Learn How to Build Community Through Gardening With Urban Farmer Eugene Cooke!

The Center for Living Peace, a non-profit peace education organization, will be hosting a special workshop with urban farmer Eugene Cooke on June 11th and wants YOU to come! Join Cooke in discovering how you can build community in the garden and make good happen for your family, neighborhood, and the environment.

IRVINE, Calif., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- How do you reconnect your neighborhood, transform your family meals, unite generations together, and safeguard the environment? According to urban farmer Eugene Cooke, the answer is simpler than you'd expect: go out to the garden. "When we grow together, children, teachers, scientists, artists and leaders meet to nurture the life that we all value," says Cooke. It's time for us to learn easy and practical ways to grow together and make good happen in the garden.

Join Cooke on Saturday, June 11th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for 'Building Community in the Garden' at the Center for Living Peace! In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Build community through exploring ideas like ' what is a neighborhood?'
• See open spaces in your city in a different light
• Use plants to reclaim space for the public good
• Organize your own network for neighborhood food sharing
• Experience the joy of Community Supported Agriculture

To learn more and sign up, please visit: http://goodhappens.org/e/3075.

About Eugene Cooke

Eugene Cooke has been growing food and developing creative, community partnerships for over a decade. He believes that artistic expression and sustainable living are the keys to vibrant social systems. Working as an employee with national non-profits and schools inspired Eugene to create 'gebsite.com', which helps people grow their own food at homes, schools, churches, community centers and parks. Eugene has assisted in developing gardens and mini-farms in California, Georgia, Washington D.C., Oregon, Florida and Kenya. He has been teaching visual art, environmental and agricultural science to children and adults for over 10 years.

To learn more, visit www.goodhappens.org or visit us at 4139 Campus Drive Irvine, California 92612 // Tuesday-Saturday from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

CONTACT: Sabrina Talukder, +1-949-854-5500, [email protected]

SOURCE The Center for Living Peace