elderly hands
Classie Eases the Pain of Economic Bites
Besides growing herbs that ease ailments, Classie Parker heals the mental health of a world in crisis. Where most aspects of our lives are negatively affected by the economy, Classie replaces those voids with activities that are not only better for us, but cost less than what we’re use to. One example is the healing herbs grown in her neighborhood garden. She reports that herbs used for easing the symptoms of arthritis are popular among older gardeners. The general belief that healthy eating leads to healthy bodies is another reason Classie’s gardens will only better the world around her.
{cc photo courtesy of Rosie O’Beirne on Flickr}
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Classie is Preserving the Community
Classie caught the eyes of the Etsy community who decided to show case her caring and infectiously giving nature. She has worked to save community gardens in her home state of New York and helps others do the same in their own communities. She offers community classes on gardening and canning to show even the brownest thumbs that gardening truly is for everyone. She proves that berries aren’t the only thing worth preserving, community spirit is worth saving as well.
The Canning Queen of the Desert from Etsy on Vimeo.
{Sources: Urban Habitat, Etsy and Classing Up the Neighborhood with Green}
About Vivian Nelson Melle
Classie Parker is a fraud. She and her personal entourage use the community garden for their own profit. There are NO times that the public is let in. There are no members, therefore no one can sit in the gardern. There is no key distribution. The boxes of vegetables are in the back of the garden. This is so not to be seen from the street. People would see that ALL the produce is grown for her own profit.
There has never been a membership drive. She claims it to be her own property, except when she wants to get credit for being a humble, down home girl. HELP THE PEOPLE ON THE BLOCK GET WHAT THE CITY WANTS TO GIVE THEM! SHE IS THE NEW FORM OF POVERTY PIMP!