Author: Jeremy
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Thank you to Hands on Atlanta Volunteers
Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who came out to help on September 10th at the Clarkston Community Center. The plants that were planted are a part of a longer term plan for a Food Forest around the Clarkston Community Center field. Please continue to stay tuned about other urban agriculture developments from the…
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CDF Announces Perennial Agriculture Course
Clarkston Development Fondation is excited to announce a DIY Perennial Agriculture Course starting October 8th. This course will be eight sessions, covering process to practice. We are partnering with the Clarkston Community Center as the venue for this course that seeks to begin to empower the participants to start the process of turning their yards into…
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CDF to Partner with CCC for Hands on Atlanta September 10
For Hands on Atlanta day on September 10th from 8:30-1pm, Clarkston Development Foundation will be coordinating Phase 2 of an Installation at the Clarkston Community Center Urban Orchard. This is a collaboration between the Clarkston Community Center and Hands on Atlanta to build upon the work begun in April 30th, 2011 with the Comcast Cares day.…
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CDF Participates in Kingian Nonviolent Training
On July 29 and 30, 2011, three of CDF’s staff participated in the first Kingian Nonviolent Training event held at the Clarkston Community Center. Over the course of the two days, a group of over 50 people received some foundational training on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s methodology of nonviolent conflict reconciliation. The Clarkston Community Center…
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CDF June 2011 Meeting Summary Information
As promised, we are getting this information to you within about a week of our meeting on June 15. At the two meetings, I outlined the four major initiatives that our foundation has been developing with your support and the support of many others in and outside our community. These four initiatives are: Early Learning…
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CDF Launches Perennial Plant Recognition Project
At World Refugee Day at the Clarkston Community Center, CDF launched a plant recognition project with the aim of assembling an experiential list of edible plants according to country of origin. We are gathering information on residents of Clarkstons’ knowledge and experience of perennial, food producing plants in both this country and in other countries. We…
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CDF update meeting & Community Conversations
On June 1 and June 15 at the Clarkston Community Center, Clarkston Development Foundation gave a brief update about their current work in the Clarkston community and led each group in a visioning process that encouraged both residents and other people invested in the Clarkston community to share some of their hopes and dreams with…
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Leadership and Community-Development Camp
Clarkston Development Foundation is excited to announce that June 10 & 13, 2011 marks the beginning of the camp mentioned below and made possible by the collaboration of the following organizations: The Global Village School | Clarkston Development Foundation | Clarkston Community Center Joint Summer Program 2011: Leadership and community-development camp In summer…
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Thank you for a great Comcast Cares Day in Clarkston
CDF wants to thank all the volunteers who helped install the beginning of a food forest/urban orchard on the Clarkston Community Center’s field. They helped put in over 30+ fruit and nut trees as well as berry bushes and fruiting vines. Another sustainable feature of the work today included the work done on installing a…
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CDF becomes official Parents as Teachers Affiliate
We are excited to join with Parents as Teachers as we work together in Clarkston.