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Cross-country ride urges White House to add organic farm
Photo from the Birmingham News: Casey Gustowarow and Daniel Bowman Simon are driving around the country in an eye-catching bus, topped with an organic garden, gathering signatures on a petition calling for President-Elect Obama to plant an organic farm on the White House Lawn. By Thomas Spencer...- Hoca
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A Compost Heap – Plant Canteen – 1944 cartoon
Watch Plant Canteen – A Compost Heap – 1944 cartoon 1944 Cartoon – Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries “Dig For Victory Leaflet No 7 Commentary – “Thanks Mr Middleton. Mr Middleton – Good Afternoon, we all expect vegetables to feed us but we’ve got to see that we feed them properly too...- Hoca
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Urban farming school takes root
Photo By Steve Bosch. Kent Mullinix is a sustainable agriculture specialist at Kwantlen College Institute for Sustainable Horticulture. Instruction would be based on intensive farming on small plots. By Larry Pynn The Vancouver Sun – 29 Nov 2008 A school of urban farming — a North American...- Hoca
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1937 – Children Boxing in an Allotment Garden
2nd July 1937: Children in the allotments of the London Children’s Gardens Fund at Clerkenwell take a break from gardening with their weekly bout of boxing. Larger image here.- Hoca
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São Paulo, Brazil – Cities Without Hunger – With employment and income, it all begins in a garden.
Already 13 gardens, 665 persons with direct benefit, 2,660 persons with indirect benefit, 48 professional training courses taught. São Paulo, a superlative metropolis, boasting impressive numbers revealing of its grandeur, riches, and differences too. A city that together with other 38...- Hoca
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BrightFarm Systems develops futuristic urban agriculture projects
GreenMarket sustainable food production facility, United Arab Emerates GreenMarket, UAE The GreenMarket utilizes BrightFarm Systems pioneering rooftop and facade mounted, sustainable greenhouse designs, to integrate hydroponic food production into civic buildings. The layers of vegetation...- Hoca
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Urban agriculture, poverty, and food security: Empirical evidence from a sample of developing countries
By Alberto Zezza and Luca Tasciottia Agricultural Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy Available online 14 May 2010. Abstract Urban agriculture may have a role to play in addressing urban food insecurity...- Hoca
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What’s in your basket? (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Katie and Melissa helped with this morning’s harvest of greens. So much more fun with friends… Here was the bounty we found in the field when we pulled up the insect nettings. And what we brought in. I wish I were doing a better job of weighing things, but greens are tough. They come in in...- Hoca
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What’s in Your Basket?
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What’s in Your Basket: Fruta Feia
Back in May, I read a great article in The New York Times (Minder, 2014) about a movement in Europe called Fruta Feia, or Ugly Fruit. It is an example of food politics at its finest. One part economic, one part environmentalist, one part social justice. “It has taken off with hard-pressed...- Hoca
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What’s in your basket? The Tomato Edition
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Lettuce as big as your head
We’ve been harvesting some monstrous heads of lettuce this week. Here are a few of our CSA folks with their share.- Hoca
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Ginger’s in the Ground
There’s been a lot going on around here. I feel alternately okay and guilty about not blogging more about it. I guess I feel like in year three much of what we’re doing has already been documented . It doesn’t make the miracles of growing any less amazing nor the commitment of those helping us...- Hoca
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Validation by Six Year Old
An important mission of our farm is demonstrating that good food, lots of good food, can be grown within city limits. I am particularly excited about passing this knowledge on to children, so they might imagine a new future for our public and private spaces. And so, it was with GREAT joy that I...- Hoca
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Field Notes 6.19.17
After a week away, it was good to be back home and at work. Sadly we had ZERO rain, but thanks to our irrigation system, we’re still growing strong. Napa cabbage was ready for harvest and Father’s Day cole slaw. We’re continuing to enjoy scallions from various sites around the farm...- Hoca
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