Come play in the garden! We'll be tidying beds, painting benches, and making decisions about the community garden project for next year. All welcome!

Our 3rd Saturday drop-in movie class is open and friendly! This month:

“The Vanishing of Bees”

Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries, and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of every three bites of food on our tables.

The Vanishing of Bees follows commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill pollination contracts across the U.S. The film explores the struggles they face as the two friends plead their case on Capital Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees

Quilt Field Trip? Let us know if you are interested in a group tour of the Lake Apopka Memorial Quilt! (We've worked several times with the Farmworker Association to bring the Apopka area into greater awareness.

Support Farmworkers! Recently, Governor Rick Scott used his line-item veto to cut $500,000 from the state budget that would have helped the former farmworkers on Lake Apopka and the other people in their community. After years of being neglected, ignored, and 'invisible', this veto of such a small amount of money is a deep disappointment. We are asking our friends and allies to send letters to Governor Scott in opposition to his veto and in support of the farmworkers who fed us all and who paid for it with their health. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for template letter.