Showing posts with label urban farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban farming. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
SLUG - How Cute/Gross is That!?
Sacramento League of Urban Gardeners: working to bring equality through access to healthy foods. That's thinking big picture! In Sacramento News and Review, 4/29/10 Local Eats, Low Incomes
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Great History of Sacramento Garden, Food and Community
Great Article by Bill Maynard, in Edible Sacramento, Spring 2010 on Sacramento's support of Garden, Food and Community. Bill is also the local contact for ACGA - American Community Gardening Association, check out their Annual Conference in Atlanta next month.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Still Time for Am. Community Gardener Annual Meeting!
Plan now to attend the 2010 31st Annual Conference of the ACGA, ‘A Holistic Approach To Building Sustainable and Healthy Communities Through Gardening: The Choice Is Yours.‘ Read more about the conference.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
"Sponsored" Plantings - Sustaining the Community
One of the Artists-in-Residence this season shared with me some thoughts about perpetuating the bounty of the garden beyond this year and beyond that. Sounds good to me, here's the thought:
He wants to "sponsor" the planting of 10 strawberry plants and the reasonable cost of their annual care -- about $50 -- plants that will produce for familes to come; in exchange for 10 baskets of strawberries as his sustenence-investment "interest". Something between Heifer International and carbon credits!
I love the idea of planting the seeds and food of the future, and the sense of community our shared "investment" will drive. And, on a less grand scale, I like it that you folks, to some degree, could focus in on foods you want but can't grow/get and I'd get to try some thing I wouldn't already have tried.
Let me know what your interested in seeing planted; on your behalf, for many.
He wants to "sponsor" the planting of 10 strawberry plants and the reasonable cost of their annual care -- about $50 -- plants that will produce for familes to come; in exchange for 10 baskets of strawberries as his sustenence-investment "interest". Something between Heifer International and carbon credits!
I love the idea of planting the seeds and food of the future, and the sense of community our shared "investment" will drive. And, on a less grand scale, I like it that you folks, to some degree, could focus in on foods you want but can't grow/get and I'd get to try some thing I wouldn't already have tried.
Let me know what your interested in seeing planted; on your behalf, for many.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
For those who care for Birds and Gardens
Loved this article from Audobon about yard as environment/ecosystem.
"What is a Healthy Yard?
A healthy yard is not really a "yard" at all. It’s a habitat, a sanctuary for wildlife and for you and your family. A healthy habitat provides a natural haven beneficial to birds, other creatures, and people, and is an extension of your home and part of a larger ecoregion. Learn how to be a responsible caretaker of your piece of the earth."
"What is a Healthy Yard?
A healthy yard is not really a "yard" at all. It’s a habitat, a sanctuary for wildlife and for you and your family. A healthy habitat provides a natural haven beneficial to birds, other creatures, and people, and is an extension of your home and part of a larger ecoregion. Learn how to be a responsible caretaker of your piece of the earth."
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Great article on urban neighbor food sharing
I love this concept. Let's think about how we can have a neighbor(hood) exchange barter market....
"...It was just another day of urban fruit foraging for Ms. Wadud, one of a growing number of people who looked around their cities, saw trees full of fruit and thought, “Delicious.”
A year and a half ago, Ms. Wadud, who studied urban sociology in college and bartended at Chez Panisse, began organizing a little neighborhood fruit exchange called Forage Oakland. She did it as much to build neighborhood relations as to get her hands on some of that fruit.
It works simply. A woman with a yard full of lemon trees, say, can share her bounty in exchange for a paper bag full of someone else’s persimmons when they come into season. So far, 200 people have signed up...." Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/dining/10Fruit.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=neighbor%20can%20you%20spare&st=cse
"...It was just another day of urban fruit foraging for Ms. Wadud, one of a growing number of people who looked around their cities, saw trees full of fruit and thought, “Delicious.”
A year and a half ago, Ms. Wadud, who studied urban sociology in college and bartended at Chez Panisse, began organizing a little neighborhood fruit exchange called Forage Oakland. She did it as much to build neighborhood relations as to get her hands on some of that fruit.
It works simply. A woman with a yard full of lemon trees, say, can share her bounty in exchange for a paper bag full of someone else’s persimmons when they come into season. So far, 200 people have signed up...." Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/dining/10Fruit.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=neighbor%20can%20you%20spare&st=cse
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