Village Improvement Association

Highlights from our March 14th Meeting
Hosted by the Environment Committee

Joe McCarthy from Reparation Earth, located in Northeast Florida, talked about skipping the dirt!
Using a self-contained aquaponics process, they grow vegetable crops and fish together in a re-circulating system. All of their all-natural vegetables are free from GMO’s, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. His sidekick Jenny also answered our questions.

Highlights from our February 8th Meeting
Hosted by the Health and Wellness Committee

Our Healthy YOU program focuses on your physical and mental health with guest speakers Barbe Kelly, a trained yoga specialist, and a mental health presentation by Jessica Hames MA, AP, PhD.

We wore RED to celebrate February as Heart Health Month and we collected female underwear ~ all sizes (children small up to large adults) which were donated to social workers for the Clay County School Department for distribution.

Highlights from our January 11th meeting
Hosted by the Arts and Culture Committee

The guest speaker was Florence Turcotte, the Library Manuscript Archivist and Curator of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Zora Neal Hurston Papers at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. Flo shared information about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and other interesting tidbits about her life as an archivist. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote her Nobel Prize-winning book, The Yearling, sixty miles from Green Cove Springs in Cross Creek.  She’s also known for her writings about her adopted home in Cross Creek where she bought an orange grove in the late 1920s and lived for many decades.