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The VanGoGreen site has posted an author interview with me for the urban agriculture series I did on a Tyee fellowship. Questions are from Robert Oimet, the ace sound/vid man who put together CBC3. Check out the VanGoGreen site here. Even if you aren’t interested in our food future, or are too stretched to get through the [...] Home Grow-in's Colleen Belli gets it in writing The coolest thing about the new Home Grow-In grocery store in Vancouver (on the corner of 18th and Columbia) should have been its local-only approach. They sell the best of British Columbia’s bounty, including fruit and vegetables and eggs and cheese and jams and more. Then we heard [...] Fig Maestro Umberto Garbuio The largest fig tree in Canada is taking over a residential backyard in Burnaby, BC. Or it would be if it weren’t being expertly tended by its owner, Umberto Garbuio. Umberto gets hundreds of pounds of figs off his monster plant each year. He eats some, gives away some, makes jams and [...] Cam Macdonald wanted to do right by the planet when he went looking for a new vocation last year. His search took him right back to the farm. But he didn’t really come from an agricultural background, unless you count his indoor adventures with a certain herb. And his “farm” ended up being right in [...] We’re up and running…well not really running. But standing, and talking, to all kinds of lively people for a podcast series out to answer a simple question: Can Urban Agriculture Save the World? I’m doing it together with famed compost aficionado Spring Gillard, author of Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator, Edible Essays on City Farming. Hope you [...] |
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