Community Gardens

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• 33 year old Windmill Hill City Farm in Bristol, England, saved

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  See larger map image here. Celebrations As Bristol City Farm Is Saved By Hitting £50K Target Bristol Evening News December 21, 2009, A city farm in Bedminster has been saved from closure thanks to the public, who have helped raise £50,000 in just five months. The four-and-a-half-acre farm was started on ...
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• Vegetable Garden at Cook County Jail in Chicago

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  By Mr. Brown Thumb of Chicago Garden Excerpt: The last place you expect to see a vegetable garden is behind tall fences topped off with razor wire, but at the Cook County Jail there is a 13 thousand square-foot vegetable garden grown by inmates. This vegetable garden is a joint effort by The Cook County Sheriff’s ...
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• Growing Food, and Community, in the Desert

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 601
  Alissa J. Novoselicks students bonded over their shared love of chilies. Photo by nattu via Flickr. A cynic might look at a program like the Edible Schoolyard -- the much-lauded school garden initiative launched by Chez Panisses Alice Waters -- and wonder if such a thing would be possible outside the favorable ...
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• Common Good City Farm – Washington D.C.

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  New Growth in Ledroit Park by Amanda Abrams DC NORTH September 2009 Last year, when Common Good City Farm found out it had to leave its home on 7th Street, co-founder Liz Falk wasn’t sure where the project would wind up. Her feeler emails soliciting suggestions resulted in a response from someone she barely knew. ...
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• Season Closing Celebration at the Hattie Carthan Farmers’ Market

  
  Bed-Stuy Blog — Authority: 428
  December 19, 2009 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm Tomorrow the Hattie Carthan Community Farmers’ Market will host a Season Closing Ceremony and Celebration from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. They will thank the founder, many contributors, farmers and volunteers that have helped them create a successful marketplace with ...
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• Community gardens protection to expire next year

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 558
  From City Limits : With the termination looming next year of a legal agreement protecting community gardens across New York City, gardeners are working to formulate strategies for how to ensure that neighborhood green spots continue to flourish. They’re eager to avoid the pain of uprooting suffered by gardeners ...
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• Vietnamese Americans dream of a new urban farm in New Orleans but fear post-Katrina environmental hazards

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  High in iron and a mainstay in Southeast Asian cuisine in stir fries, Kokong or Vietnamese water spinach is traditionally grown along the edges of rice paddies. Gardeners in New Orleans East grow it along the canals near Michoud. Battling the Chef Menteur Landfill By Kari Lydersen Colorlines December 9, 2009 Tung ...
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• 46 Community Gardens in the Capital Region of New York

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  Noah Sheetz, Executive Chef of New York State picks some fresh produce from his plot at the Lincoln Park Community Garden in Albany. Photo by Michael P. Farrell Gardens ripe with tales of Albany – Urban community plots are a fertile ground for diverse crops and a variety of people By PAUL GRONDAHL Times Union ...
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• Raw Detroit Community Farms

  
  A Book Without A Cover — Authority: 129
  Please spread the word to anyone who would be interested! Hello all, I’m happy to announce that for all you die hard sunshoot fans out there or folks who want to continue supporting Detroit grown produce year round, you can still pick up a bag (or two or a flat) on a weekly basis at the Raw Detroit Market on ...
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• Birmingham’s Jones Valley Urban Farm – Making a Difference

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  Photo by Southernpixel. Spring-time at The Jones Valley Urban Farm – a community-based non-profit organization in Birmingham, Alabama. Utilizing over 3 acres of vacant downtown property, JVUF grows organic produce and flowers, educates the community about healthy food, and helps make Birmingham a vibrant community. ...
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• UPDATE: Brooklyn Food Coalition Bed-Stuy Action Alert! + Winter Party

  
  Bed-Stuy Blog — Authority: 428
  December 10, 2009 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm Hello Bed Stuy community, Here’s  information about our Bed-Stuy Farm Action Alert, the Brooklyn Food Coalition Winter Party, and the details of our next Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Council meeting. BED-STUY FARM ACTION ALERT You can help save Bed-Stuy Farm!  Please spread ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tree Lighting on Columbia street

  
  The Word on Columbia Street — Authority: 429
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• Roosters, Green Eggs, Bottled Pears and Rare Fruits

  
  Hills and Plains Seedsavers — Authority: 424
      The second Food Gardener’s Forum was held on 02/12/09 at Fern Ave. Community Garden in Fullarton. Meg Byrt has very kindly written these notes for us about what happened at this forum. Here is what Meg wrote: Three inspiring speakers addressed the audience assembled under the elm tree. In ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Secret Life

  
  Po-Po-Mo Ho (the post-post modern hoe) — Authority: 111
  Found something called " the Secret Garden " today in Bushwick. Its about an acre of land hidden away from the man made worlds city streets thats never been built on- EVER. Originally the Schaefer Beer family preserved it as their horses grazing lands and over the past century houses were built in a ring around it- ...
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