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Thursday, March 26, 2009

We Get Press: V4CF's garden action
covered March 24 in the Fresno Bee

The Fresno Bee covered Volunteers For Change-Fresno's community garden "Call to Action" as part of a broader article in its Tuesday, March 24, edition. From the article:

Volunteers toted rakes, hoes and other tools to the West Fresno Health Care Coalition’s existing community garden at Tulare and A streets.

As the only community garden in West Fresno, this project aims to teach young people about self-sufficiency, nutrition, health and community service.

Connie Peterson, a member of Volunteers for Change-Fresno, brought a group of about 35 to work at that garden on Saturday. She’d proposed the project to Volunteers for Change-Fresno, a nonpartisan group of Barack Obama supporters.

“I personally feel that a garden is a small personal change that anyone in our area can make,” she writes in an e-mail.

Want to read more? Here's the full article.

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