Thursday's Assignment

What do you think are some of the challenges of starting a garden in the middle of a city? What are the blessings? Jot down and share your list of pros and cons with a partner.

Here are your tasks:

1. Take notes on this short video clip: 15:29 - 16:14. Compare your notes with a partner's. Then make a transcript of yours.
2. Take notes on this video and share the top 3 secrets on chirbit/youtube. Are your choices the same as your partner’s. Leave your comments on your classmates’ blogs.
3. BONUS ACTIVITY! It’s 3 p.m., and you ring up Oriole Community Garden about their Youth Leadership program for your kids. You also want to know how to register for their monthly potluck. With a partner, write a phone dialogue of 10 or 12 lines, and present it to the class and then on Chirbit/Youtube.

Transcript:

Another important thing that nobody has mentioned here yet, surprisingly, is a few months ago at one of our court root (?) meetings we agreed we wanted to centre the entire STI effort around one central issue. And the issue we chose was food because it's something that impacts everything, you know, every aspect of transition, every aspect of life, whether it's health, which is what I'm interested in the most, whether it's transportation, whether it's energy, whether it's housing, everything! Food occupies a part of that, and all of those things have a relationship with food. So that was the one thing we decided we would focus our efforts on, centre our efforts around, because it's so important. And this again is a very central part of it.