The Spring 2021 BLITZ is coming!
Greetings, All-
It’s close to Spring and we can hear those growing urges starting, especially on a beautiful day like today! We have so much fun stuff to share, so let’s get started!
Yes, it’s BLITZ time again! We are open for orders for both paid and scholarship gardens. Tell your friends, spread the word on Facebook, and help us get the word out so those who want to get a garden can!
We’d also really appreciate you gathering a COVID Safe Bubble Team (or your COVID Safe Self) and signing up to help us with the installations. The bulk of them will be the weekend of March 26-28, with straggler gardens completing until the 31 st .
If you’ve missed out on the fun, here’s a peek at what you will experience when you join us this year! Click on the video’s image to watch a composite of the Spring and Late Summer BLITZs, then volunteer here.
Other BLITZ Needs?
We need a staging area in Oroville. If you know of someone who can donate (or is willing to give a discount on renting) about ¼ acre of land for a week, that would be GREAT! We are polite, careful of the land and will be providing gardens for folks! Please ask around and let me know who I can reach out to. We were lucky to have someone with a tractor and bucket help out in Paradise last year and are fully smitten. So if you know anyone that has that capacity, please send them our way so we can use all the money we raise to get more Garden Scholarships for families that need them.
Which also leads to donations- please support Garden Scholarship Boxes by going here and clicking on the BLITZ box so we direct the money there! Or buy a box or two for others and know that you’ll be contributing to a family’s health right here in Butte County.
Is Farmers Market Food Really More Expensive?
We keep hearing this and wondered if it is true or an Urban Myth, so Pamm Larry decided to do an informal look at the state of food costs on Feb. 3, 2021 at the market, TJs and Grocery Outlet. Read the blog and catch up on other newsletters you might have missed here.
Are you a writer? We’d love to have more local articles to share! Since we are a “network” we invite YOU to submit your personal blogs, vlogs, articles, stories that are about any aspect of local food that is in alignment with our mission.
Work Days At The Gardens
We definitely need rain but are happy it’s stopping for a bit so we can get back in the gardens! This Sunday we’ll be digging up, cleaning up, doing some planting and getting ready to beautify Vecino Victory Garden and Kentfield Garden.
Join us at 1535 Laburnum from 9-noon, and at Kentfield from 10:30 to noon (or stay longer) at 1125 Kentfield Rd. Get out, dig dirt, feel better. And bring your compost by both gardens. The Vecino Community Compost Center is going to launch big time soon, but it’s open now. So bring your buckets by during work hours above and dump it in the bins, cuz there’s no such thing as waste in nature.
The Seeds Are Coming
Don’t forget about the ongoing virtual Butte County Seed and Scion Swap on Facebook. You can find each other and get seeds out there. You can also pick some up at the Grub Grown Nursery booth at the Saturday Farmers Market and we’ll be bringing mountain appropriate seeds up soon via the Farmers Marketmobile. Not sure if you noticed yet, but seeds are in short supply this year. Best to get them now.
And…we have been able to order some seeds for an Homage To The Three Sisters combo pack. We’ll have them in Tiny Libraries within a few weeks. In the meantime, the Seed Team is gearing up to get other seeds in them as soon as we can. Watch for the announcement that we are back up and making deliveries. Want to join the Seed Team? Reply to this email and we’ll include you in the festivities.
Glean Team and #freethefood
It’s time to take more food security back into our own grassroots hands! We have this fun and crazy idea of putting these kinds of stands up around Butte County so our community can share our abundance with each other.
Want to join in the fun? Email me back. This is in the early stages so it’s a great opportunity to put your creative and artistic ideas and talents to work while creating a fun and vital program.
It also interfaces with our Glean Team. We’ve been picking fruit on private land (with permission, of course) and want to create more of a network so that the food we have does not end up rotting on the ground. Want to join the Glean Team? Click reply and let’s talk!
Farmers Marketmobile
Farmers Market food brought closer to you…we are up and running in both Magalia and Concow! Join us Thursdays during our new hours- 2PM-6PM at the Magalia Community Park and Saturdays from 2:30ish to 5ish at the Pines Yankee Hill Hardware Store serving the Concow area.
Keep tuned for our Famers Marketmobile Angel Club and join in a creative and fun way to connect Gracious Angel Donors with Grateful Families who need some help being able to eat healthy, locally grown food. Want to be a one of the cool kids in the club? Learn more here.
BCLFN Interview on KZFR, Tuesday, 2/9 at 6PM
Listen to “North State Give and Take,” a new show in KZFR. 90.1, hosted by Bobby Tryon. She’s highlighting all the amazing work that’s going on in our area. On Feb. 9 at 6PM she’ll talk with Pamm Larry about the BCLFN, food security and food sovereignty and all the fun that is to be had when we create a community that grows food together.
That’s it for now….a great start to a much better year. Just sayin’.
Pamm and the Gang at BCLFN
