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Everything about this story is bizarre: from a woman being criminalized for growing food in her front yard, to the comment at 2:02 from a man with women’s ankles, to the fact that this important urban agriculture story is appearing on Fox News. YouTube – Woman Facing 93 Days In Jail For Growing Organic Vegetable Garden! [...]  The District of Lantzville on Vancouver Island has a curious method of dealing with the food INsecurity that’s inherent with islands but particularly there: it’s lawyering up in a battle to stop a couple from farming organic food. If there is a looming food crunch, from peak oil or peak soil or climate change or whatever…who [...] Article from today’s Vancouver Province…can you say “usufruct”? Guerrilla gardens going mainstream.
The Tyee – Usufruct Is Not a Dirty Word. Use a new word in three different sentences and it will become part of your vocabulary. Today’s lesson: usufruct. It means the right to use the fruits of another’s property provided one does no harm. It’s a noun, so it can be used in [...] The Vancouver Sun has an article in this morning’s paper about (kicking my instep and tugging my forelock in embarrassment)… me. Chickens scary? Yes, according to the woman who will babysit your flock while you leave your home in L.A. I’ll take bets on when we’ll get the first reality show dealing with the next logical development out of California to deal with psychologically underperforming birds: the Chicken Whisperer. The latest indulgence for L.A. urban gardeners: the chicken [...] Urban Agriculture Guru Will Allen Will Allen is in Vancouver rallying the urban agriculture troops. Today it included a meeting at City Hall, where Mayor Gregor Robertson is a former organic farmer himself. Even though inspirational Dutch urban planner Jan Gehl was in City Hall speaking in another room at the same time about sustainable urban [...] Is it a yard or farm? That’s the question being asked near Nanaimo and throughout British Columbia as a 2.5 acre organic farm has been given 90 days to shut down because…it’s a farm, when it’s supposed a yard. The area is zoned residential. But what do the words “farm” and “yard” really mean as we [...] Great news for urban farmers: The NFU is a critically important voice for farmers…and they’ve just decided that city growers ought to be part of the team. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [...] I did not just fall off the turnip truck. But these turnips did. A whole whacking pile of them, silently reeking away at an obscure street end in Ladner outside Vancouver. Why? What does it all mean? Is is nefarious? Is someone dumping turnips illegally? Are the producers trying to cut supply to drive up [...] |
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