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Sometimes the headline writer gets it more than the journalist. The snappy term “agro-imperialism” doesn’t appear in Andrew Rice’s NYT Magazine piece on the rich buying the earth from under the feet of the poor. Although Rice does mention GRAIN, a dedicated non-profit supporting small farmers and social movements, his article leans heaviest on the side [...]  An interesting entry in the Reburbia contest asking designers to imagine better ways to use the suburbs: “One can imagine pushing a shopping cart through this suburban farm and picking your produce right from the vine, with the option to bring your harvest to the restaurant chef for preparation and eating your harvest on the spot.” via [...] 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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