The Green Kind Community's 1st Ever Garden Project

The Green Kind Community's 1st Ever Community Project entailed building two organic vegetable community gardens in Casselberry, Florida.

Project's Mission was tri-fold:
1. Gather to build garden(s) organically for healthy food and instruction in food sustainability.

2. Seek to provide and cultivate community as we work together towards a common goal.

3. We are promoting eating with the seasons.

The program had 11 people enrolled (including children who garden for FREE).
We had one Master Community Gardener (Trina); she joined us for the first hour and half for instruction and guidance.

A total of 15 people were involved on November 13, 2010 early morning.
It was a BLAST!!

Here are a couple more samples of pictures from the experience. More to come!

Enjoy,

Green Kind


If you are interested in being apart of this project in the future or other GKC (Green Kind Community) projects, please email us or call at (www.thegreenkindcommunity@gmail.com OR 321-331-1072). It is a great community experience.

Join us on Facebook - The Green Kind Community !!!

Wellness & Nutrition Seminar

Wellness & Nutrition Seminar Coming to Orlando this December.
Friday, December 10, 2010

David Wolfe (author & Expert in Health, Eco, Nutrition and Natural Beauty) presents leading edge information on alternative healing, diet, detox, fitness and energy. David will discuss super foods, super herbs, living foods and longevity.

Lucia Camara (Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Writer & Speaker) will host an inspirting hands on workshop to take charge of your health and wellness destiny.

Early Registration gets $20.00 off. (www.wellnessandnutritioninstitute.com)

Wild Market An Earth-Friendly Venue

Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens

Every 2nd Saturday of each month from October through April
9:00 am - 2:oo p.m.
Free Admission

Offering Locally produced goods, sustainable products or services and environmentally-themed arts and crafts.

Vendors include: Farm Fresh Orlando (Organic produce), Our Vital Earth (vermicomposting), Joe's Oat Patties (vegan and soy products), Go Green Handbags and From Scratch Baking Company (fresh, handmade breads and pastries).

Prize Winner!

October's Prize Winner

CONGRATULATIONS!


Alaine Miller of East Orlando, FL

Alaine is the winner of the book "Living Green" by Greg Horn

We start a new month today! Stay connected with The Green Kind Community through out the coming months for more chances to win upcoming prizes.

Thanks for following.
Be Healthy, Stay Healthy,

The Green Kind Community

Chipotle & Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution Combine Forces!

Check out this opportunity to not only bash harmful foods that large corporations are feeding you and your family, but also get a good hearty meal for $2.00.

This Halloween after 6pm, if you dress up like a harmful food product, then you will get a burrito meal from Chipotle for $2.00.

Check out the article & video for more! (Note: on the video you can see Jaime dressed as a chicken nugget!)

http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/fan-antics/boorito/boorito.aspx

Chipotle hopes to raise one million dollars towards Jaime's Food Revolution!

Cheers!

GK

*visual graphic is directly from the Chipotle website.

VEG FEST TOMORROW in Central Florida!!!!

Another exciting event coming to Central Florida for
all us veggie lovers!

Long list of fun:

* Speakers
*Presentations
*Humane education
*Restaurant booths
*Live music and entertainment
*Artist corner
*Hundreds of veg-friendly vendors
and more!

Saturday, October 23, 2010
10 am - 6 pm

Loch Haven Park
900 East Princeton Street
Orlando, Florida 32803

Cheers,
Green Kind

FALL PLANT SALE TOMORROW AT UCF

Fall Plant Sale tomorrow at UCF! Buy fresh vegetables, herbs, and more. There will be workshops available through out the day! Another local opportunity to buy fresh food.

Click on the picture to link you directly to the website for more information!


Cheers for knowing where our food comes from!

the green kind

Veg Fest : October 23rd

Another exciting event coming to Central Florida for
all us veggie lovers!

Even if veggies are not your love this will be a great community event to go too.

Long list of fun:

* Speakers
*Presentations
*Humane education
*Restaurant booths
*Live music and entertainment
*Artist corner
*Hundreds of veg-friendly vendors
and more!

Saturday, October 23, 2010
10 am - 6 pm

Loch Haven Park
900 East Princeton Street
Orlando, Florida 32803

Fun times to be had by ALL!

Cheers,
Green Kind

Prize Winner!

September's Prize Winner


Congratulations!

Paul Christopher of Winter Springs, Fl

Paul is the winner of a $15 gift card to the local Homegrown Co-op

We start a new month today! Stay connected with The Green Kind Community through out the coming months for more chances to win upcoming prizes.

