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"If you build it, they will come
If you teach it, they will learn
when you prove it, all others will
get on board."
Carl L. Hayman
Town Fork Creek Garden Academy serves as a supplement to public education. As a community-based private organization, we focus on the Black American perspective. Our core activities include: - **Gardening:** Growing your own food is the first step toward independence. — **Art and Craft:** Developing skills while having fun. — **Learning about Negro-Black American inventors, businessmen, and achievements.** Black Americans were more than just athletes, entertainers, criminals, and buffoons. We aim to teach our young children things not taught in many homes, schools, and churches. We aim to provide enriching experiences for our community.
How we got started
We, members of TFC Neighborhood Association, sent out fliers about our idea of starting an academy in the neighborhood. Not many responded, but those who did were receptive to this idea.
As a private neighborhood entity, we receive no government funding or corporation grants and with such a small budget, we plan on making a big difference in our community.
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TFC Garden Academy - Hot fun in the summertime.
Today, we face significant problems in our community, some of which are of our own making. First, let us define a community: a group of neighborhoods connected by political, economic, and cultural common interests.
I remember when people in my neighborhood felt confident leaving their homes unlocked and walking freely at night without fear. Today, we identify as African Americans, but before the civil rights movement and in the era of segregation, we had better parenting, schools, and more businesses than we do now.
Let us return to an era when black people were independent, with pride, honor, and a functional community, such as Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, or 18th and Vine Street in Kansas City, MO.
Carl L. Hayman
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