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Northwest teens are making a difference

Alaska Airlines, Horizon Edition, Scott Driscoll, December 2011

This past spring, Flower Share was cultivated on a 10-acre farm outside Missoula, Montana. Nestled in the Rattlesnake Valley and offering a fantasitc view of Stuart Peak, the farm is a partnership between a nonprofit agency, Garden City Harvest, and the University of Montana's Environmental Studies program. Read more (flip to page 58!). . .

Garden City Harvest's mobile garden

KPAX, Robin O'Day, 8/28/2011

MISSOULA- Garden City Harvest has been visiting low income senior citizen housing developments to sell local and organic produce at a fraction of the store price since 2008. Read more. . .

	Western Montana Youth Start a Budding Business KPAX, Robin O'Day, 8/24/2011 MISSOULA- Western Montana youth have been getting their hands dirty for years at the Garden City Harvest Farms, but this year they started a business called the Flower Share Project. Read more. . .
photo by Tom Bauer	Paxson Elementary School's new garden in bloom Missoulian, Lindsey Galipeau, 7/22/2011 The brown-eyed Susans are blooming. The peas are poking out of the soil. The giant sunflowers are growing toward the sky. Paxson Elementary School's new garden is taking root and blossoming. Read more. . .
	Farm Partnership Reaps Crops/Agricultural Knowledge KECI, Kevin Maki, 7/22/2011 MISSOULA, Mont. -- Kids at risk are getting therapy in the fields. They're learning how to farm. The North Avenue Youth Farm is celebrating its second anniversary in Missoula. It's part of the non-profit Garden City Harvest. Read more. . .
	Blog: Facing Hunger in America, PEAS Farm Carolyn Pesheck and Betsy Comstock, 7/7/2011 Approach Missoula, Montana, from the east and you experience the thrill of watching the mountains emerge in the west as you cross the high, open plains. This thriving city of about 67,000 on the banks of the Clark Fork River is the home of the University of Montana. From their campus, travel 2.5 miles or so north into the beautiful Rattlesnake Valley. See lovely level fields ringed by even lovelier mountains. Read more. . .
	Montana Today KECI/NBC Montana, Monte Turner, 5/18/2011 Greg Price, Manager of River Road Neighborhood Farm and Community Garden, talks about Community Supported Agricultural with Garden City Harvest. Watch the video. . .

Jean Zosel to Direct Garden City Harvest

Jean Zosel joined Garden City Harvest as the new Executive Director on April 1st, 2011.

"I'm increasingly interested in work that feeds my soul and in giving something of significance back to the community," Zosel said of her desire to join Garden City Harvest.

Zosel left her position as Station Manager for KECI TV, where she has worked for 31 years, and where she is a well respected manager and leader. . . Read More.

