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Tag Archives: urban farming
Pilfered Peppers
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-theft strategy, community gardening, community gardens, garden theft, guerrilla gardening, new york times, thieves, urban farming
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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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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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Food plus Banks equals Hunger
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged banks, farm, food, hedge funds, hunger, politics, speculators, urban farming
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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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Home Groan
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged home grow-in grocer, home-grown, local food, organic, urban farming, Vancouver
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Pig In
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 … Continue reading