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| Press Release APRIL 16, 2007 Read for Seeds Community Planting and Book Sale! Book Sale: 4/23 – 4/29 The FARM Institute invites you to participate in Read for Seeds, an island wide community planting and book sale. Read for Seeds was developed to raise money for our teaching garden and to support efforts to bring fresh local food to The Island Food Pantry (IFP). The book sale begins on Monday, April 23rd and culminates with a community planting on Sunday, April 29th. Books will be sold between 9 am and 5 pm in our horse barn. Those who wish to buy a book and participate in planting may join us on Sunday, April 29, 12 – 2 pm. Everyone is invited to participate in this island wide event. Proceeds from the book sale will support our teaching and production gardens. We are inviting you to help us plant seed potatoes. A portion of our potato crop will be donated to the Island Food Pantry in the fall. Read for Seeds was inspired by a read-a-thon (also called Read for Seeds) led by Gaining Ground in Boston, a non-profit farm that grows food for the hungry. Our goal was to involve children and families in a hands-on agriculture project that would benefit the island community of Martha’s Vineyard. Using The FARM as medium for addressing local hunger issues, we visited 4 island schools (Edgartown, Charter, Tisbury and Montessori) in the month of March to discuss hunger and introduce students to growing food for their community! These students collected hundreds of books to support the Read for Seeds project. During the week of April 23rd (while the book sale is going on) these classes will visit The FARM and plant seed potatoes. In the fall ‘07, participants will be invited to return for a harvest celebration. Please join us and help make this project a success!! If you cannot make it down to The FARM and (or) prefer to make a financial contribution to the project you may do so by sending a check to The FARM Institute, 14 Aero Ave., Edgartown 02539 (Memo: Read for Seeds). Plant a potato! Buy a book! Help The FARM fight island hunger one potato at a time! The FARM Institute is a non profit organization whose mission is to connect the community to the importance of local and sustainable agriculture through the efforts of a diverse working farm. # # # The FARM Institute - Post Office Box 1868 - Edgartown, MA 02539 - (508) 627-7007
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