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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 [...]
The U.K. government plans to launch a “grow your own” revolution by encouraging people to set up temporary allotments or community gardens on land awaiting development or other permanent use. via Grow your own food revolution plans to seed unused land | UK news | guardian.co.uk. Haven’t seen it but the description sounds inviting: HomeGrown is a film about a family living off the grid in L.A. It shows how they pulled 6,000 lbs of produce out of a quarter-acre urban lot, according to the producer. Not that a producer would lie, or that it matters how some folks don’t believe in [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Here in Vancouver the prospect of allowing backyard chickens got some residents all aflutter. In the UK they’re talking about home-raised pigs. A yard big enough for a medium-sized dog, says one expert, is big enough for Porky, although they’re party animals so you want to keep more than just one. Link to the Guardian story, [...] 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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