Mosaic Community Gardens News

Mosaic Community Gardens are always “popping up” with opportunities to become a member or join the Community Land Trust board.

Join us for a social evening at our newest garden location, Elizabeth B. Barth Elementary School, to find out more about the organization or to reserve your garden bed for the 2017 growing season.  The FREE evening social takes place on Friday, October 28 from 5-7 PM. We will be inside the school – meals will be served and information offered!  Please plan to join us!

Contact our garden manager at 484-300-2410 if you have any questions or need additional information.

Also, our next workshop is in the “works”, please be on the lookout for more details in an upcoming email, Facebook post and on our website!

Newark, N.J. To Get World’s Largest Indoor Vertical Farm

AeroFarms, an aeroponics company that was started in 2004, is bringing what is soon to be the world’s largest vertical farm to a former steel factory in Newark, New Jersey’s Ironbound community.

The vertical farm will manufacture short, leafy green vegetables grown in vertically stacked trays that will fill 69,000 square feet of the former Newark factory.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/home_and_design/Newark-NJ-to-get-worlds-largest-indoor-vertical-farm.html#6hOeyD2lDQ1rD9Rq.99

iCreate Cafe Offering Discounts To MCCC West Campus And Hill School Students

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Pottstown Mini-Mart Approvals Raise Healthy Food Questions

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POTTSTOWN — Earlier this month, two new food retail shops were approved by borough council.

During the conditional use hearings that preceded their approval, the usual menu of concerns were aired by neighbors — parking, hours of operation — but another was raised as well.

Questions were raised about the healthiness of the food the shops would serve.

The first business on which council heard testimony will be called Goldie’s Corner, located at 451 N. Charlotte St. in the space most recently occupied by the Milkman Lunch Co. before that shop moved to High Street.

Read more:   http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20140418/pottstown-mini-mart-approvals-raise-healthy-food-questions

iCreate Cafe Needs Your Help Raising Money For A Zoning Variance

Pottstown‘s most unique and healthy restaurant/computer training center needs our help or they will have to close their doors.  We certainly don’t want that!  To that end, please read below and if you want to keep this amazing cafe in Pottstown, click on the link provided and donate whatever you are comfortable contributing to the cause!  

Ash writes,

We NEED to raise money ASAP to pay for THE ZONING VARIANCE application to be able to stay in our location in the historical district of our beautiful Pottstown, and to keep providing services to our local customers and students.

 If we don’t apply for the zoning variance then we will have to CLOSE OUR DOORS.

Your contribution to our fundraising is truly appreciated.

Thank you 

To contribute, please click on this link: http://www.gofundme.com/Saving-iCreate-Cafe

First Nonprofit Supermarket Opens In Chester

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CHESTER, PA. — In Chester, a city where hard times often plow under shiny promises, a hunger-relief agency’s pledge to build America’s first nonprofit supermarket was greeted skeptically at first.

But Philabundance may be confounding local doubters. Its Fare & Square grocery store, seven years in the making, is ready to open its doors this morning, a rare oasis in what has been called a food desert.

“No one believed this was coming,” said Denina Hood, a Chester native and an employee of the store that will become the first supermarket in town since 2001. “But this store isn’t going anywhere.”

Usually in the business of distributing donated food to pantries in the Delaware Valley, Philabundance, a nonprofit, has augmented its mission and become a store owner, charging prices 8 percent to 10 percent lower than small urban grocers.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/first-nonprofit-supermarket-opens-in-struggling-pa-city-705230/#ixzz2gCesc07x

Healthy Eating Just Got Easier In The Tri-County Area

If you live in the Greater Pottstown area and are concerned about your health here is some great news.  iCreate Cafe had started home delivery!  Get delicious food brought right to your door.

If you live in Pottstown, there is a $15.00 minimum for free delivery.

If you live in Limerick or Douglasville, there is a $20.00 minimum for free delivery.

If you live in Boyertown, there is a $25.00 minimum for free delivery.

iCreate’s website is http://www.icreatecafe.org/ or call Ash at 484-312-0404.

Happy eating 🙂