Annabel's Victory Garden❤️

PBI 20th Anniversary

Greetings!

What was accomplished in 2020 by Annabel's Victory Garden?

No doubt about it, Covid is a brutal and savage wake-up call for all of us by highlighting the vital need to increase community resiliency.

For PBI's Local Food program, that meant building the 1,600 sq ft Victory Garden this year in collaboration with the Philmont Co-op, delivering free harvests directly to the community in partnership with the Philmont Library, supplying free Victory Garden harvests to the Sylvia Center's cooking classes, making sure kids eat better. We created a garden plan with our program lead gardener, Taylor Kurtz, to increase community resiliency by demonstrating how to produce great local food from a raised-bed kitchen garden flourishing in the heart of the village's downtown.

Making a donation to this appeal will ensure Annabel's Victory Garden achieves programming for 2021 and contributes towards PBI's end-of-year funding $20,000 goal.

What's on the Victory Garden's drawing board for 2021?

If the garden makes its funding target, it will ensure that 10 additional low-income households with kids will be able to take the kids' cooking classes; free harvesting for the cooking classes will increase to supply four consecutive six-week cooking courses with the Sylvia Center from May-November. A planned resiliency course of workshops can take place in the garden in partnership with the Philmont Library. We will assist Girl Scout Troop 1008 to create a designated raised-bed to teach tea making from florals, continue free harvests to the community free coolers at the Victory Garden and at the Philmont Library, support a series of planned garden workshops to teach growing salsa and canning raised-beds, solar pizza making, and produce a community harvest dinner to celebrate the garden and community in the early fall.

If you're able to make a donation this year that would be awesome! Large or small, every penny is a truly appreciated donation towards collectively achieving the garden goals for 2021.

Take care, and please stay well,

Sally Baker, Co-founder, Executive Director

John Gourlay, President

Carolyn Stern, Co-founder, Secretary

Kate Martino, Co-founder, Treasurer

Over the next four weeks, our end-of-the-year appeal will include one newsletter a week telling the story of what took place in 2020 and what lies in store for 2021. We hope you will join in celebrating PBI's 20th Anniversary year with a donation, large or small, as every penny counts towards continuing the work of revitalization in the village with your vital support.

See the 20th Anniversary - walk down memory lane

Philmont Beautification, Inc.

PO Box 1072

Philmont, NY 12565

t. (518) 697 0038

www.pbinc.org

CURRENT PROJECTS

The Kitchen at Philmont - LOCAL FOOD

Philmont Rising - SPECIAL PROJECTS

Mom & Pop Shop Project - SMALL BUSINESS & HOUSING - 116 Main St

PBInc.org is a grass-roots 501 (c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to improving quality of life in the Village of Philmont with community collaborations that successfully integrate Housing, Local Food, Small Business, and Special Projects to implement revitalization and renewal in the Village of Philmont and surrounding areas.

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