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• The geography of the Thanksgiving meal

  
  Legal Ruralism — Authority: 132
  The analysis in this New York Times piece is not along the rural-urban axis, nor is the detail presented sufficient to permit that analysis at a scale lower than that of the state. Nevertheless, this feature by Kim Severson, "Online: A National Thanksgiving Barometer" caught my eye and got me to thinking again ...
  3 days ago

• International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability to publish special Urban Agriculture Issue

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Forthcoming (mid/late February 2010) – Special issue: Urban agriculture: diverse activities, diverse benefits for city society (Craig Pearson) Editor in Chief: Jules Pretty OBE, University of Essex, UK The International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (IJAS) is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal ...
  6 days ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  6 days ago

• 7 Points for Fantastic Food and Cities

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 114
  Dr. Wayne Roberts spoke on food policy and a new vision for cities at Toledo Library in the US. As always his witty humour is always a hit. The photos he uses in the presentation are also quite insightful. Dr. Roberts also proposes hopeful solutions and answers to fixing cities and the food system. If you want the ...
  1 week ago

• Gardening from Second Base

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 114
  Natalia, a friend of FoodCycles and her sister Marcela are looking for volunteers to help develop a Community Garden Program at a homeless youth shelter in Scarborough (5 minutes from Kennedy subway station). Contact Marcela if you’re interested and read the details below. See the full details at FoodCycles.org . ...
  1 week ago

• Bolivia Urban Agriculture – FAO film in Spanish

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Bolivia Urban Agricultural Project FAO/UN film (in Spanish) about urban agriculture in Bolivia involving young people. This film shows an FAO initiative which is improving city dwellers’ lives by helping them grow their own food.
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• Incremental Change: the Ginza Bee Project

  
  Sustainable Cities Network — Authority: 119
  Source: Japan for Sustainability Image via tokyo green space From “ The Ginza Honeybee Project — Urban Development Inspired by Beekeeping ” by Yuriko Yoneda Ginza is one of the world’s leading downtown districts, complete with high-class department stores and designer shops. Ginza honeybees are ...
  1 week ago

• Illinois policy makers take urban agriculture tour

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Chicago’s City Farm. Illinois policy makers take urban agriculture tour Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) Posted: Nov 18, 2009 Chicago, IL (IDOA Release)–Policy makers will see and hear about the impact urban farms have on the communities that support them when they join the Urban Agriculture Tour ...
  1 week ago

• Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  “Sow and Grow” poster, Cleveland Public Schools Horticulture program. Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture Cleveland State University Libraries presents The Cleveland Memory Project A recurring theme in 20th century Cleveland that continues to the present day is that during difficult economic periods ...
  1 week ago

• Oakland and Urban Agriculture

  
  Pluck and Feather — Authority: 108
  The week is speeding by but before it is slips away, I must mention the food systems work happening in Oakland. A new report is out called Cultivating The Commons: An Assessment for the Potential of Urban Agriculture on Oakland’s Public Lands , by Nathan McClintock and Jenny Cooper. The report presents the amount ...
  1 week ago

• Story of Vancouver’s Olympic Village features urban agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  An artist’s sketch illustrates the possibilities for rooftop urban agriculture and the rich potential for community connection. Credit: Durante Kreuk, 2009 The Challenge Series tells the story of Vancouver’s Olympic Village at Southeast False Creek: Millennium Water. Published in eight monthly installments, ...
  1 week ago

• Growing Home – Chicago – providing job training through urban agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Growing Home is committed to bring fresh food to Chicago’s South Side. “Englewood, where our Wood Street Urban Farm is located, was once a flourishing Chicago neighborhood. It has suffered from decades of neglect and the flight of about 50% of its population since the early 1960’s. This dismal cycle of decline ...
  1 week ago

• Jac Smit (1929-2009) – Father of Urban Agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Jac Smit Passed Away Sunday, November 15 From Joe Nasr , co-author with Jac of Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities . Jac Smit, often referred to as “the father of urban agriculture”, passed away on Sunday November 15th at his Washington, DC home, a few days after his 80th birthday. After ...
  1 week ago

• Help Save The Bed-Stuy Farm In Brooklyn (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  The Bed-Stuy Farm in Brooklyn, NY provides 7,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables every month to around 4,000 residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where healthy produce is otherwise difficult to find.  Unfortunately, this vitally important urban farm is in danger of being torn up and paved over in ...
  1 week ago

• Landscape architecture professor travels 18,000 kilometres across the North America to study urban agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  PHOTO BY KAREN LANDMAN. In Milwaukee, the Growing Power organization offers tours of its urban farm to give people, especially children, a chance to see where their food comes from. Yes in My Backyard Landscape architecture professor Karen Landman hits the road to see how people in Canada and the United States ...
  2 weeks ago

• Symposium Explores Ways to Promote Urban Agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  University of Guelph – Opportunities for Action: An Urban Agriculture Symposium November 13, 2009 Academics, municipal planners, community activists, gardeners and farmers will gather at the University of Guelph next week to cultivate connections between city-dwellers and the food on their tables by encouraging ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas editorial – Urban agriculture, the next cool thing

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Sunshine Community Garden, Austin, Texas. The Dallas Morning News November 13, 2009 Did you know that more Texas kids are believed to be studying agriculture and agricultural science in urban and suburban high schools than in the state’s rural academies? As education officials told Dallas Morning News reporter ...
  2 weeks ago

• International Living Building Institute Addresses Urban Agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Radical Green Building Takes a Giant Leap Forward as The International Living Building Institute’s New Standard Addresses Social Justice, Urban Agriculture and Community Scale Impacts “The program introduces a new focus on urban agriculture, requiring a minimum amount of site square footage be dedicated to food ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aquinas University spearheads urban agriculture in Legazpi, Philippines

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  Philippines News Agency September 1, 2009 LEGAZPI CITY The Aquinas University of Legazpi (AUL) has implemented a project dubbed “Urban Agriculture through the High-Value Commercial Crops Techno-Demo Farm” within its expansive campus here. The project features 60-square-meter greenhouse where vegetables highly ...
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• Columbia (Missouri) Center for Urban Agriculture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 427
  The Road House: The home-grown food gurus Urban agriculture activists BY JORDAN NOVET The Missourian NOVEMBER 12, 2009 On a Monday evening, the scent of warm tomatoes permeates the kitchen of the Road House, a green-and-red building on St. Joseph Street. Bobby Johnson, Daniel Soetaert and Billy Polansky, half of ...
  2 weeks ago

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