April 2012 Newsletter

April 16, 2012

A blessed Easter to all of you!  A blessed Passover to all of you!  A very happy Spring to everyone!

A long time ago, when I was in college, I heard an Easter homily by a fellow named Joe Oppitz, C.Ss.R., now deceased.  Fr. Joe told us that as he left his house to go for a walk to gather his thoughts for the homily, he happened to hear some rustling coming from under the hedges near the door.  He carefully pulled back the hedges only to reveal a mother rabbit fawning over her newborn brood.  He went on to talk about Easter and Passover as the annual celebration of life, life in the face of death, a life gifted to us by a God who never stops loving us, marveling at us and entrusting to our care this amazing life that we celebrate.  The care of life, the life of our fellow human beings, the life of other species on this planet, the life of the planet itself:  all cry out for the tender and loving care of God, and of us, God’s stewards. 

Coming to an awareness of our call to care for the earth can often be a resurrection experience.  So many of us take for granted the food that we eat, the water that we drink, the air that we breathe, the grounds upon which we walk, and the gardens that we enjoy.  It is the “taking it for granted” attitude that eats away at any ability or willingness that we have to respond to God’s invitation to be the caretakers of the new life that is the gift of this season of promise.  We need to nurture it, be nurtured by it, to open our eyes to the wondrous reality of creation and the pressing claims that creation makes on us human beings, so gifted and yet so unable, at times, to see beyond our own noses to the impact our lives have on the planet around us, both its human inhabitants, its animals, indeed, all of creation.

However, spring is a hopeful time, the time of resurrection (a return from the “death” of winter), a time of passing over the limitations of human bias to an ever growing awareness of the fragile yet terribly strong bonds that unite all of creation.  In the last month three events have occurred in our little corner of the planet, in Waterfront South, that remind me, and I hope you too, that this is indeed a new time, of new life, and of renewed commitment to caring for all.

First, in March, 12 baby chicks arrived at the Emerald Street Garden in our neighborhood.  Actually they stayed in Andrea’s house, in a cardboard box, as they were quite small.  Now they are in the old rabbit hutch, converted into a chicken coop for small chicks.  Soon they will be strutting around the garden, and soon enough they will be laying eggs, eggs that will be used in cooking classes with the children who gather around the breadoven on Friday’s, dancing to the tune played by Andrea’s stories.  The beautiful thing about chickens is that their life is an ongoing act of generosity.  Imagine, creation has gotten to the place in its evolutionary path where these birds provide nourishment for their human neighbors most of their adult life.  It is an act of overflowing generosity on the part of creation, and creation’s God.  We celebrate the chickens as a walking, and laying, reminder of the tendency of all creation, to overflow with abundance for all members of the biotic community, an overflow that was manifest in the second event.

On Tuesday, April 10^th, Jorge Cartagena, a young boy who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time last June, cut the ribbons on a new house that the Heart of Camden Housing, Inc., the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation and the Sacred Heart Church community had secured for him and his grandmother.  Jorge, who likes to go by George, is now blind, due to the bullet so callously lodged in his brain that June day.  The entire community rallied to  George’s side, and his response?  Joy, pure joy.  Rather than allow his blindness to move him deeper into himself and away from those who love him, it has catapulted him into a life of constant smiles, encouragement for others, a blessing offered to all with whom he interacts.  This celebration on the 10^th of April is not a one and done kind of event.  As Mayor Dana Redd said, herself the recipient of this community’s generosity when she was orphaned at a young age, this community doesn’t just care for one day, not just for one year, but for many years.  Like creation itself, the community of Waterfront South and Sacred Heart Church are overflowing with generosity for one of its own.  It is a reflection of creation’s own abundant flow, and a manifestation of the caring for creation that ought to mark our lives.

The third event took place the next day, April 11^th, when Mr. Andy Kricun, our friend and the executive director of the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority (the waste treatment plant) located in our neighborhood, was honored at Villanova University.  The Ethics Program of the university awarded Mr. Kricun the Praxis Award in Professional Ethics in recognition of his commitment to the ideals of his engineering profession, keeping paramount the health, welfare and safety of the public, as well as his clear understanding of the connection between his professional activity and the common good.  At the celebration, Andrea Ferich and Helene Pierson, of the Center and the Heart of Camden respectively, detailed the ways in which Mr. Kricun, over 25 years, has worked to become a partner with the community of Waterfront South to insure clean water for the residents of Camden County, but also to insure that the lives of the neighbors might be better for the plant’s presence. The most recent achievement for Mr. Kricun and the CCMUA is the acquisition of an old factory site to the south of the CCMUA plant that will become Phoenix Park, a 5 acre waterfront park for the residents of this neighborhood.  The beauty of the river will be more opened to them now.  Once again, the generosity of the work and commitment is a manifestation of that overflow that characterizes the gift of creation that spring, Easter and Passover remind us to celebrate.

