tanya-you go! i'm so excited to follow your journey as an urban farmer. peace.

I live in Louisville, Kentucky--I'm a landscape and vegetable gardener and reading teacher and I've been interested in getting something like this started here. I was thrilled to learn about your project and also about a project here in my own city that assists immigrants from all over the world by letting them grow food in a community garden. It eases some of the alienation and homesickness people feel in a foreign land if they can do something familiar and sustaining like grow their own food that they're used to! Also the teens got together and built a beautiful cistern--kids from lands which may have been at war--and now they are very close. Gardening only seems small. It's never small! When we garden, we participate with God in creation! Blessings on your wonderful project(s)!

Tanya, You are an inspiration to the rest of us to get up off our butts!! Keep going girl! Also, are you going to be near Boston/Cambridge, MA at all this summer? I am working at a summer ecology camp and I think your work and story would make a positive impression/impact on the teens.

What a story! Can't wait to see you draw on your amazing experiences/leadership to help us change America and the World. John

Tanya, you are one cool MOM (mothers on the move!) See, I'm already learning from you!

We're wicked excited to have you here on Changents, and as always...gimme a holla if you need anything at all :)

-Eleanor