{"id":11442,"date":"2011-04-27T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=11442"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:08:17","slug":"st-louis-farmer-nrdc-growing-green-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/st-louis-farmer-nrdc-growing-green-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Young St. Louis Farmer Snags NRDC Growing Green Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KE9xdl1WGRE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, I spent several months volunteering with a new non-profit organization dedicated to small-scale, local food production&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthdancefarms.org\/\">EarthDance<\/a>. The organization&#8217;s founder, Molly Rockamann, was a total powerhouse of energy and passion&#8230; I had trouble keeping up! Though I couldn&#8217;t give the organization the time it needed, I really loved the concept: getting urbanites and suburbanites onto the land via apprenticeships to carry on knowledge of agriculture that&#8217;s quickly being lost in the US. I had no doubt the idea would work.<\/p>\n<p>So, I wasn&#8217;t completely surprised (but was very pleased) to see that the NRDC had awarded Molly one of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/health\/growinggreen.asp\">&#8220;Growing Green&#8221; awards<\/a>: she won in the Young Food Leader category. <!--more-->I could go on and on about how cool this is for the region, and for Molly and her organization, but don&#8217;t really need to: part of the honor she received was the opportunity to write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onearth.org\/blog\/old-roots-spring-anew-in-young-farmers\">a post for the OnEarth blog<\/a> about the inspiration for EarthDance. I&#8217;ll leave it at &#8220;Congratulations!&#8221; and &#8220;Well-deserved!&#8221; and let you read her thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Know of other twenty-somethings doing great things in the food movement? Let us know about them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Kids need Summer footwear? Check out our selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/clothing\/shoes\/birkenstock\/kids-birkenstock\">Birkenstock sandals<\/a> for them&#8230; including the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/choices\/birkenstock-kid-s-boston-suede-clogs\">Boston clog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KE9xdl1WGRE[\/youtube] In 2009, I spent several months volunteering with a new non-profit organization dedicated to small-scale, local food production&#8230; EarthDance. 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