Green Corps is a work/study program supported by the Cleveland Botanical Garden. For the program, high school students work to transform vacant lots in the city into urban farms. The students are paid for their work and they develop work skills, leadership, and help build a healthier
Yesterday I worked on making a new image to represent the Food Font project. I attended a picnic over the weekend and I found lots of people who were willing to get a picture taken of their hand holding a piece of food. I think the image gives the message of food + creativity + commun
In talking about my new project Food Font I often mention the possibility of being able to use a food alphabet made of food, such as kale to make images, posters, signs, where you write with your food. I have learned that people have a strong opinion of kale – they either LOVE i
In honor of tomorrow’s picnics. A FRESH SWEET CORN – Food Font image. Each week I will be putting out a Food Font – type image to get the word out about the project. Feel free to share, post, and use.
I am currently trying to schedule some Food Font events with various farmer markets, farms, CSA groups, food stores and with other groups. The food alphabets can be made out of any type of food. At a farmer’s market visitors could be invited to make a letter out of their market purch
The kale font is edited and ready to go into the Food Font Interactive tool once built! I have learned that people either love or hate kale. I am on the love side of it. Go kale!
I created a Google Map for the Food Font site. Anyone can post an event or activity on the Google Map site. So far there is one current activity, and one past activity. I also figured out how to make a custom icon for the map. Check out the site today – and add an event if you a
Welcome to Food font! This is a test post for the site. I am very excited to finally be building the site. I have a lot to do – including: Building a backbone WordPress site Designing the interactive Food Font tool Doing Logo and branding work for Food Font Writing copy for my K
Over the Winter holiday – Kbaumlier and her family created letters out of their holiday dinner. Check out Aunt Marlene’s double-stuffed potatoes !! The letters are edited and formatted and ready to be loaded into the Food Font design tool when it is built.