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As if it wasn’t hard enough growing food out of the concrete jungle, consider the plague of the two-legged pest. Most of us have lost food at some point to the urban ingrates. Thieves may not not be our most destructive pest — slugs take more from me every year — but for mental [...]  The Vancouver Sun has an article in this morning’s paper about (kicking my instep and tugging my forelock in embarrassment)… me. 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 [...] Urban farmer in Cuba Three years ago it was a puzzle when the food price crisis starved millions. It was a time of record harvests; the world never had so much food. Turns out speculators — the same banks, hedge funds and capitalist investors who brought you to the brink of global financial wipeout — [...] 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 [...] Marilyn Tower, owner of Abbotsford’s Tower Foods, with some of the products seized from Vancouver’s Home Grow-In Grocer by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency due to alleged inadequate labelling. Credit: Doug Shanks — From the Weekender Home Grow-In, that cool little corner store on Columbia and 18th Ave that Spring Gillard and I podcasted about [...] 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, [...] |
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