ROTC Weekend!

Our School at Blair Grocery is proud to announce becoming a Regional Outreach Training Center of Growing Power, the leader in Urban Agriculture. 

The vision for Regional Outreach Training Centers is to provide Growing Power’s technical training support at the local level as an expansion of Growing Powers Vision: Inspiring communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time. 

Join Our School at Blair Grocery 

February 19th - 21st 

Urban Workshop Series

 featuring 

Will Allen, CEO 

and founder of Growing Power

Registration: $150

TO REGISTER: Click the donate button to pay AND

 then email workshop@osbgnola.org with your 

name, organization/contact information and donation confirmation number. 

Featured Workshops include: Composting, Hoop House Building, Project Planning, Youth Empowerment, City Tour, Sprouts and Microgreens, Growing Mushrooms and more!

Workshops start at 9am sharp both Sunday and Monday at OSBG. 

Light breakfast and lunch provided. 

Tentative Schedule

Saturday February 19

7PM PUBLIC Film Screening: FRESH: The Movie

Tulane University Goldring/Woldenberg Hall, Room 131

Sunday February 20, 2011

9AM  Breakfast, Introductions and Tour of OSBG

12pm Lunch
 1PM Workshops @ OSBG

7PM PUBLIC Presentation by Will Allen @ Tulane University

Sliding Scale Donation 

Qatar Ballroom in the Lavin-Bernick Center (room 212)

Monday February 21 (PRESIDENTS DAY)

9AM Workshops @ OSBG
12pm Lunch

1PM Workshops @ OSBG

6:30PM PRIVATE Dinner for Paid Registrants @ KIPP Renaissance

 (Frederick Douglass High School on St. Claude)

7:30PM PUBLIC Public Panel Discussion (sliding scale donation)

on the role urban food security work can play in revitalizing communities, 

supporting vulnerable children and their families, 

and building innovation for resilience and a stronger non-profit/ social justice sector

Featuring Will Allen, Turner (founder of OSBG), Chef John Besh,

Marco Cocito-Monoc (Greater New Orleans Foundation), 

Brian Dassler (principal of KIPP Renaissance),

Brian Gotreaux (sustainable farmer outside Scott, LA. gofamilyfarms.org) 

 Liz Tuckermanty (program leader for USDA’s Community Food Projects), 

and NOLA City Officials