This project will combat the food desert in the area and perhaps siphon profits from Wal-Mart and keeping them in the pockets of the people that live nearby. Prairie Rose Food Forestīy far the largest project we are undertaking is installing a food forest behind the Davenport Public Library’s Fairmount branch.
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All the food and herbs will be free to the public, and our surplus will be donated to local soup kitchens. We will begin planting this spring, choosing nutritious and approachable crops, maximizing yield, planting prairie strips for pollinators, incorporating indigenous plants as much as possible, rebuilding soil, and accommodating wildlife. We also have the 50 Front Yards Project, which is approaching private landowners to ask them to pledge to abandon their lawns to more sustainable and creative models. A representative from United Neighbors has promised us two lots that we can garden. We are partnering with Quad Cities Food Forest Coalition and the Quad Cities Waterkeeper of the Upper Mississippi Valley on these projects. It is for this reason that we are working on founding and maintaining several community permaculture projects throughout the area. We are a non-profit dedicated to social organizing and political activism, and as such we are dedicated to the building of a more equitable, prosperous world, by basing our production of food and use of resources on more sustainable and democratic systems. We believe that we should all give according to our abilities to the greater good based on needs of the many and that food, knowledge, and the beauty of an individual’s internal and external world are universal human needs, and are therefore human rights.įood is one of the most intersectional topics - everybody eats. The Prairie Rose Collective is the environmental justice work group of the Quad Cities chapter of the DSA.
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