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brooke budner and caitlyn galloway
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San Francisco, CA
Brooke Budner is a co-owner of Little City Gardens, an urban food gardener and artist. She has worked extensively in the realm of gardening and food-security activism. In early 2007, Brooke turned a vacant city lot in the Mission District of San Francisco into a thriving vegetable garden, and a year later co-founded Little City Gardens. Previously, she served as the coordinator and manager of the SF Victory Gardens Project Backyard Garden Program. She spent two summers as the garden instructor with The Colima Project, leading San Francisco State University students and town members in a collaborative garden build. Brooke also currently works as the illustrator and artist for The Greenhorns, an advocacy and media organization that supports the national resurgence of young farmers. Trained as a painter and printmaker at the Rhode Island School of Design, and as a farmer at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center as well as on organic farms on both the East and West Coasts, Brooke works to merge the fields of food production and art-making into a reflective and active social practice.
Caitlyn Galloway is co-owner of Little City Gardens. She is also a practicing artist and professional sign painter. She has devoted much of her career to understanding and re-envisioning food systems, both on the East and West Coasts. After graduating with an art degree from UC Santa Barbara in 2003, she served for three years as Department Manager and Board member for the Isla Vista Food Cooperative in Goleta, California, where she helped direct business planning and food purchasing, and from 2005-2007 she lived in New York City where she installed and maintained rooftop gardens and greenroofs. While there, she also volunteered with the non-profit Just Food, helping to connect urban residents with local farmers and local produce, and was an active member of her neighborhood community garden. Caitlyn is excited about combining her passions for farming, art and building community through Little City Gardens' venture in urban agriculture.
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brooke budner and caitlyn galloway
Posted project update #4article and interview
Dear supporters,
We have a new article and interview up today:The article (written by Brooke) is about our motivations and visions for this project. About small business as our activist medium. The interview is about our process so far. Please read, share, discuss, and send thoughts.
We are moving along here in SF, planning for spring (it's coming so soon), sourcing amendments, sketching plans, writing, talking and researching. We are excited and eager for longer days outside, but we are staying focused! Soon enough, our hands will be dirty again!
Caitlyn & Brooke
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brooke budner and caitlyn galloway
Posted project update #3It's happening!
WE DID IT! (YOU DID IT!) Two weeks in, and we have reached our base goal of $15,000! We can't thank you all enough for your pledges, for spreading the word to all of your friends, and for sending us your warmest offers of encouragement. We feel so supported in what we are doing. In the past two weeks, we have learned just how much you all want to see this project succeed. We are incredibly energized for what's in store!
THANK YOU.
And, we still have 75 days to go. If you still have friends that are interested in pledging, there is still time. We have plenty of ways to use additional funds (and plenty of rewards to keep giving)! We've posted an addendum to our business plan here , listing out ways that we will utilize extra funds, should we continue to surpass our goal. So, please feel free to keep spreading the word.
And keep checking back with us to see what we're up to in the garden during our process of expansion. We're thrilled to have such an extended community to share with. (And for now, visit our website to see our second round of heartfelt Thank Yous - for you!)
With so much appreciation,
Caitlyn & Brooke -
brooke budner and caitlyn galloway
Posted project update #2thank you!
We've just posted our first round of appreciations on our blog! We feel so, so supported. Your pledges, emails, and word-spreading have been unbelievable these past few days. Thank you thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.
After weeks of being indoors, writing, planning and number-crunching, we finally made it back out to the garden for a couple of hours yesterday. The calla-lilies and oxalis (two of San Francisco's most noxious winter weeds) were standing so tall and strong throughout the garden - I don't think they missed us!
More from us soon.
C & B
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brooke budner and caitlyn galloway
Posted project update #1wow.
We are stunned. The amount of support, encouragement, kind words, offers of help - and pledges! - we have gotten in just two days is unbelievable. We are so incredibly warmed by the community that has surrounded us and our project so far.
Thank you thank you thank you. Please continue to share the project with your friends and networks, and do keep your feedback and thoughts coming! It's so very appreciated. We're off to a great start.
Caitlyn & Brooke
