What started off as a simple tweet to Newark's mayor Cory Booker about a North Newark urban farm, quickly turned into 3 tweeters from North Newark joining in conversation about starting one for our neighborhood.
After some online research, we found out about the city's Adopt-a-Lot program. The program encourages us to beautify our community by offering residents an annual lease of $1 on city-owned empty lots. Who can pass that up? For $1 we can make a difference in our neighborhood's appearance but more importantly help eachother with living healthier! We moved forward with our plan and "signed" our lease on May 20!!
Twitter is where it began, I have to give them a shout and of course plug North Newark Urban Garden's twitter page. Follow us, we follow back!
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