Little City Gardens

As we move forward this winter, one of our primary goals is to raise some funds that will allow us to expand our project.  We want to be able to build a bigger space, grow more food, and allow ourselves more time for creative programming and educational events.

Since urban agriculture is such a new field, traditional sources of startup funding (loans) are a little less realistic for us, so we have to get creative.  In the next week or so, we will be posting our project on Kickstarter, a website that hosts funding campaigns for creative projects of all sorts – from self-published comic books to feature films to tours for bands. The site hosts the project for a set amount of time, and you are offered rewards (put together by us) in return for your pledges.

We are excited about this creative way of approaching fundraising and support. It offers us the opportunity to be accountable to (and communicate with) a much broader audience than if we were to receive funding from one organization or institution. It’s a chance for our large, extended community to come together to support our project, and for us to be able to offer artful rewards in gratitude for the support.

We have been working hard over the past month to put together our proposal for the site, and we are excited to soon share it! We’ve got a short video coming soon, writings about our project and goals, and some artwork that we are pretty proud of.  Stay tuned, friends! We will need your support.

(And for a little more info about Kickstarter, see this NY Times Article).