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| Meg |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 08:15:18 AM
Woohoo! Check out page 92 in the May 2008 issue of Country Living. Moscow, Idaho’s Amy Grey was the Grand Prize Winner in their Comfort Contest that honors exemplary individuals who have made a difference in their communities. Amy’s project will get a $5,000 check!!!
Amy’s “Backyard Harvest Project” facilitates the sharing of crop surpluses by picking up and then delivering locally grown fruits and vegetables to neighborhood food banks. Amy, a freelance graphic designer, wife, and mother of two boys, said, “It all started when I mistakenly planted 200 heads of lettuce in my first garden.”
The “Backyard Harvest Project” is a project of the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute, the organization that my mother, MaryJane, founded and directed for four years when I was a wee one. I remember that era in our lives very well. My brother and I filled many a coloring book during Mom’s many meetings creating what is today a thriving environmental organization that has impacted our little town in a million different positive ways. PCEI turns 22 this year!!!! Way to grow MOM and a big, big, big WAY TO GROW to Amy of Moscow!
PCEI (www.pcei.org) is a model organization for any community. Check out their website and then consider starting one in your own home town. With 13 people on staff, PCEI is home to an eight-acre Nature and Learning Center (complete with a living roof, geo-web retaining walls, and a straw bale bicycle pavilion) and is our local hub for everything “people, place, and community.” (Our own Sunny even has a COB wall there that she and her students built during one of our Pay Dirt Farm School classes last year.)
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
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| Rebekka Mae |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 6:52:46 PM
Woohoo Amy!!!!
I was not surprised at all to see her smiling face in the magazine this month. She is such an awesome gardener and her family is beautiful. So many incredible projects have stemmed from PCEI that it is wonderful to see one of them highlighted and financially awarded. Sunny- you can plan a cob exhibition at my house next, the city is putting a sidewalk in our front yard this summer and we will need something welcoming at the new entrance to our yard and garden!
Some seed you planted Mary Jane;)
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 6:33:47 PM
meggie .. thanks for the thumbs up! i no longer subscribe to country living .. but will surely go look for this issue.
i just returned from town where i am on the Board of our Green [censored]y, Kentucky Family and Consumer Sciences Council. We were planning our Calendar of Events, Classes, Demonstrations, Seminars, etc. We 'brain-stormed' identifying community issues and programs for both 'fun' and 'formal' educational programs that will contribute to the county's social, envionmental and economic development.
There are so many areas of need in rural communities .. and providing funds and food for our county foodbank was at the top of the list and much discussed. I will get this article and share it at our next meeting.
Thanks for telling us about it. xo, frannie
how's that sweetie-pa-tootie stella jane? i can hardly wait for our newest little angel-pie due early to mid-june!
xo
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| electricdunce |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 2:54:44 PM
That is wonderful news. It makes such a difference to know how many good people are out "there" making a real effort to help people. Bravo! karin
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| chessie |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 12:02:50 PM
I saw that article and somehow assumed MaryJane and all the farmerettes were involved. Good to know the back story. Thanks Meg.
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 11:00:10 AM
I have that issue and loved the article they did on Amy. What a wonderful thing she is doing. I wondered if you knew her as well. Yay for Amy!!
Karin
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 10:02:16 AM
Wonderful! PCEI really is a great organization and it has become a goal of mine to do just that Meg- help create another similar organization when Doug and I get to Montana. Thanks to the information about the article- It will be a great read!
Alee
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| Mountain Girl |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 08:36:53 AM
I saw the article about Amy but have been so busy with my sons who are here visiting from out of town that forgot to post about it. Congratulations! JoAnn |
| mima |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 08:36:48 AM
I SAW that and I thoght "gee.. I wonder if Maryjane knows her!!!  congrats and love!
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| Firemama |
Posted - Apr 15 2008 : 08:22:50 AM
Meg, it sounds like an awesome article. Thank you for the heads up
Mama to 2
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