Sowing reusable bags from donated cloth. The goal is to reach 1,000 bags. They were at about 100 during our visit on Aug 16, 11.

Sheila Billingsley Moser said the needs in the community have increased during the past few years. She said many of the people who once donated to CRC are now getting help there.

Beth Stewart-Magee, Basic Needs Supervisor: "We have a choice-pantry which is pretty radical. People come in and pick out their own food like in a grocery store."

Bill Owens, Executive Director: "This kind of social service agency just focuses on a geographic area which can be as large as a city or as small as a neighborhood."

Owens combines that local focus of providing services with policy advocacy on the municipal, state, and federal level.

Jean Byrd runs the resource center's community garden programs.

Bryan wants to be the king of Franklinton, We are officially union buster busters, and discussions about letting people not work

ft. Toofan (Togo), Nana Boroo (Ghana), Mr. Bow (Mozambique), Mokobe (Mali), and many more

Bob and Connie interview Kris Harsh from Stand up for Ohio about the Aug. 20 festival

Columbus Eastside resident Melvin Harris disapproves of a no trespassing sign and the newly placed fence at the large garden at Mound and Carpenter run by Four Seasons City Farm.

"There's no reason to put a fence around something that should belong to the whole community," Harris said.

He said he's never seen a fence around a community garden.
" I don't think that's fair to anyone in the neighborhood, especially (during) the times we're going thru now w/ people losing jobs and having problems paying their rent and getting food on the table for themselves and their kids."

Harris said people in this East Side neighborhood should be able to go to the garden and pick some vegetables w/o having to deal w/ a fence, so long as they help w/ some of the work.

After I had packed up my recording equipment, long-time community gardener Daniel Ingwersen arrived to the garden site.

He pointed out to Harris (and me also) that a portion of the garden was left unfenced, so that people in the neighborhood still had some crops, such as collard greens, which they could harvest whenever they want, regardless of whether they've helped w/ the garden.