Thanks for following.
Be Healthy, Stay Healthy,

The Green Kind Community

A Green Read

A Quick Read about Sustainable living.

Practical, Simple, and Testimonial style of writing.
The author also gives encouragement, even in the small details of our efforts.

Two quotes I really like so far in the beginning chapter:

"We live at a unique time in human history. Never before have we had so much freedom to make positive choices about our lives. We can choose where we live, what we eat, what we buy and even what we think and believe. More than any time in history, we have the luxury of thinking through the downstream implications of our actions and changing our behaviors based on our values. This consciousness of cause and effect between our lifestyles-even our diets- and the plant's health is the driving force behind the sustainability movement. " (page 22)

AND

"We're not marching into the streets armed and angry. Instead, we are living our lives differently: quietly taking our trash to recycling centers, buying organic produce, paying a little extra for fair-trade coffee, driving more fuel-efficient cars, such as hybrids, and refusing to buy overpackaged goods." (page 25)


I end with this quote from page 26, "By starting with practical actions we are bringing a new consciousness to our way of living; this revolution is spreading swiftly."

What are your thoughts?



Cheers,

The Green Kind

New Find!

Artichoke Red
The only vegan convenience store in Orlando

407.898.3353
1813 N Orange Ave
Orlando, FL 32804

Body Care

Vegan Cosmetics

Vegan Food Items

Cleaning products

Candles and Aromatherapy

Dog and Cat products

Fair Trade Organic Coffee

Teas And Yerba Mate

Herbal Teas

Bodum Tea and Coffee makers

Vegan Vitamins and Minerals and Herbs and supplements

Be Healthy, Stay Healthy!

The Green Kind

Walk for Farm Animals 2010

" When I think about the billions of sensitive, intelligent beings who are confined and mistreated on factory farms to produce foods linked with obesity, heart disease, cancer and stroke- that is all the motivation I need to make healthier, more conscientious choices. I am honored to be the national spokesperson for Farm
Sanctuary's 2010 Walk for Farm Animals." - Bob Harper



Join the Orlando 2010 Walk for Farm Animals

When: Saturday, October 2nd
Where: 2-mile walk begins at Ethos Vegan Kitchen, 1235 N Orange Ave. Orlando
Registration: Pre-Registration $15 (Regular $20) includes t-shirt.

Check out website for more information:

www.firstgiving.com/farmsanctuary

OR

email walk coordinator: Bryan Wilson at
orlando@walkforfarmanimals.org

Edible Orlando

Edible Orlando


I got the opportunity tonight to attend a community meeting with Simple Living Institute to discuss a great project that is in the works. While at this meeting I got to meet the producer and one of the editors for Edible Orlando Magazine. She also gave all of us a free copy of the first issue released just recently.

I am so excited to read my copy over the next few days.
There is much to be said for those who labor for the better health of people they have never met.

Find out where you can pick up a copy by clicking the link below.

http://www.ediblecommunities.com/orlando/find-a-copy/where-to-find-a-copy-of-edible-orlando.htm



Cheers,
The Green Kind

Central Florida Homegrown Food Co- Op

Check out their website! Just click on the picture above.

Don't forget to become a follower of my blog & your name will be entered in a drawing to win
$15 Gift Card to shop here!

Drawing is September 30th.

Post this to your Facebook account by clicking on the little Facebook Icon on this post and your name will be entered into the drawing TWICE.


Cheers!

The Green Kind

New Market in Town!!

New Market in town! Website says it has been open since April. I got a Facebook message/invitation for the Grand Opening not that long ago? So unsure of opening date, but it is confirmed they are open now!!!

HOURS & Location 3060 E Semoran Blvd Ste 100 Apopka, FL 32703 407-682-8000 407-682-5800 (fax)

Mon 9 to 7 Tue 9 to 7 Wed 9 to 7 Thu 9 to 7 Fri 9 to 7 Sat 10 to 6 Sun 11 to 5

Central Florida Veg Fest

Another exciting event coming to Central Florida for
all us veggie lovers!

Even if veggies are not your love this will be a great community event to go too.

Long list of fun:

* Speakers
*Presentations
*Humane education
*Restaurant booths
*Live music and entertainment
*Artist corner
*Hundreds of veg-friendly vendors
and more!

Saturday, October 23, 2010
10 am - 6 pm

Loch Haven Park
900 East Princeton Street
Orlando, Florida 32803

Fun times to be had by ALL!

