{"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\u2026between participating in a mass tree planting and touring the Wilson Street Urban Farm, I couldn\u2019t help but to feel energized about the neighborhood.\u00a0 (My muscles still hurt\u2026)<\/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\u2019s to be dotted and t\u2019s to be crossed over the next week or so, but everything is looking like it is going to be a go\u2026awesome.\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\u2026<\/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\u2019 efforts.\u00a0 That is the beauty of the internet\u2026it allowed for immediate action in helping take up the cause.\u00a0 This is something that wasn\u2019t even possible ten years ago\u2026the internet is a vehicle to give people like you and me a voice and the power to connect with others like nothing else in history.<\/p>\n<p>ALIVE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[nggallery id=31] (click on images for full view) Saturday was one of those B-F days I love\u2026between participating in a mass tree planting and 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