Posts Tagged ‘community’

myToolBox Software Development: Update 00

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

So this is the first post I am making on the development of the myToolBox web application. These are just a simple set of tools to use along side other web applications. I am developing them for Arizona Homegrown Solutions to help solve some small little problems we are running into here and there. Right now it is not all that impressive since a lot of the development time has been spent learning javascript, php, and mysql. I knew them to some degree before due to my exposure making web applications in the Ruby on Rails platform, but not to the degree I know now. (more…)

Citrus Glean – 2009.03.29

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Well another successful Citrus Glean. We had about 14 volunteers and managed to fill up the whole U-HAUL trailer. I was worried at first that we may not have enough people but I was wrong. We had enough. The other nice thing was that we had repeat people. Five people that were at the very first glean that we had also showed up for this one. I guess they had so much fun that they decided to come back. (more…)

Action Group Meeting – March 2009

Friday, March 27th, 2009

So today I met with the North Phoenix Action Group. Horse Help which is a non profit organization in Phoenix that uses horses as therapy for disabled people and troubled teens has opened up their facility to have Arizona Home Grown Solutions partner with them in turning a lot of their open and unused space into therapeutic gardening areas. This was the main highlight of the meeting and here are the meeting notes.

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Seedballs and Mountain View Community Center

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Seedballs 101

So today I attended the, Seedballs 101 with Ruby Sheffer, at the Dolce Verde Solutions Hub. It was a very interesting class. For those who do not know, seedballs are made of clay, potting soil, and a variety of seed species that are all rolled up into little balls. The balls can vary from the size of peas, Coco Puffs, or Whoppers candy balls. They look so much like candy balls that I almost ate one.

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PPG Community Garden, My Hole in the Ground, and Software Development

Friday, March 20th, 2009

PPG Community Gardeners Meeting
So yesterday the PPG had it’s monthly community garden meeting and it went pretty good. I arrived about 15 minutes late so by that time the participants had already broken into two groups. I joined a group and met Lisa and Cheryl who both work in the nursing industry. Lisa is a billing specialist and Cheryl is an infant care nurse. Both of them have little to no experience gardening but were really wanting to join the effort in starting something here in the valley by volunteering their time. So the three of us sat down and brain stormed a few ideas. Not that any of these ideas can happen now, but we thought it would be good to still put them out there and add to the idea bucket.

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Citrus Gleaning – 2009.03.07

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

So this was just another opportunity for Arizona Home Grown Solutions to pick some fruit from those who need it removed from their trees and donate it to those who need food to eat.

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Is Ning the Best Networking Tool Out There?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

So yesterday I attended a Steering Committee meeting for Arizona Home Grown Solutions(AZHS) organization and a lot of things were shared and accomplished. At the end a very good meeting was had. One of the things that came up was the possibility of trying to look at the technology that AZHS uses to organize and communicate with people.

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