA
• Isles Garden Tour• Student education • What I did:
– Garden work– CSA– Research on market
gardens
Tucker Street
Canal Farm
Work in the Garden
• Helped with CSA distribution
• Weeding and watering (learning about the labor of organic farming)
• Planting and harvesting
• Garden logistics
Watering Tomatoes
Garden Co-op Research
• Rutgers and Isles Food Security Report
• Preliminary work on a project to put local garden food into the bodegas by forming a profit gardening co-op from all the gardens in Trenton
• Did research to create a database of similar existing projects
Home Energy and Financial Independence
• Worked one day a week at Isles E4
• Home energy and financial independence section of Isles
• Foreclosure mitigation • Personal contact with
individuals in the community
Summary• The impact that urban gardens have on cities• The essentiality of non-profits working together for a greater goal• A need to educate children about healthy food options• A personal desire to work with sustainable food in the future • Thank You
– Meredith Taylor – Jim Simon – Peter Rose
CSA Distribution Tucker Street Corn with Battle Monument