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Volunteer with us!

We have an exciting new and improved garden program this year and we want you to be a part of it. Volunteer with us: -Sign up to help with planting and harvest days around town at the Louisville Grows Gardens Become a Garden Liaison: -Work with a specific garden throughout the season and be trained [...]

February 14, 2011 · admin · No Comments
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Start your own garden this Spring!

If you are interested in starting a community garden in the spring 2011 and need some help please sign up right away! Louisville Grows is available to help get you going.

Click on the link for more details.

December 27, 2010 · Leah · 2 Comments
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Green Goods Not Very Green

…a recent report in Business Week that highlights a study which finds that biofules may cause more green house gases than petroleum. Once again, the researchers failed to include a number of factors. They assume current petroleum fueled agriculture practices as appose to sustainable agriculture in the analysis as well as other end uses of spent grain, as in their potential use as feedstock. But perhaps the biggest hole in this study though is its failure to look at cellulosic biofuels that essentially use waste to create fuel.

Then again, who believes research anymore?

October 29, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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Available Tax Credits for Solar, Wind, and Efficiency

Right now you can receive a 30% Energy Star tax break for the installation of a Energy Start approved solar or wind system. This can be everything from energy production to water heating. Think about it, that’s a third of your installation costs. Now, like any properly run government incentive program their are certain restrictions and qualifications so you should go to the tax credit website and use its guidelines to help you choose a project.

October 19, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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Partnerships, internal and external

It’s been pretty hectic around lately and here’s an update of what has been going on. It’s a bit long so brace yourselves. There have been some very productive meetings with Breaking New Grounds, the Heine Bros organic composting project, the Environmental Finance Center at UofL, Louisville CSA, and the Kentucky School Garden Network. Each [...]

September 11, 2009 · admin · No Comments
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News, New, and More News

It’s been a busy past couple of weeks full of exciting happenings. We filed our paperwork to become incorporated We have our first partnership – Food Not Lawns We are developing various programs with JCPS We we’re featured in an eco-blog that is up for an award (http://uprooted.jessicareeder.com/2009/07/guerrilla-gardening-flower-bombing/) With any luck we’ll also have a [...]

July 30, 2009 · admin · No Comments
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