Yesterday, I visited the Dekalb Farmer’s Market where I love to get all of my organic fruits and veggies when the small farmer’s markets are not yet open for Spring. I thought I would highlight a few of the things I picked up…many of them new to me!
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Stacking cinder blocks into the wheel barrow to build the new raised beds
In researching local food and urban gardens in Atlanta, I came across a group called Crop Mob – Atlanta who organizes volunteer events at local farms in the Atlanta area. The purpose of Crop Mob is to allow wanna-be farmers get experience working on local farms and learning more about how food is produced and also create a ‘mob’ of volunteers to help our local farmers.
I have wanted to learn more about urban gardening, organic farming, and gardening in general. I think it is so important that we know what we are putting in our bodies as fuel and, the majority of the time, I don’t think we even consider how our food got to where it is when we eat. After reading a lot about industrial agriculture, GMOs, factory farms, and the like, I know I want to learn more about sustainable agriculture and local, organic farming and help educate others on what they are putting into their body.
This Saturday, I went to Patchwork City Farms where I met founders and farmers Jamila and Ceci. Patchwork City Farms is on a plot of land next to Brown Middle School in the Westend area. Jamila and Ceci have a commercial business and also have an area for the middle school students to learn and grow produce. They were so welcoming and helpful in guiding us to build 4 raised beds for the Spring crops. Although rain was impending, it turned out to be a perfect day and a lot of hard work! We started out putting down a layer of mulch to kill the grass where we were building our beds. After the layer of mulch, we started pulling up the cinder blocks from the raised beds from last year. And, what did we find!?
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Hi Everyone! If you follow my facebook page (www.facebook.com/amyjobeaver) you probably noticed a post at the end of 2011 about beginning a course with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I am studying with IIN to learn all of the many dietary theories and learn to be a health coach. I chose IIN because they take a holistic approach to health. So often we worry about what we eat (how much fat is in that? should I eat low-fat? Are carbs bad? Do I have to cut out ALL sweets?) which is important, but there is so much more to living a healthy life than what we eat. IIN coined the phrase “Primary Foods” which are your physical activity, relationships, career, and spirituality. All of these things can play a role in your health (and a big role in what you eat)!
The course is one year long and began in January. Ever since I began, my creative juices been flowing with ideas on how I can make a difference to help people live a healthy, happy life! I have gone through ups and downs with my eating, workouts, stress, relationships, and more and now have realized what a big role they play in my choices.
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