Plate to Plate » Crispina ffrench http://www.platetoplate.com Local food & flavor in the Berkshires Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:47:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Urban Gardening in Pittsfield http://www.platetoplate.com/gardening/urban-gardening-in-pittsfield/ http://www.platetoplate.com/gardening/urban-gardening-in-pittsfield/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:05:33 +0000 Frances http://www.platetoplate.com/?p=645 I’ve been enjoying seeing the progress of the urban garden at Alchemy Initiative, down in Pittsfield, MA, a nearby small city a lot like North Adams. Alchemy Initiative is headed up by textile artist Crispina ffrench; I’ve never met Crispina, but I’m so inspired by the work she does and the goals she has set:

Alchemy Initiative is an urban model of sustainability and community. As an intentional community and meeting space for our neighbors, we work to promote the principles of holistic living, including health and healing, art-making, and sustainability.

The Alchemy Initiative is a project that uses food, art, and music as a catalyst for social change; that fosters individual learning and collective reflection; that acts as a meeting space for motivated minds and bodies; that inspires new ideas, partnerships and action; that builds and unites community; that cultivates alchemy by empowering people to transform the common into something special.

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