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F&B Presents: MidTown Farm

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We are ready to grow. Please stand with us.

We started Flowers & Bullets in early 2012 to build a movement that relates to the lives we've lived and the places we come from. We felt it was important to share our skills in farming, community organizing and art with each other. We are from Barrio Centro, which we see as one neighborhood that the city divided into two: Julia Keen & Barrio Centro neighborhoods.

Flowers & Bullets blossomed into a sustainability and art collective that includes 23 families in the neighborhood. A few of our artists channeled their graffiti backgrounds into creating t-shirts to express themselves without the danger of being arrested. Then we expanded our sustainability component. We taught our community how to build backyard gardens, grow their own food, sell at farmers markets and eat healthier.

In four short years, some of our achievements include:
-Designing and running a successful t-shirt line.  
-Installing and maintaining 12 gardens in the neighborhood. 
-Helping at the annual neighborhood fiesta 2 years in a row.
-Running an annual prickly pear harvest where we show community members how to harvest from the desert and generate and income.
-Hosting a yearly art show.
- a neighborhood run where we support ceremonial community Calpolli Teoxicalli.
-Building countless relationships with community members and business owners. 

We are ready to expand and continue to serve people in the neighborhood.

Help support us realize our dream of creating the Midtown Farm!

Last year we came together with fellow neighbors to dispute a proposed sale of the only school in our neighborhood, Julia Keen Elementary School (closed in 2004). Penske trucking company sought use of the school for the parking lot. Julia Keen Elementary school was the heart and soul of our community and also the first school to be closed down by Tucson Unifies School District (TUSD) because of proximity to the flight path of Davis Monthan Airforce Base. At a TUSD meeting held on October 7th, 2015, we voiced our concerns that Julia Keen Elementary School represents much more to us than tar and asphalt. We were grateful when those plans were halted by TUSD and that the district was willing to consider an alternative solution in the form of a regenerative community space at Julia Keen.

After many months of community outreach, engaging stakeholders, and working on a proposal we are proud to announce that the community as a whole took a stance. On December 13th, 2016 the Tucson Unified School District unanimously voted to lease the former Julia Keen Elementary School to the Flowers & Bullets Collective and the neighborhood! Your contributions will support the revitalization of this space. Our plan is to work, in phases, the rehabilitation of the property (earth works, native/desert adapted plants, trees, murals, etc.) We will continue to work on our programs on a larger scale (now that we have a space!).

Your donation will help us build our capacity to realize our dream of having a space to grow fresh food, educate and heal our community, create and share art, and support ourselves economically.

Thank you again!

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Donations 

  • Athena Hagen-Krause
    • $230 
    • 5 yrs
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Organizer and beneficiary

Dora Martinez
Organizer
Tucson, AZ
Flowers Bullets
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