We are blessed in Waterfront South and in Camden to have clear opportunities to awaken our consciousness and our conscience to the Easter call of new life.  Whether in the arrival of chicks, the blessing of a new house, or in the celebration of the professional excellence of one of our own, all of these are marks of creation’s overflowing generosity. It is the nature of creation to overflow in generosity.  May we be stewards of this creation.  May we too become enlivened in our hearts and minds, so that we can overflow in generosity, as members of the circle of creation, in caring for the creation God has so generously given us.  Christ is Risen!  Our God has saved God’s people!  The earth is breaking forth in vibrant and pulsing color!  What a gift to be part of it!  To do our bit!

Christ is Risen!

Mark Doorley, Ph.D.

President, Board of Trustees

The Center for Environmental Transformation

www.camdencenterfortransformation.org

NEWS & NOTES

1.       Earth Day Celebrations in Camden and at the Center.  See the attached flyer for  more detail.

a.      Thursday, April 19^th,  Rain Garden Planting, 9:30AM, Ferry Ave. Branch Library, CFET receives Camden’s Environmental Hero Award

b.      Friday, April 20^th, screening of “Journey of the Universe,” a wonderful documentary that tells the story of this marvelous universe.  Join us for soup at 6:30 and the film at 7:30PM.  Sacred Heart Cafeteria

c.       Sunday, April 22^nd, Fair Earth Day, after the 8:3o and 10:30 masses at Sacred Heart Church, in the cafeteria (seedlings, native plants, demonstrations, fun)

d.      Tuesday, April 24^th, 10AM, Phoenix Park Groundbreaking, a new 5 acre park on the waterfront, 227 Jefferson Street 

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  2. JOIN US!  Saturday, May 5, 2012. Monthly Work Day!  Bring gloves and some drinking water.  Meet at the Poet’s Walk, next to 422 Jasper Street.  Let Andrea know you are coming with an email to aferich@gmail.com.

3.      SAVE THE DATE!  Sunday, June 24^th, at 3PM in the South Camden Theatre.  A screening of the movie “Journey of the Universe.”  This event is a fundraiser for the Center.  Tickets will be available.  This film tells the remarkable story of a remarkable reality:  the cosmos!  One of the producers is Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker, who will be giving the fourth annual Thomas Berry lecture on Sunday, October 7^th, at Sacred Heart Church. SAVE THAT DATE TOO!

4.      YEAH!  This week marks the completion of the new windows on the second floor of the Center.  It has been a long time coming, but with the help of the Allegheny Franciscans and many individual donors the work was completed this week, so that the second floor has brand new windows.  In total, 30 windows have been replaced with energy efficient windows.  We still have eleven more to do on the first floor.  Help us get that done!  Contact Mark Doorley at mark.doorley@villanova.edu if you’d like to contribute to the capital campaign. We also have a new front porch to build and the side porch to complete.  We need your help!

5.      Last month our own Andrea Ferich was honored as one of 10 women in Camden recognized as Women of Purpose.  Congratulations, Andrea!  Go to our Facebook page for some photographs.

6.      We hosted a group from Rutger’s/New Brunswick this last weekend.  They were fabulous!  Thank you to Cathy Nevins, Cathy Fox, and Andrea Ferich for working with this group. They worked in the orchard, and helped George and his grandmother move into their new house.  We hope to see them back, perhaps as staff for other groups.

7.      We need your assistance getting the word out that the Center is available for groups who want to spend a weekend or week with us, learning about sustainability and environmental transformation, and getting their hands dirty in our gardens, and learning to wrangle chickens!  If you are involved with a school, or a faith community, that might want to spend time with us, please contact Betty Musetto at bettyelainemusetto@hotmail.com.

March 2012: The Center for Environmental Transformation

 

March 15, 2012

Greetings from Camden, NJ!

