Southside Community Land Trust grows the future
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Urban solutions, food security, community supported agriculture, Gardening/Farming, community gardens, food production | No Comments »Congratulations to our friends at Southside Community Land Trust in Providence, as the recipients of grants totalling $600,000 in USDA grants and matching funds. That is fantastic news, and certainly will help in SCLT's efforts to expand and improve their ...
Garden page updates; Logsdon and Astyk on farming
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Gardening/Farming, community gardens, food production | No Comments »Our Community Garden page is (finally) updated. Check out what we've been doing since, um, March or so. Gene Logsdon looks at farming practices pre-"Green Revolution." and Sharon Astyk's long-awaited book, A Nation of Farmers, is now available. A review to ...
How a greener city gets growing
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in community supported agriculture, Gardening/Farming, community gardens, food production | No Comments »Inspiring story from The Baltimore Sun on a community garden project in the Baltimore area. We have a few plots left in the Wakefield/Peacedale, RI area, if you'd like to join a community garden here. Call Lisa at The Jonnycake ...
The Garden documentary Monday night at Jane Pickens in Newport
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in food security, Social Justice, Culture/The Arts, Gardening/Farming, community gardens | No Comments »The Garden, the Oscar-nominated film on the South Central LA community garden is screening tonight at the Jane Pickens theatre in Newport, at 7pm. This is a benefit for the Newport Community Garden. There is a reception beginning at 5:30. ...
A friendly permaculture critique of the Obama’s vegetable garden
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Gardening/Farming, community gardens | No Comments »Rob Hopkins of Transition Culture takes a look at the Obama's "kitchen garden." Here's the link.
A Yankee model for sustainability: Harvard, MA and Groton Local
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Community, Relocalization, adaptation, community gardens, climate change, peak oil | No Comments »This is an article in Planning magazine, the feature periodical of the American Planning Association. Author Christopher Ryan, a planner for the town of Ayer, MA, talks about the beginnings of a local sustainability movement in this area about 30 ...
Growing Power: Urban farming in Milwaukee
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Gardening/Farming, Community, adaptation, community gardens, food production | No Comments »Thanks to Ana for tipping me off to Will Allen and Growing Power. Will just won the MacArthur Fellowship for his work in creating a thriving urban farming project in Milwaukee.
Slow Food’s Carlo Petrini at SF’s Sanchez School Garden
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Relocalization, Education, Gardening/Farming, community gardens, food production | No Comments »This Lawn is Your Lawn
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Relocalization, Preparedness, Gardening/Farming, adaptation, community gardens, food production | No Comments »One man’s crusade to plough up the inner city
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Gardening/Farming, Community, adaptation, community gardens, food production | No Comments »Another urban farming visionary profile from the UK's Independent.