Lore
Davana, Seanice, Vanessa
What is FRESH staff members?
1 way that FRESH connects with the community?
What is:
- events - distribution table - community workdays - youth programming - people's budget work?
13-25
What is the age range of our youth programming?
A subscription for a (weekly or biweekly) box of FRESH grown produce that is paid for at the beginning of the growing season.
What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?
New London's Mascot (and why?)
What is a whale (because New London was a whaling city)?
In 2004, New London was forever changed by this milestone
What is the founding of FRESH?
One annual event that FRESH holds
What is:
- youth block party - plant sale - garden walk fundraiser - annual meeting - pea planting party - garlic planting party
Happening in each season of youth programming.
Summer: What is harvest and distribution?
Fall: What is fieldtrips, seed saving, and workshops?
Winter: What are open youth education sessions?
Spring: What is waking up the garden and planting out our crops for the year?
The names of all FRESH maintained sites
What is Mercer, Cottage Snack Beds, McDonald, Ledyard, LLHD, and Cottage St. Urban Farm
Union St. and CMC are planted out but not maintained.
The size of New London in square miles.
What is 52 miles?
The mission of FRESH.
What is "building momentum for systemic change within the local food system in New London through urban agriculture, youth empowerment, and community connection?"
Fiddleheads, Community Meal Center, Hearing Youth Voices, thePLACE, etc.
Who are FRESH's community partners?
What is the theme of the summer program?
3 of the cultural crops we grow and the culture they pertain to.
Varied*
The only (documented) successful slave revolt ship that was towed into the New London harbour
What is La Amistad?
This site used to be a wallball court and was previously all concrete.
What is Mercer Garden?
The process of gathering community input about agriculture in the City of New London and how FRESH's work and other green spaces should be protected by our city government!
What is FRESH's 5 Year Food Justice Plan.
Who are other orgs in the area doing similar work with youth?
The construction, placement, and filling of raised garden beds in the homes of New London residents.
A coalition working with New London residents and the city government to ensure that our city budget reflects the needs of the people.
Who is the People's Budget Coalition?
This was the site of a tragic overdose in the community before it was transformed into a garden.
What is McDonald Park Garden?
For people to be in space together while connecting with each other and the land.
What is the function of community workdays?
The structure of the summer program by day:
What is - Wednesday rotations, Thursday harvests, Friday workshops, Saturday workdays?
A new plant we are growing this year to experiment with making blue dye.
What is indigo?
The year New London was founded.
What is 1646?