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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 4, 2010.
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Our heartfelt gratitude, and a thank you on our blog!
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One lovely sticker package (which includes 6 different sticker designs).
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The first issue of Germination, our quarterly zine, plus our lovely sticker package!
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A handcrafted seed packet featuring some of our favorite varieties, plus the first issue of our zine and a sticker package.
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A one-year subscription to our zine (4 issues), plus a silkscreened Little City Gardens print.
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Our entire Greens poster series (set of 3). We're pretty excited about these! Plus, a one-year subscription to our zine (4 issues).
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A handmade postcard mailed to you monthly for six months. We'll tell you, through our own handwriting and drawings, how our farm is coming along! Plus, a one-year subscription to our zine, and our entire Greens poster series (set of 3).
Pledge $750 or more
IF IN SF BAY AREA - Top priority for our Salad CSA waiting list! Plus a subscription to our zine, and our entire Greens poster series. IF NOT IN SF BAY AREA - We'll send you a basket of dried & canned goods featuring ingredients from our farm. Plus a subscription to our zine, and our entire Greens poster series.
Pledge $1,000 or more
IF IN SF BAY AREA - A lovingly prepared garden picnic, for you and one friend! Spend an afternoon talking with us over lunch in the garden. Plus zine subscription, and Greens poster series. IF NOT IN SF BAY AREA - a custom handpainted sign. Choose from a list of messages to be handpainted on wood by Caitlyn (our resident sign painter). Plus zine subscription and Greens poster series.
Pledge $2,500 or more
We will travel to your US city and give you a personal garden consultation or a public presentation about our project and experiences as Urban Farmers to an audience of up to 40 people. If in the Bay Area we will offer you both a personal garden consultation and a public presentation. (Also includes zine subscription and poster series).
Project By
brooke budner and caitlyn galloway
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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.