It is hard to believe that we are in the middle of March already.  The temperatures this week in our part of the world have reached 70 each of three days.  That is hard to believe for the week before spring begins.  However, it has been three weeks already that Andrea Ferich, the Center’s Director of Sustainability Initiatives, and her helpers have been planting seedlings in the greenhouse.  At full production, the greenhouse will produce 13,000 seedlings of heirloom vegetables and native plants.  That work of planting began when the temperature was just about freezing, not exactly the most comfortable time to be outdoors, but being in the greenhouse makes that temperature insignificant.

Not only is the greenhouse a hotbed of activity (no pun intended!) but so are the gardens.  The Emerald Street Garden is undergoing its normal transformation from the dormancy of winter to the cauldron of new, emerging life that is Spring.  The community garden is also undergoing a remarkable transformation as it is readied for the annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration:  planting potatoes!  It is hard to imagine all the hands that have had a part of play in the preparations of the garden for the reception of potatoes this coming Saturday.  First, the land had to be cleared and the beds readied, with deep trenches on each side.  This was accomplished by the students and staff of Neumann University who spent a week at the Center earlier this month.  They got down and dirty in the garden, creating the space for plentiful potato production.  Next, the potatoes have to be prepared for the planting.  This was done by Andrea and her Junior Farmers.  In fact, as this is written, several pairs of hands are deftly moving over the potatoes which will become the roots that can sustain us so well.  Finally, there are all those hands that will gather this Saturday, at 1PM, to do the potato planting.  This is not just a mundane chore that one can do quickly and be done with.  It is a ritual by which community is built and nourished.  Many hands come together to plant potatoes on a beautiful Spring day in Camden, NJ.  The produce of this planting will feed many mouths, as the potatoes are prepared at the earthen breadoven near our greenhouse.  Those potatoes will become pancakes, French fries, mashed, roasted or stuffed with broccoli and cheese.  Those potatoes will become sustenance for those who walk our neighborhood, who worked the land, who cultivated the potatoes as they percolated in the ground.  It is a community effort to bring forth food from the earth, to prepare it and to enjoy its nourishment.  And the community is not just a human one, but it includes the sun with its life-giving rays, water with its empowering touch, the nutrients of the soil that provide the substance of the potato, and the breath of God, the air, whose oxygen powers the transformation of water, sun and soil into the golden nuggets that fill our hunger.  It is a remarkable team effort!  On Saturday, we will sing, and dance, and eat and get our hands dirty, and laugh and remember and breathe and tell stories.  This is our St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

We hope you can join us. We hope you will continue to support the work of the Center.  It is amazing to think what the community of earth, and air, and water and sun, along with human labor, can do to transform matter into life-giving nourishment.  It is amazing!  Join us in the work of transformation!  Each of us does our bit, and the world, and us, is transformed, made more capable of being bearers of God to those around us, the most profound work of transformation that the universe makes possible.

Peace to you and yours.

Mark Doorley, Ph.D.

President, Board of Trustees

The Center for Environmental Transformation

www.camdencenterfortransformation.org

NEWS AND NOTES

1.       JOIN US!  Saturday, March 17^th, 1PM for the annual St. Patrick’s Day potato planting.  Meet at 412 Jasper St., Camden, NJ.  See flyer for more information.  Or visit our Facebook invitation.

2.      Community Supported Agriculture(CSA) in Waterfront South in  Camden, NJ!  The Center has partnered with GreensGrow of Philadelphia to create a CSA in Waterfront South.  The pick up will be on Fridays between 4-7PM.  What is a CSA?  It is a way to distribute the risk of farming by local farmers more broadly with the people who enjoy the fruit of the farmers’ labors.  The way it works is that a CSA member pays up front, and then each week (Fridays) they pick up their share from the end of June til the end of October.  A share is a box or half a box of fruit, vegetables, dairy products, and other items produced by local farmers in southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey.  For more information you can visit this website.  Feel free to contact Andrea Ferich at aferich@gmail.com for more information.

3.      April 7^th is the first Saturday of April, but it is also in the middle of the Easter Triduum, the holiest time in the Christian calendar, so there will not be a work day at the Center.  However, on March 31^st, the church of Sacred Heart engages in a fairly extensive cleanup of the area, including the streets, in preparation for the Easter Triduum.  The work begins at 9AM, with a lunch available for workers at Noon.  Join us if you can!

