 This month, we've been going to nearby Tripple Brook Farm, an amazing plant nursery in Southampton. Join us for our Thursday and Friday morning work parties, from 9-1. Get in touch by email if you'd like to tag along and learn about grafting, greenhouse maintenance, starting seeds, plant identification and more!  We've been starting seeds for fruit tree guilds, gardens, flowers and groundcovers around town, like black eyed susans, garden sage, cinnamon vine, wildflower mixes, valerian, mints, echinacea, chives, yarrow, lupines & more! We meet regularly at Owl and Raven, are making a big plant order this week, got our non-profit bylaws hammered out, and, speaking of hammering, got a nifty metal punch to stamp letters into metal, permanent, snazzy tree tags!  Meanwhile, we finally finished all 145 thank you cards, including 30 water color paintings for the generous donors to the Kickstarter fundraiser. Thanks to all who helped paint! With the cards went 300 paw-paw seeds, ready to germinate with instructions. Imagine paw-paws in backyards all over the East coast! (A few even went to California)
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 This November, using some funding from the Ritual Arts Collective grant and school budgets, we were able to plant 18 fruit trees at and around public schools in the valley! We'll be continuing to plant at these schools in the spring. With the kids' help, we planted... 
 We're so pleased to announce the sucessful end of our Kickstarter campaign! We raised 5,5209 through the crowd-sourcing website, which ended up to be roughly 4,800 after fees, etc. Cash donations brought this back up to 5,559$! This translates to over 200 fruit trees we'll be planting this spring in Northampton & communities beyond. We are so grateful for everyone's generosity, for the work the donors did to origionally earn the money, for the animals and plants they ate to have the energy to do that work, and for the energy used to sustain folks' computers for the duration of fundraiser.  Thanks to All our Human Donors! Those who donated various amounts choosing no reward: Rachael Dawn Kim Nancy Seth Fischer Ezra Parzybok Doug and Carol Alan Bacher Ali Usman Ally Sterling Dave Marshall Jim Fulmer James Lowenthal Leslie Claire Andrews anneliese Lauren Dennison Wolfe Kolleen Fortenberry Linda Ugelow Catherine Wilkins Tara Kurland Erin Buzuvis Daniel Dalerhult Carolyn Earnest First Root Farm Ruwanara anno gaynor Fred Meyer Andrew Lawrence Sharon Vogt Alex Hoekstra Genna mansqwash Joe Blotnick Kira Jewett Kim Selznick Sherri already Paul Conant Eric Sherman Carly Leusner Sebastiaan Creten Barsha Rozenberg Nicole Jason Van Nest 250$ UMass Permaculture Initiative Celia Reiss 100$ Pauline Delton Sophia Lufkin Nature's Water Garden Nicholas Horton Lundy Bancroft Christine North Alli Polin Joan Howe Helen Gerson Logan Rose Sperber 55$ Stephen Mollins Adam Strock Brendon Vitz Lilly Israel Trey McCain Rebecca Reid Alice & Amy Cozzolino Melissa Wells Flynn Elise Hayden-Ferdman 50$ Wendy Messerli Adam Rabb Cohen Sameer Bhat Miel Leslie Amelia Wilbur Riggs John & Wendy Sinton Brian Levin Hilary Caws-Elwitt Sandra Hutchinson Kristi Chadwick Kamila, Fateema, Mashal, Colin, Thara, Kayla & Anya Roy Nord 25$ John Gerber Jennifer Hartley Angie Gregory Brittany N Catherine Gobron William Hoek Madeleine Gorman Shannon Paul Anguiano Isobel B Lilly & John Lombard Eevy Scott John Frey Ruth of Goeler Ashley Barajas Sareen Gerson Emerald Levick Laurel DiMasi Bryan Long The Siege Family Vivian Hill Rory Alexander Farrell Madden Anne Conger Shane Peabody Margaret McGrew Linda Tropp Ryan Harb Gaby Immerman Molly Karina Rosenstein wendy mcdougall Rhoda Floyd Philip Korman Hank & Allan Kelley & crew Reggie Silver Wenhong Xie Benjamin Davis Gabor Vanessa Zaehring Steph Aquilina Julia Metzger-Traber Rosemary McNaughton Mary Borde Wieck Elyse Singer Kathy Simone Rainaud Holly Mott Jessica Lamson 10$ Scott Niekum Bri Hermanson Joshua Wachtel Ruth Gerson Saera Hanlon Kent Rice Allegra Fisher Tom Sullivan Eve Bernhard Laura MacKay Doug Weihrauch Angela Zehava Lee Englestone Chelsea Monroe-Cassel Bernd Wiehle Erica Silver Nicholas Jackie DuBois Elyse Josiah Aiken Drake Morgan Brown Beryl Hoffman Erika Zekos 4Rob Sharon Wachsler Rachel Taylor-Doward Ananda Lakshmi Wilson Beu Tornaghi Laurel Maloney Rebecca Speert Carl Knerr John Hopkins Evan Goodchild Kimberley Bullard Robussy Ian Cappelletti Interesting maps of donor locations: 
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Using our first grant from the generous Ritual Arts Collective (Drum and Dance donations), we made our first order from Miller's nurseries in Cannandaigua NY. These generous cousins of ours will be planted along the Rail Trail Connector the LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER! STAY TUNED FOR A BIG WORK PARTY!  Last weekend, GrowFood Northampton put in an 800 foot hedgerow of hundreds of edible and native bushes, trees, and ground covers... at the Florence Organic Community garden! Using plant credit earned at Tripple Brook Farm in Southampton, Help Yourself donated many native and delicious plant cousins to the project:
 Help Yourself won a 1000$ grant this spring from the generous Ritual Arts Collective, who feature the popular North Amherst "Drum and Dance" in North Amherst! This funding will go to our first project, the Rail Trail Connector. In October, dozens of grape vines, mainly Concords, will arrive, to go up the cedar posts that line the bike path! Some Asian pears and native plums will fill in the azalea area near the stone steps, where the path crosses pleasant street!
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