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Images courtesy of Long Beach Creamery.<\/em><\/p>\n On Tuesday, December 1 from 4:00PM to 9:00PM at Long Beach Creamery, Farm Lot 59 will kick off their annual end-of-year fundraiser to raise $15,000 to build a Children\u2019s Garden. 50 percent of every purchase from Long Beach Creamery will go toward the farm while attendees can also donate on-site. The event is the very beginning of the fundraising effort, which anyone can donate to online<\/a> until December 31.<\/p>\n “I would never have known if Long Beach liked organic ice cream without Sasha from Farm Lot 59 sharing her farm as the place to launch tastings,\u201d said Long Beach Creamery Owner and Founder Dina Amadril. \u201cFarm Lot 59 is a magical place in the middle of the city where you can connect with your food. The Children\u2019s Garden will add to the magic – and continue the farm adventures that Sasha has started for kids.\u201d<\/p>\n Alongside hosting the event at her shop, Amadril says she made a special ice cream in celebration of the kick off, using ingredients from, of course, Farm Lot 59. It\u2019s fittingly called #farmlotkids, a to-die-for flavor that uses the farm\u2019s honey in the ice cream base and features a thick fudge swirl spiced with chai and herbs, also from the lot. Edible flowers and microgreens from the farm will be used as toppings. Chef Art from Panxa Cocina<\/a> in Belmont Heights, who purchases produce weekly from the farm, will also be joining the fundraising event to provide delicious pastries.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the foodie it\u2019s going to be epic,\u201d said Amadril.<\/p>\n \u201cThey really need their own space where they can go and explore and pull all the carrots out and it doesn\u2019t [interrupt] our production,\u201d said Kanno. \u201cIf they have a special little area where it doesn\u2019t matter that they plant 50,000 onion seeds in one [session], then, go for it, kid. That’s where [the idea] came from.\u201d<\/p>\n The $15,000 Farmlot 59 seeks will be used to build four raised beds, a fence, an irrigation system and to purchase tools, microscopes and anything catered to the \u201csmall, little learner,\u201d says Kanno. One especially innovative feature she thought of to add are plexi sides to the beds \u201cso you can actually see inside the foil and see the microbial activity and see the worms from the side.\u201d Think ant farm, but more complex.<\/p>\n Kanno says that she\u2019s more than excited to start the process of funding and building the Children\u2019s Garden, that she hopes to host more field trips and learning experiences that are safe for the kids, especially with Andy on their team, a Berkeley-graduate and garden educator who joined the team this past summer.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that\u2019s really the big thing is that they can come now, but instead of saying, \u2018Don\u2019t touch anything!\u2019 we can say, \u201cHere, go in here and explore, get your hands dirty and really use it as your outdoor learning lab.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLike starting an ice cream shop, it is an ambitious project that needs community support,\u201d said Amadril. \u201cI’m glad to get a chance to return the favor and kick off the fundraising campaign for Farm Lot 59 Children\u2019s Garden. Come eat some ice cream and support #farmlotkids!”<\/p>\n To learn more about Farmlot 59 and their ongoing fundraiser, click here<\/a>. 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In the most delicious #givingtuesday partnership yet, local production farm Farm Lot 59 and everyone\u2019s favorite local organic ice cream shop, Long Beach Creamery, are joining together to throw one heck of a fundraiser for the sake of teaching our youth all about growing (food, that is).<\/p>\n![\"kidsgarden1\"](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kidsgarden1.jpg\")
Farmlot 59 Founder Sasha Kanno, who has been doing volunteer agriculture in town for nearly a decade, explained to the Post that the nonprofit is a production farm, meaning they sell their produce to local restaurants to support themselves. And now that the production portion of the farm has been established (it\u2019s been a five-year project since the farm was started in 2010) they can focus on ramping up their education programs, especially for the young, hands-on learners.<\/p>\n![\"kidsgarden3\"](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kidsgarden3.jpg\")
\u201cAnd we pay people to do stuff,\u201d she said. \u201cSo the $15,000 will go to materials, build, installation. I love my volunteers but in the end I like to pay people. People need jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n