A nice profile of Will Allen and urban farming. There are great quotes in this article and a terrific example of ways to re-think “conventional wisdom” .
“We need 50 million more people growing food,” Allen told them, “on porches, in pots, in side yards.” The reasons are simple: as oil prices rise, cities expand and
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WASHINGTON — On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.
via Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable
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Hank Shaw, at Hunter Angler Gardener Cook offers a look into the world of “honest food” as he describes it. A well versed writer, sportsman, and site editor about About.com’s Fish and Seafood Cooking site, he bios himself:
I am especially interested in those meats and veggies that people don’t eat much any more, like venison
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Amy Farnsworth of the Christian Science Monitor shares this view of a mid winter Rhode Island farmers’ market:
This desire is one of the main reasons farmers’ markets are increasing, up some 300 in the two years between August 2006 and 2008, as the total number surpassed 4,500 according to the US Department of Agriculture. And
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There is a growing discussion on line and in traditional media about rural affairs. Sometimes even the pursuit of a “simpler” life still requires paying attention to more global issue. Steph Larsen posts this on the Blog for Rural America
The sustainable local food system we are trying to build relies on an abundance of small,
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