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    Mary's Garden
    Mary's Garden
    Mary's Garden
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    Mary's Garden

    By Marta, Marika Love, Peggy deLeers and Ted Stanton

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    Mary's Garden is the story of a little girl who wants a garden in her
    yard. Her garden grows so well it gives more food than her family and
    friends can eat. She is aware that there are poor people in her county
    who don't have transportation. Sometimes, they have to take two or
    three buses to get to a grocery store.


    Mary's garden expands to become an organic produce stand, and then
    expands again into a building with a vegetarian kitchen and dining room.
    People come from miles around to eat the delicious food that is served
    there, grown on the land nearby.


    The author is a member of the Bioneers, which stands for "biological
    pioneers" (www.Bioneers.org). Marika is learning about many projects to
    naturally restore human health and the planet. At the 2004 Bioneers
    Conference, LaDonna Redmond spoke about the issue of bringing organic
    foods and urban farms to poor local communities which have otherwise
    been left out of the picture.


    LaDonna's son had terrible allergies, and she decided to improve her
    family's nutrition to help him get better. She made the shocking
    statement that, in her inner Chicago neighborhood, "It's easier to buy a
    38 caliber pistol than to find an organic apple!" She and her husband
    started an inner city organic produce store as a result of this
    revelation.

    Marika decided to create an organic gardening project to blanket her county, the nation, and the world with organic, local sources of healthful food. She also formed a nonprofit organization, JOY OF LEARNING CENTERS (www.joyoflearningcenters.org) to teach about the relationship of good food to human health. The Project is called The Prosperity Project, and is described on the website. All profits from sales of "Mary's Garden" will be used to support The Prosperity Project.

    By buying this book, you will be investing in good health for yourself, your family and your fellow human beings world wide!


    Mary's Garden is designed to appeal to "children of all ages", from
    the very young to the young adults and parents who might be moved to
    create a similar project. It's also an inspiration for people to create
    similar programs in their own area, with a flyer and photos showing how
    to get started. There's a coloring book called "Wiggle E. Worm" that
    all children seem to love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJul 26, 2006
    ISBN9781466943605
    Mary's Garden
    Author

    Marta

    Marika , MA, CMT, and Registered Polarity Practitioner, envisions a patchwork quilt of organic gardens spreading across the county, the nation, and the world! She sees gardening as a healthful activity families can do together and a great outlet for youthful energies. When learned that the average morsel of food travels 1300 miles to get to our tables and our supply of gas and oil is being depleted- she created a way to build a local organic food supply, right in her yard. She started a community garden. "All I ever wanted out of life was to be able to go outside and pick my dinner! "she says. She was involved in the Green Revolution of the 60's, when she and her family moved to the country to live off the land as much as possible. They gardened, raised goats and lived without electricity. The children all drank goat's milk after they were weaned, and there was no TV. Those years were the best years of her life. Even before that, she has gardened wherever she has lived, since she was a small child. She has woven a few pictures of her own childhood into the story to show how long she has held this vision. In 1992, she formed a nonprofit organization, JOY OF LEARNING CENTERS (www.joyoflearningcenters.org) to teach people about the relationship of good food to human health. In 2004, after attending several Bioneers Conferences (www.Bioneers.org). Marika decided to create an project to bring local sources of organic, healthful food to people in her county. She offers information on how to create similar projects to groups world wide. The project is named The Prosperity Project, because our real wealth is the land and the food supply. The Cree Indians have prophesied, "You will learn you can't eat money." She is the mother of four children, and the grandmother of eight! She claims, "I have learned more from my children, my goats and my gardens than I did in school!" She is a talented Polarity Practitioner, as well as a writer. She's a member of the AMERICAN POLARITY THERAPY ASSOCIATION, GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP NETWORK, AMGAT (Asociacion Maya Guatemalteca Abaj Takalik), CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE and SCIENCE OF THE SOUL CENTER. She founded the JOY OF LEARNING CENTERS to help bring holistic health teachings and organic foods to low income communities, in settings where they can live and practice good health habits - including getting their hands in the earth and producing their own food.

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      Mary's Garden - Marta

      INTRODUCTION

      Mary’s Garden is the story of a little girl who wants a garden in her yard, and how that garden becomes an environmental justice project. It is told in the form of a photograph album, with photos of the author’s own childhood as the garden develops.

      Mary’s garden grows so well it gives more food than her family and friends can eat. She is aware that there are poor people in her county who don’t have transportation. Sometimes, they have to take two or three buses to get to a grocery store.

      Mary’s garden expands to become an organic produce stand, and then expands again into a building with a vegetarian kitchen and dining room. People come from miles around to eat the delicious food that is served there, grown on the land nearby.

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