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Seattle Urban Farm Company—Transforming The Seattle Urban Landscape With Edibles

March 14, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Seattle Urban Farm Company hopes to create many new sites growing food in the urban metro area of Seattle. The collective farming and gardening experience of SUFC can establish a productive organic vegetable plot in a client’s urban yard. SUFC gives a thorough garden consultation, answering a clients’ questions and giving the client new ideas [...]

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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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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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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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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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Three Acre Urban Farm Planned For Skokie

March 9, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

The urban farm movement is happening in large cities like New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Detroit. It is also happening in small towns like Skokie, Illinois as Mike Isaacs writes on the Skokie-Review.com,
The Skokie Park District is trying to acquire about three acres of property near Howard Street and the North Shore Channel that [...]

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What Does Sustainable Agriculture Look Like?

March 9, 2010 Environment

Here are some comments from traditional, conventional farmers who say sustainable farming has been “co-opted” or taken over by the organic movement. Some of their points are valid (such as the packaging one) but if they are still dumping hundreds of pounds of chemicals on their soil, I am sorry, I can’t classify you as [...]

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Urban Gardening In Baton Rouge

March 7, 2010 Organics

Sam Irwin writes in Country Roads magazine,
George Atherton of Baton Rouge knows he should have been a truck farmer. If you met him you would see a face tanned by the sun and inscribed with the lines that are the roadmap of the life he has lived. He is sixty-seven years old. The years must [...]

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Small Oregon Town’s Food-Sharing Garden

March 7, 2010 Kids and Gardening

Llyn Peabody AND Chris Burns write on Ten Rivers Food Web,
Alpine, Oregon (where we live) has been host to a unique community garden for a year (and is heading into its second). What makes this ’sharing’ garden unique is that, instead of many separate plots, that are rented by individuals, this garden is one large [...]

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What San Francisco City Hall Calls Compost, Activists Call Toxic Sludge

March 5, 2010 Compost

Carolyn Tyler of television station KGO reports on San Francisco’s free give away to Bay Area gardeners of treated composted sewer sludge,
A free program in San Francisco is under attack by a group of activists who claim the compost the city gives away to local gardeners is toxic.
It was quite a spectacle at San Francisco [...]

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