10/10/10 is coming...that's right, October 10, 2010, is next week, and 350.org is celebrating with a "Global Work Party" where you are invited to do something in your community to help fight global warming.
Here in the Triangle, there will be work parties at the fields of six local farms, gardens and community gardens on October 10 from 1-4 pm. Each work party begins with a local foods potluck at 1 pm, and then the work begins. Party-goers can expect to work on the farms and gardens at seeding cover crops, weeding, harvesting and cleaning hen houses, for example.
What does working on a local garden or farm have to do with addressing climate change? Organizers say it's because we need to rethink the way we produce food on the planet--moving away from industrial agriculture powered by fossil fuels, and move instead towards small-scale, local, organic farming. 
How can you join the party? RSVP at this site, then go to the NC Conservation Network site for more information and to register for a particular farm. There are sites in East Raleigh, South Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Louisburg and Wendell.
When you go, you'll need comfy work clothes and shoes, work gloves, and bring a local dish to share along with your own plates/cutlery and water or drink of choice.
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