Hey Roots Down community.

Greatful for life!!!

Enjoyed last night's presentation and brainstorming at Refuge Coffee in Clarkston! Looking forward to future gatherings.

We went out to the Cottages on Vaugh today to begin prepping their garden beds for spring! This site is just a 2 years out since it was developed, and the soil is still pretty compacted from the grading and machinery used during construction. For this reason, we had to bust out the heavy artillery a

So glad to celebrate this year and all the progress towards Fruitful Communities in DeKalb alongside GreenHive members from both cohorts! This year wouldn't have been the success it was without their advocacy !!! We couldn't get all GreenHivers in attendance in the picture- if you attended drop your

#Gnometober22 @rootsdownga A couple of plump figs found above Finneas gnome home.

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Attended such a great lecture tonight from Dr. Jelks from Spelman University, as she spoke on health inequities in relation to climate changes. Truly a pleasure to hear her speak on the significance of more green landscapes, race disparities in city red lines zones, rising heat temperatures in the

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Let's do this! Choose from the list below which book you want to read first.

The Beautiful Vineyards & Winery

We are onboarding the awesome DeKalb County Facilities Management team right now!!!! Woot woot!

Oh yeah! We also found a whole bunch of oyster mushrooms on logs from a recently cut down tree on site and shared the bounty with the locals. Nature provides!!

Thanks to everyone involved - what an inspring night of celebration and community! 💚

Sprucing up the Cottages on Vaughn today! As you can see in the last photo, the mulch we put down in the spring had faded to a greyish color, making everything look kinda bleak. Not only does the brown mulch and pine straw make all of the plants pop, it also insulates the soil from major tempe

Visiting Rita's gnome home for #Gnometober22. Listening and listening small voices talking @rootsdownga

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 The GreenHive is back for week 6 as our leaders will learn this week how to use art as activism! Whose ready to get creative ? Stay tuned for their amazing posts on "how they use art as a form of activism". Let's go GREENHIVE! @AlonzoHernandez @Noni Aminah V. @Amari Fuller @Mya Swaby @Cameron

For this assignment, I thought it would be the perfect time to formally introduce my past entrepreneurial endeavor known as Contraband Clothing.  I have always been surrounded by advocates for human and civil rights but at 14, is when I began to take activism into my own hands. I knew I wanted to sp

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Live from today's Member Roll Call.