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Urban Agriculture: Multi-Dimensional Tools For Social Development In Poor Neighborhoods

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

For over 30 years, different urban agriculture (UA) experiments have been undertaken in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). The Community Gardening Program, managed by the City, and 6 collective gardens, managed by community organizations, are discussed in this report. These experiments have different objectives, including food security, socialization and education. Although these have changed over time, they [...]

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New York City Urban Food Plan—A Blueprint For A Sustainable Food System

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

The Borough of Manhattan in New York City released a 46 page report on what a future sustainable food system would look like.
The report, a product of the NYC Food & Climate Summit held at NYU in December 2009, in partnership with the non-profit Just Food, outlines a package of proposals that will make New [...]

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Add Mushrooms To Your Garden

March 12, 2010 Organics

Ken Litchfield writes in the Oakland Tribune,
Mushrooms make tasty and beautiful additions to your garden, building soil, and providing food, health and aesthetics.
Adding mushrooms to your garden is easy, fun and exciting to diversify your garden space to include edible, medicinal and beautiful mushrooms.
While the average person can easily be confused about how to identify [...]

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CDC Uses Shopper-Card Data To Trace Salmonella

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

David Mercer reports for The Associated Press,
As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they [...]

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Detroit Wants To Save Itself By Turning Urban Areas Back To Farmland

March 11, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

The Associated Press reports,
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.
Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, [...]

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Fewer Farms To Feed Bay Area Locavore’s Appetite

March 11, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Justin Scheck reports in The Wall Street Journal,
Pocket-size farms have sprung up in cities around the Bay Area in recent years, part of a movement to bring consumers closer to the sources of food they buy.
But even as these small farms show up in urban neighborhoods, bringing with them a sense of a local agricultural [...]

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Monsanto’s U.S. Supreme Court Appeal: Could The Fix Already Be In?

March 10, 2010 Environment

We saw what good corporate citizens the US Supreme Court were a few weeks ago when they ruled 5-4 in favor of corporations, giving them the rights of free speech and personhood by allowing them to throw unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns and buy their own personal Congressional Representative or Senator.
Now the Supremes [...]

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Wine May Not Be Friendly To Vegetarians

March 10, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Steven Kolpan writes on Salon.com,
One of the biggest problems with the old red-with-meat, white-with-fish wine pairing advice is that it entirely misses the boat on vegetables, and of course wines work beautifully with even vegetarian meals. But before we talk about pairing Syrah with seitan or Albariño with avocados, there’s something you may want to [...]

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Triscuit Crackers Promotes Home Farming Movement

March 10, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Pay attention the next time you have the late night munchies, reaching for the box of Triscuit crackers and start chowing down without looking closely. Four million packages of Original and Reduced-Fat Triscuit crackers will include cards with basil or dill herb seeds that can be planted directly into the ground.
The new campaign by Triscuit [...]

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In A Few Short Years, Organic Has Become The Norm

March 10, 2010 Compost

It was just a few short years ago that organic gardeners and growers were looked upon as freaks of nature in the gardening world. Miracle-Gro, Roundup and Peters were the norm on the shelves of garden sheds in most places. Now, those products are kept out of sight and usually shunned at the garden center. [...]

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