Lettuce beat crime plus NPR Seed Lending library event Aug. 20th come grow the local food movement.

At New Port Richey Library 5939 Main St. New Port Richey FL.

Join with your Community ~ Tues, Aug. 20 at 11AM
for the launch of NPR Library’s Seed Exchange and the City’s Community Garden Program.
This is a unique opportunity for the New Port Richey Community to be part of history as together we initiate sustainability projects that are models for the state of Florida.

Check out Seeds at Your NPR Public Library and Start your Own Community Garden!

The library’s seed exchange, one of a kind within our watershed, promotes the concept of growing your own healthy, affordable food, harvesting seeds, and sharing with others.

The New Port Richey Community Garden Project, based on the City’s new urban agriculture ordinance, encourages the use of vacant lots for gardening by local residents.Together, these two initiatives spur ecological awareness, encourage local food production, and inspire community involvement.

The event begins at 11AM at the New Port Richey Public Library where Tasty Tuesday, a weekly organic farmers’ market held in the library courtyard, will also be taking place.

You’ll hear from community leaders about how to: establish your community garden, check out heirloom seeds at Your NPR Public Library, participate in free gardening workshops and enjoy an upcoming environmental film series.

At 12PM, see the film “Urban Roots,” a documentary on how urban agriculture revitalized the depressed communities and spirits in Detroit.

Lettuce Beat Crime
August 20th 7pm (please be aware of the time we had given out the wrong time of 6pm)
5919 Main St., New Port Richey, Florida

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We are calling out our co-op community! “Rally the Troops!” Every volunteer who comes out to represent the co-op will get a free co-op button. Support the co-op by attending the August 20th Vox Pop for City of New Port Richey’s council meeting. Our co-op will be vox poping about our plan to grow community gardens througout the Suncoast/Nature coast area and our demonstration gardens at Kinship Garden and Peace Learning garden. We have a plan to show how grassroots mobilization we can Lettuce have peace in our community !

Stay for the duration of the City council meeting to learn about our city’s Environmental committee who will be going over how the past year they have been promoting the development of an Ordinance to allow community gardens in New Port Richey as well as a Free seed lending library located at the New Port Richey library. Support the Environmental board of your city’s plan to bring community gardens.

We want to show the city how together we can cooperate to transform the landscapes into edible landscapes that we can cooperatively work and benefit from lower of crime, production of local food, and a renewal of community civic spirit and pride in New Port Richey. Lettuce have peace!

Scientific studies show that crime decreases in neighborhoods as the amount of green space increases and that vegetation has been seen to alleviate mental fatigue, one of the precursors to violent behavior (Kuo and Sullivan, 2001). • Community gardening is recognized by many police departments as an effective community crime prevention strategy. “In Philadelphia, burglaries and thefts in one precinct dropped by 90 percent after police helped residents clean up vacant lots and plant gardens” (“Healing America’s cities” p. 5-6, as cited in Englander, 2001). From: http://www.communitygarden.org/docs/learn/articles/multiple_benefits.pdf