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Tag Archives: urban agriculture
Criminal Vegetables?
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 … Continue reading
Farmers vs Lawyers
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged dirk becker, food security, illegal farm, lantzville, urban agriculture
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Guerrilla gardens going mainstream
Article from today’s Vancouver Province…can you say “usufruct”? Guerrilla gardens going mainstream.
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Tagged food policy, guerrilla gardening, province newspaper, urban agriculture, usufruct, Vancouver
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Usufruct Is Not a Dirty Word
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged city farmers, land rights, new food revolution, the tyee, urban agriculture, urban design, usufruct
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From garden city to farm city
The Vancouver Sun has an article in this morning’s paper about (kicking my instep and tugging my forelock in embarrassment)… me.
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Tagged environment, urban agriculture, urban design, urban farming, Vancouver
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Chicken Sit
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 … Continue reading
Will Allen Words of Wisdom
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged growing power, urban agriculture, urban farming, Vancouver, Will Allen
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Fight for Urban Farm
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged dirk becker, food, lantzville, nanaimo, urban agriculture, urban farming
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National (Urban) Farmers Union
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 Wednesday December 8th, 2010 NFU OPENS MEMBERSHIP TO URBAN FARMERS … Continue reading
Turnip Mystery
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? … Continue reading