The Green Effect

An Urban Agriculture and Community Gardening project in South East Raleigh. Planting vegetable gardens and flowers in communities with limited access.

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Elias the artist making a sign for one of our community gardens

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Cutting wood to build water catchment structures!

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Morning cup of compost

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Food waste finds new life as compost!

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Before and after of the Coleman street community garden! Pulled up the old crops and planted cucumbers, beans, and sunflowers!

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Pulling up some carrots to give out to the neighborhood

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"If we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents and to live now, as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." [Howard Zinn]

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Maurice and his son working hard- taking weeds to the compost bin

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Building rows at the Martin street garden

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Travis planting tomatoes at the Martin street garden

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Check out our most recent video about what we're up to!

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True urban ag- digging up a bumper. At least we have a name for the garden: The Bumper Crop!

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Gardening is art! Digging the rings of Saturn into our new space.

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Drilling holes in our newly tilled field- expanding our growing space exponentially!