Article from today’s Vancouver Province…can you say “usufruct”?
Guerrilla gardens going mainstream.
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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 [...] 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 [...] It’s never fun getting stopped and questioned by the border guards heading into the States, even when you didn’t do anything wrong. It’s usually more relaxing coming back into Canada. You promise you aren’t carrying any forbidden fruit, and you’re in. Not so with award-winning American journalist Amy Goodman. She not only got stopped on the [...] 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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