welcome to the fertile underground

We are here to cultivate community, guerrilla gardening, art and urban agriculture. We coalesced as an intentional community back in January, and have been holding meetings once a week to plan and discuss our goals for this season. We have very little money but a lot of talent, energy, knowledge, vision, creativity, and ridiculous scavenging skills. Our goal is to transform derelict, abandoned, or neglected urban spaces into food and art gardens, and inspire others to join us.
So far, we have two sites to work on for the 2009 growing season: one larger site that we are leasing down on Pearl St., and a smaller site down off of Hope St. where we are guerilla gardening with some neighbors.
We are building our raised beds out of old railroad ties that we've gathered from down by the river, and we're getting our compost from the East Providence Public Works.
Tomorrow is our first Fertile Underground Work Day, over at the lot on Pearl St. We'll be building beds, filling them with compost, and sowing some of our seeds and seedlings. Come check it out!