Greenbelt Shares Cooperative Roots with Early U.K. Activists
October is Co-op Month and Greenbelt has perhaps the largest concentration of cooperatives per capita anywhere in the U.S. With seven varied co-ops, the city epitomizes the cooperative spirit. City cooperatives include the Greenbelt Co-op Supermarket & Pharmacy, Greenbelt Federal … Read More
Council Looks at ARPA Funds, Signatures, Pumpkins, SPACE
On Tuesday, September 27, Greenbelt City Council presented a proclamation to representatives of five of the city’s seven cooperatives, reaffirming council’s support at the start of Cooperative Month, and also recognized Hispanic Heritage Month and the city and library activities … Read More
Celebration of Public Lands Day Brings an Awareness of Nature
Volunteers celebrating National Public Lands Day at Springhill Lake Recreation Center Saturday cleared Greenbelt’s Food Forest of pandemic overgrowth and damage from summer storms. Uprooting invasive stilt grass, they revealed native ferns. With gloves and shears, they freed trees of … Read More
Susan Ives, Living New Deal Editor, Visits Greenbelt Sites
Susan Ives, who works with the Living New Deal (livingnewdeal.org), came to visit Greenbelt from Berkeley, Calif., and visited many historic Greenbelt institutions, including the Forest Preserve, New Deal Café, Greenbelt News Review, Old Greenbelt Theatre, Greenbelt Co-op Supermarket, Greenbelt … Read More