Bread and Roses Collective

, in Syracuse, NY: A beautiful old house on a quiet residential street, and another house that we got rebuilt recently for collective living. We subscribe to the idea of "Food, not Lawns" and have a beautiful kitchen garden out front, many raised beds for summer produce, various berry bushes and fruit trees in the back yard, and a bathtub salad garden on our driveway. We also have two plots at the local community gardens and grow most of our own vegetables in the summer. We also have a rain garden, five rain barrels, and four large compost bins (we will soon add two more). We have a strong commitment to social justice activism and community participation. We have hosted or participated in workshops on consensus process and democratic decision making, food preservation, composting, bike fixing, making salves and lotion, natural dyes, and more!
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Some of our current projects are building a brick path, walls and terraces in the back yard, and a ramp for the new house. In 2010, we won the "Green of the Crop" award for being the greenest project in Syracuse:
http://blog.syracuse.com/green/2010/05/green_of_the_crop_winner_bread.html