Before their show at the Tin Angel, Oxfam joined Stephen Kellogg and The Sixers as well as Calling all Crows and local volunteers for a pre-show service project in Philly!
Volunteers built compost stations on a vegetable farm with Teens 4 Good at the North Light Community Center.
The farm was on a 1/2-acre piece of land at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Roxborough. What's so special about it? Well besides the fact that it's a local and small farm supporting the surrounding community, it also uses organic and sustainable growing practices and teaches these methods to local high school students!
The farm was on a 1/2-acre piece of land at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Roxborough. What's so special about it? Well besides the fact that it's a local and small farm supporting the surrounding community, it also uses organic and sustainable growing practices and teaches these methods to local high school students!
This project was part of Calling All Crows' Green Summer of Service campaign.
North Light Community Center enables people of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as productive and responsible citizens through initiatives that support and enrich children, teens, and families.
Calling All Crows partners with musicians, fans, and other organizations like Oxfam, to create change through hands-on service and activism. Founded in 2008 by musician Chad Stokes (Dispatch, State Radio) and tour manager Sybil Gallagher, Calling All Crows has raised over $250,000 to empower women in Sudan and Afghanistan and invested more than 17,000 hours of service in local communities across North America and Europe.
We had such a great time working with everyone and experiencing what maintaining a farm is like. No one realizes that the majority of farmers across the globe are actually women.
It's important that we raise awareness about the trials and tribulations they face every day while trying to make a living and keep their family alive. Together with these local small acts, we can raise awareness and funds to help others, like women farmers in the Sudan, flourish.
It's important that we raise awareness about the trials and tribulations they face every day while trying to make a living and keep their family alive. Together with these local small acts, we can raise awareness and funds to help others, like women farmers in the Sudan, flourish.