4.      THE JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE.  This is a new movie out, produced by physicist Brian Swimme and theologian Mary Evelyn Tucker.  Mary Evelyn Tucker is the speaker for our fourth annual Thomas Berry lecture which will be held on Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 3PM at Sacred Heart Church.  To prepare for this event, we are hosting a screening of this movie at the South Camden Theatre on the corner of Jasper St. & South 4^th Street in Camden.   The date is Sunday, June 24^th.  SAVE THE DATE.  More information will be forthcoming.

5.      This past week the Center welcomed its newest set of chicks who soon will take up residence in our beautiful chicken coop, and begin supplying us with wonderful eggs every day.  We got a variety of species.  There are 3 Aracana, 1 brahma, 1 Speckled Sussex, 2 barred rock, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 golden boot feathers and 1 queen stachies.  Soon you can come visit them, escorted by our very own Chicken Cowboys.

6.      Enjoy two videos produced by Andrea Ferich, Director of Sustainability Initiatives.  Through these videos we hope to get the word out about the promise of Camden and its people.  You can find them here and here.  Pass them around to your family and friends.

7.      We are always looking for members to join us on our Facebook page, and to join our email distribution list.  Please find us on Facebook, and send this email along to those in your network who are interested in the environment.

8.      This past week we had students from Neumann University join us at the Center. They were fantastic.  They worked in the school, painted the new gym on South Broadway, prepared the gardens for potato planting and worked in the greenhouse.  Below are some comments we heard:

“I feel different.. planting trees, making it possible for people to eat more healthy food by growing it in their neighborhood.”

“The first time I came to Camden, I was very much afraid… this year I’m not wasting time with fear.”

“We were going to go to Philadelphia for dinner one night, but some of us objected that we ought to support the people of Camden by going somewhere in Camden for dinner. We went to Corinne’s!  It was fantastic!.”

“The team work necessary to do the painting job in the gym was demanding, but we did it, with patience and support for each other.  If we weren’t a team before that job, we are now!”

“The children we met in the garden are very happy.  I didn’t expect that, given where they live, and the challenges of where they live.”

“In school, I heard a child say he didn’t like school; a peer said to him, “How can you not like school and grow up not knowing anything.”  I was impressed by the desire to learn and be successful.”

“I learned that if we had not been here, the children would not have had gym class as two teachers are needed to take the children outside, and only one was available.  I was definitely needed today.”

“The 5th grade class was so welcoming to me.  One child said “I wish you could be my sister!”  It was overwhelming to receive so much love and warmth.”

“I videotaped two boys in the greenhouse.  One wanted to be a rapper when he grew up.  When I asked the two why they came to the greenhouse they said, “Because it is a safe place and it helps them stay out of trouble.””

“There was a group of us who worked three days straight in the community garden. Each day we saw lots of kids coming out of school, playing in the park.  One group looked rather intimidating, but when they found out what we were doing, they got very excited and thanked us.  Looks can be deceiving.”

“Playing with the kids was great, but talking with them was even better.  That day the odor in the neighborhood was particularly bad.  Rather than just accept it as a given, the kids started strategizing how they can end the odor.  It was amazing!”

February 2012: The Center for Environmental Transformation

Greetings from Camden!

A friend of mine told me a rather disturbing story the other day.  She was sharing her work on sustainability with some teachers who work in the public schools.  She was abruptly interrupted by one of the teachers who asked:  What is sustainability?  This was disturbing because it was a teacher who didn’t know what sustainability is.  If the teachers of our society don’t know what sustainability is, then is it any wonder that everyday persons on the street might have trouble getting their minds, and more importantly, their hearts, around the notion of sustainability.

