RT @nick_routledge: @NatureSchoolSU @aquinasheard23 That's splendidly avant-garde! Was it a national first, I wonder? FNL certainly made a mark when we picked up a $10K grant from the city to provide free PDC training to the town's poor. In so many urban-biodynamic-permacultural ways, Heather and the collective broke new ground.
4/ We hosted free 'Permaculture Design Certificate' training. Everywhere, the verges between road and sidewalk were put to use. We borrowed homeowner ground. Artful gardening propagandists, we were early to the web, too. Soon, FNL blossomed into a global movement. Then, a book.
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Copy of Heather Jo Flores' book, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community
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Garden theater for adults and children.
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Copies of various zines we published.
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Art shows, music gatherings, and vaudeville and circus events were a constant theme in our outreach, fundraising and community-building efforts. Here, a poster advertising an event at our local pub-venue.