Cheers,
Green Kind

Clean House, Clean Earth

Click on logo to go directly to site!
Clean House, Clean Earth!
Local, Affordable, Environmentally safe for
you, your home, and the planet Earth.

Another Resource!

Found this neat little website while trying to research what to use for organic weed killer.

Check it out when you have a chance. Seems like a great little resource. Just click on the picture.

Even a section on raising chickens and green energy! Both avenues the Green Kind Community are researching to implement in the near future.

Enjoy!


Green Kind!

Eggs! could be just the beginning

Check out a video on the latest 550 Billion eggs recall.
This is crazy - but maybe now more of the skeptics of Food, Inc. and other food documentaries will be a little more persuaded?


Watch CNN video here


Other related articles from various sources:
(Disclaimer, I have not had time to read through all of these yet)

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/08/27/con-salmonella-egg.html

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_15918677

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/26/health/main6807557.shtml


Please share your thoughts!


Be healthy, Stay healthy,
Green Kind

Join me tomorrow...

Tomorrow (August 11th) I will be attending the workshop at Florida School of Holistic Living called "Planning a Fall Garden". Starts at 6:30pm.

The woman teaching the workshop is amazingly detailed and worth the money.

I will be meeting a small group of friends tomorrow. If you want to join us let me know through this blog (comment) and I will add you to the group list so you can get a discounted price.

Hope to see you there!



1109 East Concord Street
Orlando, FL 32803
(407) 595-3731

http://www.holisticlivingschool.org/

Local Allergy Remedy

A friend's account of her battle with allergies & weight gain and the success she found in natural means, specifically in local Honey. Here is a snippet:


"I have a shout out to the Winter Park Honey Man! Winterparkhoney.com I am not sure if he is at the Monday Night Market, but he is at the Saturday Winter Park Farmer's Market and he is THE MAN for local honey!

I have allergies. CHRONIC allergies that can get so bad the pain is indistinguishable from my migraines. Recently I have discovered that it is all of the steroids and over the counter allergy medicines that have been causing my body to "hold on" to my weight when I have tried weight watchers and other ways to lose it. (Among other awful things.) And I have been using my netti pot and doing other holistic things, the allergies just weren't going away- and the doctors were saying "More medicine!""


To read her full comment and more details see the comment section on the last post "Audubon Market".

Thank you Mandy for sharing!

The Green Kind

Monday Night Market

Audubon Park Community Market meets every Monday from 6- 10 p.m. 1842 E Winter Park Rd. The market creates a place where people can come together to share a meal, see a show, do the weeks grocery shopping, peruse the local arts, and most importantly, get to know each other.

Click picture for direct connect to website.

Be Healthy, Stay Healthy!

The Green Kind

Another "local" Farm

HEART OF CHRISTMAS FARMS, LLC

21310 Fort Christmas Road
Christmas, FL 32709
407-512-2004
heartofchristmasfarms@gmail.com

Fruit & Vegetables Hydroponically Grown to Organic Standards

Fresh picked strawberries, tomatoes, greens,
herbs, peppers, lettuces, squash, sprouts,
micro-greens, edible flowers, radishes
spinach, and more!

Recall Alert!

Heads up everybody!

Check out this link to see which lettuce is now on recall.

Click hear for more information

Kiss-im-mee's Green Place!

NOW OPEN!

Wednesday - Saturday 9am - 7pm

Sunday 9am - 5pm

Kissimmee's Green Place for Organic Vegetables
4130 Cardinal Lane, Kissimmee, FL 34744

407-348-4699

Click on phone number to check out their website!

Be Healthy, Stay Healthy!

Volunteer Opportunity!

GREAT opportunities to be active in the Central Florida Area this week!



This Thursday UCF Arboretum is in need of volunteers for their garden day event 10-4 p.m.. Click here UCF Arboretum for more details OR call 407-823-2761.




Also, check out the Local Events tab to see the course offered this week at Florida School of Holistic Living.

Greenings Fellow Earthy Readers

This blog is designed to be informative and join in a community/network. What kind of community you may ask?

Answer..... The Green Kind Community.

Inspired by watching Food, Inc. with combination of up bringing (Green/Holistic Grandmother) and age.

Informative Blog?

Answer: Yes! Search through the tabs at the top of the blog to find out more information.

Please respond as much as you can with feedback, information, and your ideas. You may want to consider starting your own blog= Awesome! If you already have a blog = more Awesome! I want to follow yours!

One of the Greenest ways to live is TOGETHER.

Cheers to our current & future Health!

Be Healthy, Stay Healthy!
Stephanie