Mid-March Calendar Events at OFFCenter

Community Arts Project, iCreate's Albuquerque partner

 

Women & Creativity Workshop Example of a styrofoam block print created by workshop participant Venae Warner. Sat., March 24th, 10 am - Noon "Nature of Happiness" Project: Block Printing on Fabric Workshop @ National Hispanic Cultural Center Age 5 and up are invited to participate. Adabel Allen from OFFCenter Community Arts Project will provide instruction for basic block printing using styrofoam plates to print on fabric. This is part of OFFCenter's Nature of Happiness series of workshops inviting people to create images from elements of nature that create happiness for them. FREE but call (505) 247-1172 to register. Class is limited to 15 participants. Workshop will be held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Classroom, 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque, NM 87102. All materials and tools will be provided.  If you would like to bring a little of your own fabric that you want to try to print on, feel free. Non-textured, tight weaves, usually produce the best impressions. Adabel Allen is an artist/printmaker with a BFA with Honors in Printmaking, Summa Cum Laude. She is OFFCenter's Program Development & Marketing Manager and a member of New Grounds Print Workshop.

News from NM #FarmersMarkets

Learn more about other markets across NM and NM Farmers' Marketing Association programs. In this issue: update on the 2012 NMFMA Conference, Growing Local Workshop Series, Denise Miller's cooking column and food/market links (sidebar).

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REAL FOOD News from New Mexico's farmers' markets New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association March 2012 Getting Connected at the NMFMA Conference On March 9-10, market managers, vendors, volunteers and others from 43 markets across the state gathered together in Santa Fe for the NMFMA's 15th annual conference.   The theme of this year's conference was "Getting Connected," and focused primarily on connecting within the organization through the Board of Directors' adoption of policy governance, connecting with customers through social media, and connecting farmers' markets with the health of their communities.   Additional sessions included the annual training with the Department of Health for the WIC and Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Programs, food safety, a new manager meeting, and small table discussions on a number of topics. Because New Mexico is such a large state, the conference also provides a rare opportunity for market staff from across the state to network and find out best practices from one another. As one attendee commented, "The conference provided very relevant topics interspersed with great opportunities to meet each other in between!"

Workshop: Xeriscaping in New Mexico

Here's something for the Mountainair Community Garden, other local gardeners, anyone with an interest in decorative gardening and landscaping... perhaps even growers of decorative plants for the Mountainair Farm & Garden Market

 

Learn which low-water-use plants will provide the most flowers, color, and texture throughout the seasons. Erin’s Gardens Landscape design will have a slide show presentation and distribute a list of her favorite evergreen and flowering plants and plant catalogs. Bring your landscaping questions and photos of problem areas in your garden. 

 11am. Admission $10. 417 Sierra Dr. SE, Barelas/South Valley, 505-554-1814. Limited to 10 people, please pre-register.

This event is part of the Women & Creativity Celebration

 

Women & Creativity: Lush Xeriscaping in New Mexico, Wednesday, March 21, 2012

PEW Campaign on Human Health & Industrial Farming

Surely relevant to #iCreate's  #CommunityGarden, #FarmersMarkets, #locavore & #sustainability interests. In lieu of hunting down meeting notes, badgering officers for grant updates, research a piece on music outreach or the role music in childhood development, today I'm going for low hanging fruit on the road of least-resistance. Tomorrow perhaps Off-Center (our ABQ partner, even though they never mention us either on website or in newsletter) and local iCreate updates. Now, back to Occupy Colleges' March 1 Day of Action and the virtual sit-in

Welcome to the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming!  If you have not taken action yet on the Change.org petition, FDA: Take Measures to Preserve Effectiveness of Cephalosporins, please do so now. We are urging the FDA to finalize a rule that will limit the use of a class of antibiotics in food animal production. This restriction is a victory for human health as it will help ensure that cephalosporins continue to work to treat life-threatening infections today and in the future. However, there is still more that needs to be done to curtail the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production. To keep you up-to-date, we will send you a monthly newsletter with breaking news and other important information on this issue. Be sure to look out for your first edition soon! Additionally, there are other ways to stay involved with our campaign: Join Moms for Antibiotic Awareness, a project of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, which is working for more judicious use of antibiotics in food animal production. Since our launch in May 2011, more than 23,000 mothers, fathers, grandparents, and others concerned about their family's health have joined. We are trying to reach 75,000 by our year anniversary – please consider joining today!   Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Visit SaveAntibiotics.org for regular updates. Thank you again for taking a stand against the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production.  We look forward to your continued support!   Forward to a friend

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