So what is it?  I am not an expert.  If you want to hear the opinion of an expert you ought to touch base with my good friend Lori Braunstein of Sustainable Cherry Hill.  Or perhaps you could talk to Ed Cohen of the Green Team of Mt. Laurel, NJ.  However, I do have my understanding of sustainability that I hope might be helpful to someone.  Sustainability is essentially about living on this planet in a way that will insure some semblance of the planet for our children and grandchildren.  Why do we need to worry about this?  The fossil fuels that make possible the lifestyle that we now enjoy are non-renewable.  We are using them now at such a clip that we may well be out of fossil fuels (natural gas, petroleum, coal) long before the end of this 21^st century.  We are also using water at an incredible clip, and more and more places are finding it difficult to maintain adequate levels of potable water for their people.  Some think that our next major armed conflict may very well be focused on water supplies.  Amazingly enough, our atmosphere is under attack.  The CO₂ in our atmosphere is growing steadily, warming the atmosphere, which ironically makes more fresh water available via the melting of the polar ice caps.  Too bad that fresh water won’t get to the places where armed conflict over water is likely to occur!  The bottom line, demonstrated by many scientists, is that our natural world and its resources is not able to sustain the pressure that the demands of our lifestyle apply daily, around the world.  Sustainability is an concerted effort to impact the way in which we walk on this planet, make use of its resources, and respect its rhythms.

Sustainability initiatives include reducing our energy consumption and supporting alternative and renewable energy source production.  It includes thinking through the food production system which we support through our food dollars, realizing other ways in which to obtain our food that is both less draining on our limited fossil fuels but also much gentler to the soil and to the animals.  It includes realizing that violence is a fundamentally unsustainable solution to recurring problems. It includes attention to the distribution of the resources of our society. It is impossible to sustain a society when its resources are distributed in a way that leaves many struggling to meet the necessities of daily living and the few capable of ignoring the vast majority behind high walls and in private, exclusive schools and clubs.  I’ve just touched on some sustainability initiatives here; there are many more but I hope the direction of these initiatives is clear from these examples.

Sustainability rests on the idea that human beings, with all of our intellectual power and creative imagination, are members of the planet.  We are not the monarchs, the dictators, the masters.  We are embedded deeply in webs of interconnectedness, in webs of interdependence.  William Faulkner wrote  a short story entitled “Delta Autumn” in which he tells the story of a young boy who was taught to hunt by two older men when he was  a teen. Each autumn he returns to the scene of his first kill, to reconnect with nature, and with his identity.  What is clear from Faulkner’s telling is that the techniques the young man was taught enabled him to attend to nature in a very different way. He had to look at the world the way the deer or the bear looked at the world. Only by coming to a deep appreciation of the ways of the world, and of his place in it, could the young man be successful in his hunt.  And when he had shot the deer, and used his knife to quickly end its life, he took a bit of the blood of the deer and placed it on his face, to remember.  William E. May, in reflecting on this short story, identifies two insightful moments. First, the young man comes to realize his dependence on nature.  Second, he also came to see nature as not an enemy or something to be tamed or a tool for his own delight, but a living system of which he was a part, just as much as any other animal, or any other human being.  Sustainability seems to rest on some such set of insights.  We are dependent on nature and we are a part of nature.   Sustainability does not demand that we cease using the resources of nature to meet our needs.  What it does demand is that we assess our “needs” in light of the resources of nature.  It demands that we think about others’ needs before we think about our wants.  It demands that we attend to our whole way of life with a view to being members of the community of life, rather than as masters of it.

Those are some of my thoughts on this expansive topic.  I think we need to continue to discuss sustainability.  We need to educate ourselves about it, and others as well.  It is what the bible asks us to do in Genesis when, in the original Hebrew language, we are asked to “cultivate” the earth.  The long standing translation of the Hebrew as “dominate” is part of the problem that sustainability means to address.  I invite you to engage in the work of sustainability, and you can begin on  Sunday, February 26^th, in Camden from 2-5PM.  See the second announcement below for more details or visit this website.

I wish you a blessed winter, one and all.

Sincerely,

Mark Doorley, Ph.D.

President, The Center for Environmental Transformation

www.camdencenterfortransformation.org

NEWS and NOTES

1.       Monthly Work Day:  Spring is rushing upon us, believe it or not!  Join us on Saturday, March 3^rd, in Eve’s Garden where we are preparing the ground, as well as heirloom seedlings in the greenhouse.  Please contact Andrea at aferich@gmail.com if you intend to come. Bring work gloves, as well as your own drinking water.

2.      FEBRUARY 26^TH:   The Center for Environmental Transformation, as well as other regional organizations, is co-sponsoring an afternoon of conversation about the topic of diversity in the sustainability movement. A panel of presenters will share their insights on this topic, but the meat of the gathering will be the small group discussion that will follow.  The event lasts from 2-5PM.  It will be held at the Urban Promise Sanctuary, at 3700 Rudderow Street in Pennsauken.  YOU MUST REGISTER.  Visit this website for more information.