	Local farming gurus from Garden City Harvest win national awards Missoulian, Keila Spaller, December 14, 2010 Garden City Harvest is tying the ribbon on a banner year for its local food and farmers. For the first time, the Montana Wildlife Federation honored an agriculturalist with its Don Aldrich Conservationist of the Year award. It went to Josh Slotnick, a Garden City Harvest founder. . . Read more.
	EATING MISSOULA: Community, food can change lives Missoulian, Lori Grannis, 10/29/2010 When she was living on the streets of Seattle, Hannah Ellison says she rarely came across food, let alone ate it. Instead, she injected heroin and methamphetamine, smoked PCP, and hung with a rough crowd that sent her spiraling toward far too many near-death experiences. After finding her way into an early incarnation of Garden City Harvest's Youth Harvest Program at the PEAS Farm. . . Read more.
	Missoula City Council considers gardens, housing for vacant lots Missoulian, Keila Szpaller, 10/27/2010 Missoula owns some mostly vacant land in the city proper that's got big promise - for affordable homes and gardens. The nine parcels amount to some 2.35 acres, according to an Office of Planning and Grants inventory. The idea that's in the slow cooker? "Times are tough. The city's got some land. Is there something the city can do with this land?" Said OPG's. . . Read more.
	Meadow Hill students get apprenticeship in gardening Missoulian, by Jamie Kelly, photos by Linda Thompson, 10/25/2010 Most of the plots are empty now, gardeners having girded the land for winter with a fresh layer of manured topsoil and a protective layer of hay. But the Meadow Hill Community Garden still has life left, three 15-by-15-foot squares of ground yielding carrots and kale and beets and other gifts of the earth. . . Read more.
	Missoula author shares 'How to Grow a Garden City' Missoulian, by Keila Szpaller, 10/24/2010 The book "Growing a Garden City" opens with a sobering statistic: "In January 2010, news came out that one in four American families experienced at least one day in 2009 when they were too short of money to buy the food they needed."Missoula, though, is learning to feed itself. Using our farmers, food lovers, teachers, families and cooks as guides. . . Read more.
	Honeycombs at PEAS Farm festival a sweet addition to traditional pumpkin party Missoulian, by Rob Chaney, photos by Michael Gallacher, 10/16/2010 Pumpkins or ponies? What a choice on a beautiful fall Saturday. It just about stumped little Eli Onstad, who had the makings for a great Halloween jack-o'-lantern (a little too big for a 2-year-old to budge) at hand, when he spied someone taking a pony ride at the far end of the PEAS Farm. And in between, there were apples to bob for, a bluegrass band to dance to and a cider press to crank. Eli wound up spinning the cider crank. . . Read more.
	Taking root; Growing a Garden City digs through Missoula's local food system Missoula Independent, by Erika Fredrickson, photo by Chad Harder, 10/07/2010 It was only a year ago that conservative bloggers and critics in the crowd branded President Obama an elitist for talking about arugula during an appearance in Iowa. To those aware of the local food system, the misguided criticism revealed a clear disconnect; Iowa turns out to be a state full of arugula farms, and the common person wasn't familiar with the vegetable. Perhaps that's changing. . . Read more.
	Growing a Garden City: An Excerpt Newly released book examines Missoula through people, photographs and food. NewWest, by Jeremy N. Smith, photo by Chad Harder, 10/07/2010 Every year in this country, approximately 500,000 young people enter detention centers. Not Hannah Ellison: “I was never in the court system. Because I never got caught.” Ellison is one of 15 main characters of the new book “Growing a Garden City.” Combing color photographs, personal narratives, and how-to sections, Growing a Garden City shares the stories behind one of the country’s most remote yet. . . Read more.
	Food: Tester safeguards small farms Missoula Independent, Matthew Frank, photo by Chad Harder, 09/30/2010 A slew of food contamination outbreaks prompted Congress to write the proposed Food Safety Modernization Act. The bill as currently written, though, would target not only the factory farms that have sent tainted eggs, spinach and peanuts to market, but family farms that sell mainly to local communities. . . Read more.
	PEAS Farm teaches Missoula students basics of agriculture Missoulian, Jamie Kelly, 9/29/2010 If this were an Encyclopedia Brown story, it might be titled "The Case of the Bifurcated Carrot." Rattlesnake Elementary second-graders pulled carrot after carrot out of the ground Wednesday morning at the PEAS Farm, big, juicy orange veggies untouched by chemicals and grown in dark, moist, fertile soil. . . Read more.
	Sixth Graders Visit PEAS Farm KECI News/NBC Montana, By Heidi Meili, 09/29/2010 MISSOULA, Mont. -- Missoula sixth graders have a new appreciation for the food that makes it on their tables. Today, 90 students rode their bikes from Washington Middle School to the Garden City Harvest PEAS Farm in the Rattlesnake Valley. . . View more.
	Tester visits PEAS farm to discuss food safety bill amendments Missoulian, by Joe Nickell, photos by 09/24/2010 As harbingers of harvest season gusted in on a cool Rattlesnake Valley wind, Montana Sen. Jon Tester took a moment on Friday afternoon to plant a few last seeds of support for his amendments to Senate Bill 510, the so-called Food Safety Bill. . . Read more.
