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• Window Farming Via Gothamist Via Coolhunting

  
  Po-Po-Mo Ho (the post-post modern hoe) — Authority: 125
  Check it out here . Ill have to definitely do more of this considering my apartment is so small. Mostly Im thinking about growing vegetables on the roof and then making a rain water retention system so as to not drag buckets of water up three flights of stairs.
  3 days ago

• Heart of Dryness: Climate Change Coping Strategies

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 474
  By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue Copyright 2009 Walker & Company, Excerpt from Heart of Dryness Circle of Blue’s “Water + Climate: Words” highlights literary investigations of water and climate intersections. As politicians debate the line-by-line contents of a global climate change ...
  4 days ago

• It Was Only A Dream

  
  Po-Po-Mo Ho (the post-post modern hoe) — Authority: 125
  So I dreamed of dirt last night. Please understand that Ive become the most boring girl in the universe. Or at least this destroys my north Brooklyn rep and I might as well now shack up with my old man, move to Prospect Heights and adopt from Guatemala. But it wasnt just any dirt! Specifically dreamed of constructing ...
  4 days ago

• Sustainability as a vehicle for education

  
  Sustainable Cities Network — Authority: 118
  Source: guardian.co.uk Photograph: Anita Maric/News Team International From “The sausage squad” by Chris Arnot, 27 October 2009 Gloucester Old Spots are thin on the ground in Coventry, UK. But then so are alpacas, pygmy goats, Jacob’s sheep or, indeed, sheep of any kind. Yet Cardinal Wiseman ...
  1 week ago

• Revolution Rock

  
  Po-Po-Mo Ho (the post-post modern hoe) — Authority: 125
  So heres a links to an old friends site on permaculture for renters , perhaps something I should have paid better attention to before I began my experiments in urban agriculture at last backyard. He and I met at a small school in Massachusetts for wayward children with revolutionary ideas. Now he runs this ...
  1 week ago

• Elements of Urban Agriculture – Jason King

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Jason King, is a Senior Associate at Greenworks and an enthusiastic landscape architect who shares his passionate views at his sites  Landscape+Urbanism and veg.itecture . He is also a member of the Sustainable Sites Technical Advisory Group (see our interview ). He has has just posted Elements of Urban ...
  1 week ago

• Fall for Garlic, Surprise Spring

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 108
  (Photo via Shepherd’s Notebook ) Les amis, you’re all invited to come and plant garlic with the FoodCycles crew Sat Nov 7, starting 10 am to 2 pm – directions are http://bit.ly/1GYyWQ . Please RSVP by Doodle ( http://doodle.com/5a9hztg32tmptgdc ) or email foodcycles@gmail.com . Check out the full post ...
  1 week ago

• OverWintering Vegetables

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 414
  With the first frost comes the need to harvest most vegetables. Our cold room is stacked with fruit and vegetables chilling out till it’s time to be eaten. Some vegetables can be overwintered in the garden , but there are a few steps to managing the crops that are left out in the cold. This year we are overwintering ...
  1 week ago

• FoodCycles for “A” Soil Education

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 108
  Vince McDermott did a short video on what FoodCycles does! Wow, he got a whole tour down to the “T” – haha, I couldn’t even pull that off. Get the full video at FoodCycles.org . Posted in Agriculture, Community Development, Compost, Environment & Sustainability, Food, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, ...
  1 week ago

• Nibbles: Chocolate, Bloggers, Tokyo rice, Breeding, Nutrition

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 478
  Yesterday was National Chocolate Day . Who knew? Not even the experts . Oxford 2009 ; report of the veg bloggers and breeders get-together. Ginza rice farm . What happened ? How do we fund plant breeding? You will let us know, won’t you. More Food May Not Mean Less Hunger . Say it isn’t so.
  1 week ago

• The real dirt on Farmer Wim’s clogs

  
  culiblog — Authority: 98
  Guess you could nail a shingle to any old shoe… On a recent trip to the border between rural and urban Amsterdam I got a look-see into the tamping-technique of Farmer Wim Bijma. He produces organic leafy greens that you can order online and pick up on site. Despite it’s reputation, it’s a beautiful bike ride ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food in a Terrorist EMP Crisis

  
  Gary A. Scott — Authority: 471
  Finding food and water could be a problem in a terrorist EMP crisis. Tuesday’s message at this site saw seven steps that could help us survive and prosper in a new era that could unfold if there would be a terrorist EMP attack. #1:  Move well away from the USA…. to an agriculturally based country.  This is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Philips Design’s ‘Food Probe’ Promotes Healthy Eating With 3 Concepts

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  Home Farming Pesticides. Genetic-modification. Mistreated animals. It could just about kill anyone’s appetite to hear about all the horrible news about food production. Fortunately, the emerging food revolution focuses on both health and re-establishing the connection between people and the food they eat ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kitchen Garden Workshop: Kinglake Temporary Village

  
  Sustainable Melbourne — Authority: 125
  Source: Climate Action CalendarImage: K. Archdeacon CC_attribution_share-alikeGet your garden plants sowing, for when the house and garden get going! Come and learn about growing in limited spaces such as planter boxes, tubs and wine barrels. You can have a garden, even in the midst of a construction site!There will ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blurring boundaries: farmland and vegie gardens

  
  Sustainable Cities Network — Authority: 118
  Source: The Ecologist , from “Room to grow: turning farmland into allotments “ by Dorienne Robinson, Oct 6 Image: net_efekt via flickr CC David and Kay Hicks run a small family farm, “Chyanhall”, in Cornwall (UK) with their daughter Carly. Just over two years ago they ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Roundup: LGBT Homeless Youth, Alternative Energy Theme Park, etc.

  
  Idealist in NYC — Authority: 415
  News from the past week: Arts Education and Graduation Rates (New York Times) Lanes for Buses Only, and New M.T.A. Chief Means It (New York Times) Ruling Eases Transgender Name-Change Process (City Room) Competing visions spark turf war in Longwood Park (Hunts Point Express) Green Energy Alternatives: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making Opportunities for City Farming

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 108
  There’s a city farming/urban agriculture conference called “Opportunities for Action: An Urban Agriculture Symposium” taking place in Guelph, Ontario on Friday, November 20, 2009. The event aims to inspire and find ways to move city farming forward. You can register at Backyard Bounty or contact Shannon Lee ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sky Vegetables Take Roofs to New Heights

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 108
  Sky Vegetables takes a slightly unique twist in rooftop gardening by covering all the administrative stuff, having others put in the equipment and make its money only from the sale of vegetables. What’s good is that it aims to use proven technologies like solar to help it take off. At the same time its pretty high ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sprout Community Market: November & December

  
  Sustainable Melbourne — Authority: 125
  Sprout holds a diverse and vibrant local Community Market on the first Thursday of each month (except winter & Jan)  at Sprout Community Gardens – corner of Clapham and Watt Sts, Thornbury (Mel ref 30 F4) from 3pm-7pm.Sprout Market has a variety of stalls (organically grown produce, dried herbs and plants; food ...
  3 weeks ago

• New York Has 10,000 Acres of Farmland

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 108
  Backyard farming – City of Toronto has 5000 ha (2500 acres) of rooftop space alone, Downsview Park has at least 500 acres – in Toronto there’s a huge amount of space to use – even using a bit would make TO a greener, more food secure place. Read the full post and see the video link at FoodCycles.org Posted ...
  3 weeks ago

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