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Grahovac's Army of Volunteers

Helping Urban Farmers in Northeast Kansas City, Kansas

Paul Grahovac: Corporate attorney and business development executive.
Bio at: http://paulgrahovac.blogspot.com/

Paul's volunteer experience: 3 years of Saturdays with Habitat for Humanity in NE KCK.

The Work: Just one Hour.  Gardening Saturdays 8am to noon. Come whatever time you can, leave when you want to.  Just one hour of your work makes a huge difference.  Call my cell if we have left Faith Lutheran for the gardens by the time you get there. 785-393-1816.

Project Partners: U. S. Department of Agriculture (3rd-year program), Kansas State University, Kansas State Extension Service, KC Center for Urban Agriculture, Oak Grove and Walnut Boulevard Neighborhoods

Where to meet: Faith Lutheran Church, 530 Quindaro, just West of 5th Street and Quindaro on the North side.

Register: Just send an e-mail to grahovac8@gmail.com indicating which Saturday you will be there.

Ongoing commitment: None.

Questions: Call Paul Grahovac at 785-393-1816 cell, or write to grahovac8@gmail.com

Benefits of volunteering:

Meet people

Help low-income families develop an additional source of income and supply their food needs

Learn how to garden (using state-of-the-art organic gardening techniques to minimize effort and maximize results)

Get some exercise

Enjoy the outdoors

Develop horticultural and non-profit job skills

Enhance your resume

Tax deduction for your travel miles to and from

More to life than just the daily grind -- you are your own boss

Protect the environment by reducing food transport, caring for the land, consuming
CO2, producing oxygen, promoting efficient water use

Building the Greater KC economy by localizing production of vegetables and creating more and better shopping choices for consumers -- KCK urban farmers supply Farmer's Markets in Brookside, Olathe, and around KC

Listen to Paul Grahovac describe our group on the radio:
"Rallying an Army of Volunteer Support for Urban Agriculture"
http://www.kkfi.org/archives.php?id=9
March 23, 2010 program

See North Carolina's Crop Mob http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/mag......

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