	Youth Harvest Program Helping Kids Grow; Troubled Teens Learn To Farm KECI News/NBC Montana, by Adam Painter, 09/21/2010 RATTLESNAKE VALLEY, Mont. -- This is how Maxx Fritz describes the surprising place he spent most of this summer, "Probably the last place I would have expected to be honest with you." Maxx got in some trouble in the past. The judge sentenced this 17 year old to work on the PEAS Farm in Missoula for 5 months. . . View more.
	Missoula Author Promoting Local Farm Movement KECI News/NBC Montana, by Adam Painter, 09/20/2010 Rattlesnake Valley, Mont. -- Jeremy Smith's book "Growing A Garden City" reads like a documentary. It tells the stories of 15 individuals around the Missoula area whose lives were transformed by community farms and gardens. "You have 1st graders. You have low income seniors. You have teenagers literally dragged from their home by their father because they're addicted to drugs to Roundup, Montana. They shave their head. They're trying to run away again further, and they end up here at this beautiful farm. . . View more.
	Missoula teens work the farm for a good cause KPAX News, Laura Wilson, 09/10/2010 MISSOULA - A pair of local organizations have teamed up to help grow local food for the community and give teenagers living in group homes some real world experience. Youth Homes and Garden City Harvest held an "open farm" event on Thursday afternoon so that the public could come to see all the hard work that Missoula teens put into a farm. . . Read more.
	Teenagers help turn land behind Missoula's Tom Roy Home into garden Missoulian, Betsy Cohen, photos by Linda Thompson, 09/06/2010 For nearly 30 years, the acre behind the Tom Roy Home on West Central Avenue was an unfriendly field of knapweed. Fenced off and with its very own barn, the space had long been ripe for attention; all it needed were some dedicated hands and a plan. Nicolas Salomon didn't know much about gardening or farming, but the 17-year-old Youth Homes resident was game to learn when his caretakers, an organization that helps grow strong and healthy young people, teamed up with Garden City Harvest, an organization that helps grow nourishing food for the Missoula community. . . Read more.
	Missoula community gardeners help New Orleans Latinos feed the poor, hungry Missoulian, by Betsy Cohen, photos by Michael Gallacher, 09/03/2010 Growing food to feed the hungry makes a lot of sense, but it's one of the hardest things to do in the American urban landscape. For the past two years, Kathia Duran has been trying to grow a tiny public garden in the heart of New Orleans' poorest neighborhoods to feed the many thousands of low-income residents in her Latino community. . . Read more.
	eBay: Bidding on a PEAS pig Missoula Independent, by Matthew Frank, 09/02/2010 On Monday at about 12:45 p.m., eBay notified Julie Baldridge, a retired social worker in Whitefish using the online auction website for the first time, that she placed the winning bid on a pig—one currently noshing on scraps of food at Missoula's PEAS Farm. Baldridge, 53, who grew up on a farm and ranch outside of Havre, has long purchased pork from local farmers, but this was different. . . Read more.
	Slow growing: Louisiana group looks to Missoula farm for guidance Missoula Independent, by Jennifer Savage, 08/12/2010 Kathia Duran has been asking a lot of questions about soil composition, seeds and cover crops during her 12-day stay in Missoula. As she stands in the Northside Community Garden on a recent afternoon, she wants to know who runs it, how much money they make and what their workday looks like? A small crowd of staff and volunteers from Garden City Harvest answer her questions one by one while. . . Read more.
	Urban farming: Gardens, generosity flourishing in city Missoulian, Letter to the Editor by Kristina Swanson, 7/23/2010 We at Garden City Harvest appreciated Greg Martin's article in the July 18 Missoulian about the wonderfully diverse River Road area, and we'd like readers to know about yet another asset to the neighborhood. The River Road Neighborhood Farm and Community Garden is an oasis of color, productivity and friendly bustle, just west of the Russell Street bridge. Read more. . .
	EATING MISSOULA: PEAS Farm piglets teach Missoulian, by Lori Grannis, 05/21/2010 In Big Sky country, there's plenty of room to roam. And, as it happens, there's also room to root. Yards beyond the last cross street on Duncan Drive, PEAS Farm is nurturing six new arrivals. Squirrely piglets that could be cradled across two palms three weeks ago were born mid-April, and are now the size of Dalmatians - only, with much shorter legs and a body composition much more skewed toward. . . Read more.
	EATING MISSOULA: Garden City earns name Missoulian, by Lori Grannis, 03/26/2010 According to the Garden City Harvest Web site, some 90 percent of produce purchased and eaten in our state is shipped in from elsewhere. If that’s true, just how did Missoula earn the moniker “The Garden City?” GCH community outreach director Genevieve Jessop Marsh says the name stems from the area’s rich fruit and vegetable growing heritage. But she says preserving and expanding that effort. . . Read more.

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