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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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American As Apple Pie? Not Necessarily

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Another result of our homogenized industrial food system is the declining number of varieties of apples commercially grown as Gary Nabhan writes on Grist.com,
You’ve heard the hackneyed phrase “as American as apple pie.” But America is not taking care of the apples — or the orchard-keepers — that have nourished us for centuries. In 1900, [...]

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Corvallis Local Foods

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

I am fortunate to live in the mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon. Fortunate in that, it is literally a bread basket of food. Someone did some research into what could be grown here and over 80% of the food consumed here could be grown here. Obviously tropical things like avocados, mangoes and bananas can’t, but most [...]

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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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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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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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