Let's Grow Something Together
#letsgrowsomethingtogether
bit.ly/grow2022formDear Neighbor,
I hope you are doing OK and staying safe. We are off to a late start this year, but it is not too late to plant sunflowers! We have plenty of Autumn Beauty seeds that bloom in the late summer and fall from August to November as long as we have enough days left in the season before the first frost.
The Let's Grow Something Together project encourages neighbors in Cambridge/Somerville to grow sunflowers throughout our neighborhoods and document our journeys.
This movement has engaged hundreds of volunteers who have helped our neighbors plant thousands of sunflowers and we hope to continue to expand the movement. This year, we have moved our project to our affiliated nonprofit, Sustainable Food and Culture. We have two Cambridge high school students Liam and Sidney working with us from the Mayor's program and I am thrilled to have them on board. The Cambridge Plant & Garden Club in collaboration with artist Ekua Holmes, who started the Roxbury Sunflower Project are planting sunflowers in Cambridge for Ukraine this year, so let's support their efforts.
Anyone can participate in this project, children, teens, adults, grandparents, and neighbors with disabilities. Please complete this brief form to let me know how you would like to be involved and please share this form with your neighbors and friends.
We will offer free seed packets stored in recycled paper packets or seedlings (if available). The goal is by late summer/early fall, our neighborhoods will be blooming with amazing towering sunflower trees, to bring so much beauty and joy to our neighbors. We encourage people to chronicle their growing stories and share selfies or family photos of themselves with their sunflowers and using the hashtag #letsgrowsomethingtogether.
Please share this form with neighbors and let’s grow something beautiful together! Connect with us on our Facebook page, so please LIKE and feel free to post on the page here-->
https://www.facebook.com/letsgrowsomethingtogether/Regards,
Nicola Williams
President
Sustainable Food and Culture, Inc.
Past Let's Grow Something Together Collaborating Partners:
* Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
* Cambridge Carnival International, Inc.
* Cambridge City Growers
* Cambridge Naturals
* Cambridge Local First
* Cambridge Volunteer Clearinghouse
* Christ Church of Cambridge
* Colibri Boston
* Darwin's Ltd.
* Green Cambridge
* Groundwork Somerville
* Harvard Square Business Association
* Harvard Square Neighborhood Association
* Herbstalk
* Many Helping Hands 360
* Mothers Out Front, Cambridge
* Porter Square Neighbors Association
* Seeking Spanda
* St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Marblehead
* Sustainable Business Network of MA
* Sustainable Food and Culture, Inc.
* The Williams Agency
* Waltham Fields Community Farms