{"id":3186,"date":"2009-05-04T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2009-05-04T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:39:49","slug":"planting-trees-and-down-on-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2009\/05\/planting-trees-and-down-on-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting trees and down on the farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"485\" bordercolor=\"#111111\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>[nggallery id=31]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>(click on images for full view)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr style=\"width: 475px; height: 4px; text-align: left;\" size=\"4\" \/>Saturday was one of those B-F days I love&#8230;between participating in a mass tree planting and touring the Wilson Street Urban Farm, I couldn&#8217;t help but to feel energized about the neighborhood.\u00a0 (My muscles still hurt&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>A nice crowd of people showed up to both lend a hand in planting trees on Lombard, Clark, Gibson and Peckham Streets and take a tour of the Wilson Street Urban Farm with Mark and Janice Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>A special shout out to Yuri Hreshchyshyn for putting together the tree planting and\u00a0allowing B-F-A to add a tour of the Wilson Street Urban Farm\u00a0to the back-end of the planting.\u00a0 I think if there is ever a monument erected\u00a0to Yuri in B-F,\u00a0it\u00a0should be of \u00a0him sitting on a backhoe.<\/p>\n<p>If everything progesses for the Stevenses the way it should, work will begin on\u00a0Wilson Street between Broadway and Sycamore\u00a0in the coming months to transform the land into a farm.\u00a0 There are still i&#8217;s to be dotted and t&#8217;s to be crossed over the next week or so, but everything is looking like it is going to be a go&#8230;awesome.\u00a0 BFA will keep you posted as everything develops.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all who came out and lent a hand in\u00a0tree planting and took the tour of the farm.<\/p>\n<p>I justed wanted to add one last thing.\u00a0 The power of the internet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Once the story broke about the Wilson Street Urban Farm, it spread like wildfire across CyberBuffalo and people rallied in support of the Stevenses&#8217; 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