3.      On Friday, February 17^th, tomorrow, Sacred Heart Church, the source of our inspiration for this work, is hosting an evening of prayer and reflection for people in recovery and their families.  The event begins at 7PM.  This is on the corner of Ferry Ave. & S. Broadway in Camden.  It is not an event about the environment, but it is certainly about the hope of transformation, which is central to our work.  Please pass this on to your friends and family.  All are welcome!

4.      A HAIKU OPPORTUNITY:  The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association is hosting a world reknown haiku writer on March 3, 2012 in Waterfront South in Camden, NJ.  See the attached flier for information on this event.  Consider coming out for the opportunity to discover your haiku voice.

5.      Like us on Facebook, and join our group.  Invite your friends to join us as well.  Please use our Facebook page to let us know about interesting things you’ve read, great websites you’ve found, and activities that might interest the entire group.

6.      Help us spread the word about the Center by forwarding this email to those you think might be interested.  If they would like to be on this distribution list, they can email their contact information to info@camdencenterfortransformation.org

7.      The 2012 Capital Campaign is well under way.  We are still working to raise the funds to replace all the windows on the Center, to make it more energy efficient.  We also have plans for a beautiful new porch on the side of the building, as well as a new entrance on Ferry Ave.  We cannot do any of that without your generous support.  Consider making a contribution to our capital campaign. Send a check payable to “The Center for Transformation” to 1729 Ferry Ave., Camden, NJ 08104.

CSA Sign-ups! (Community Supported Agriculture)

The time has come... its time to sign-up for the CSA that we are hosting in collaboration with Greensgrow Farm here in Waterfront South at our Youth-led Farmers Market just off the corner of Broadway & Ferry in Camden.

Fridays 4-7pm, May-November

(please e-mail aferich@gmail.com for fliers, i'd also love to come share with your group)

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!!

sign-up here
Here's some more details, please be sure you read to know the details. 

If you'd like to know more about what a CSA is, and why it supports the local economy of Camden, and farmers from all over the region here's a little more info. Basically you pay money upfront to become a member of the community that comes to pick-up produce:

Greensgrow CSA in Camden

Community Supported Agriculture.

Did you know that the average American dinner has traveled 1,700 miles from the farm to the dinner table? Want to eat healthy fruits and vegetables from within a 150 mile radius? Then considering joining the Waterfront South CSA. What is CSA?- It stands for Community Supported Agriculture and has become an innovative model in sustainable agriculture. When a group of people join as members they come every week to the farmstand to pick up their share of what was grown by local farmers. The fruits, vegetables, and a protein are in your share every week. This helps the farmers to stay connected with you, the consumer, throughout the growing season. In the share each week, members, will receive a seasonal assortment of six to eight locally grown, fresh vegetables, and two types of fruits from a local orchard, a locally made cheese, and the choice of another dairy/protein option: yogurt, butter, one dozen eggs, seitan or tofu. In the share throughout the season, sometimes you’ll receive a variety of locally prepared foods like a loaf of fresh baked bread, apple cider, honey, fresh pasta, or dips and sauces all produced locally. Members can choose to receive a full share or a half share, which they pick once a week or every other week. Some smaller families have chosen to join with their neighbors, sharing a full or half share.

An example share of a week in August will include:

-12 dozen organic eggs

-one piece swiss

5 oz. organic spring mix

1 bunch parsley

-2 lbs. peaches

2 red bell peppers

2 lbs. tomatoes

2 lbs squash

2 lb. red potatoes

1 sugar baby watermelon

2 slicing cucumbers

for the weekly cost of $32.30/ week

Why in Camden?

The CSA will take place at the Center For Environmental Transformation at Broadway and Ferry every Friday from May- November at the Waterfront South Farmers Market. Through hosting the CSA the Center and Greensgrow will continue to be able to make healthy food accessible at an affordable cost to all Camden residents in 8 different neighborhoods. The Center’s Farmstand is youth lead, growing over 2,000 pounds of organic heirloom produce each year, in a city with only one grocery store. Your support of this CSA and Farmstand help to build the local economy in Camden as well supporting a wide variety of local farmers within a 150 mile radius.

The details:

CLick the LiNK!!

http://www.greensgrow.org/farm/modules/liaise/index.php?form_id=20