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    Featured Volunteer, Gina Castellano

    Gina Castellano

    Gina Castellano works for CASA – Community Action Stops Abuse, which has propelled her into a life of activism, including Pinellas Greens and the Florida Green Party. She calls herself a biophiliac which literally means ‘love of life or living systems’. For a few years of her childhood, Gina lived on a commune in Virginia where they grew their own food. She developed a connection with nature’s ability to flourish. Most recently the Occupy Movement brought her an awareness of urban gardening, inspiring her to take action locally. Says Gina: I started volunteering at community gardens and taking gardening classes. I met Nathan and Tina and started helping out on Friday morning with food distribution. A couple months later, I became a part-time garden manager for Old Southeast Community Garden. I am a member of SUAC – Sustainable Urban Agriculture Coalition, always looking for ways to be involved in our local food movement, and getting inspiration from the results I am witnessing. I feel it is imperative that citizens learn how to grow food as a matter of survival one day and even better to share this food within our communities. There is a stronger interdependence within communities as more local interaction develops, creating a renewed local economy thus keeping dollars circulating locally. This is the revolution; this is the change I wish to see.

    Grower News

    GERALDSON COMMUNITY FARM & ST. PETERSBURG URBAN FARMS
    Veggies from Geraldson Community Farm (GCF) in Bradenton are like gold to our Market, and for alot of reasons. Not only is their produce top quality and beautiful, the volume and variety they provide our customers is extremely well rounded. They are also helping to fill a production gap within our local community. With that said, as St. Pete’s urban farmers continue to evolve, producing higher levels and greater variety of locally grown veggies, we look forward to St. Pete Growers playing an even larger role in supplying our local Community with vegetables grown right here in St. Petersburg. Until then, sincere thanks go to all customers who purchase from our Market and create more demand from St. Pete’s urban farmers. Your encouragement is highly noted and very appreciated. THANK YOU.

    DOCUMENT ST. PETE’S GROWERS ON PINTEREST
    Follow us as we encourage local urban farmers to post their food garden photos to share with the entire St. Petersburg Community! Let’s document the power of growing food LOCALLY! You can partipicate too. Just follow this link to our Pinterest project.

    HOW MUCH FUN CAN ONE HAVE?
    We are documenting that too on Pinterest as we record The art of distributing food to the St. Petersburg Community. Hope you will follow our progress!

    Message from Your Market Manager

    PLEASE STAY INFORMED WEEKLY OF IMPORTANT ONGOING MARKET CHANGES UNDERMARKET NEWSBELOW

    GOOGLE+ PAGE
    If you prefer Google+ over Facebook, we have just launched a page out there. We do hope that you will follow us?

    PINTEREST
    Check out our two new Pinterest projects and follow our progress on What Are We Up To?

    WEEKLY DELIVERIES
    Last week, I enlisted local entrepreneurs at the Spiritual Niche Network (SNN) monthly luncheons. They are supporting St. Pete Locally Grown by volunteering with deliveries on Fridays. In return, I am allowing them to pass out business cards and flyers with the orders. It’s a great trade off and a win-win for our customers should someone or something catch your eye. Thanks in advance for considering support of these local small businesses.

    WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST CUSTOMERS!
    Once you have submitted your order, if in doubt about what you owe, you can always confirm what you have been charged for by checking your account history and viewing your most current invoice. Instructions on how to do that are on our Q&A page under the question entitled Since you don’t provide an invoice with delivery, how do I know what I owe? . Also, since your vegetables are picked fresh within 24 hours of delivery, they should be lasting for WEEKS in your refrigerator. When you accept delivery, please take a few minutes to inspect your order to protect your vegetables from unnecessary spoilage. Lastly, it is imperative that you understand our policy on Unclaimed Orders found on our Q&A page. When you make a purchase you are agreeing to abide by this policy.

    Market News

    MARKET FEES
    Delivery and membership fees are being reevaluated for the coming year. As your Market Manager, one of my duties is to grow the Market and to retain our dedicated customers. To that end, I can assure you that, whatever we decide to do, it will be done for the good of sustaining our Market and providing affordable, high quality goods from our Market to your door. Longterm, I envision Market fees fluctuating up—and down—as needed so the Market can continue to provide this much needed service and valuable products to the St. Petersburg Community. Stay tuned.

    DELIVERY OPTIONS
    Business is starting to mushroom! This is what we have been working towards. As a result, we are striving to serve an expanded delivery schedule by condensing some of our deliveries. For some neighborhoods, this may mean eliminating household deliveries and relegating all orders to one particular household for pickup. We know there will have to be exceptions! Please be patient as we aspire to keeping our service convenient for our customers AND cost effective for sustaining our small business and our fluctuating volunteer pool.

    Upcoming Events

    All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

    THIS COMING SATURDAY

    • “Monthly Potluck Social”, Jan. 25th, Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM. for active Market customers. BY EVITE ONLY. Cannot wait to see you!

    Volunteer Opportunities

    We are currently organizing our volunteer needs by Grower and by Market. So when you are interested in learning how to garden and/or how to run an urban market, consider volunteering for the organizations below. Check back for more Growers to be listed.
    Nathan’s Natural Veggies
    Pioneer Settlement Garden
    St. Pete Locally Grown Market
    The Faith House

    We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!