Tag: Community Gardens - Page 6
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Apple Day at Roots and Shoots
It's Apple Day at Roots and Shoots--a double celebration. Firstly, Apple Days--every autumn there are a string of Apple Days held all over Britain which focus on the heritage of English apples. There are over 2,000 kinds of apples growing in small
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Rare Plant Thought Extinct Re-discovered in Upstate New York
A salt-marsh plant thought to have vanished from upstate New York is back. But it has not come back to the inland salt marshes, of which only four remain (three in New York and one in Michigan). Rather, the
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Jargon Watch: Hyperlocalized Agriculture
We often talk about local food being good for our health and our farmers; John Robb of Global Guerrillas, a site that normally talks about war and defense, gives a good reason why really local farming, i.e. right in cities and suburbs, is important:
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Book Review: Live Generously
"Something is better than nothing." This is the unofficial motto of the Live Generously project, whose very basic premise is to encourage enough small 'somethings', such that their aggregated whole becomes a Tipping Point. It "is about wanting
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The Green Living Manifesto - Green Building Beyond Buildings
When we interviewed Greg Searle of One Planet Communities North America, it was yet another affirmation of what TreeHugger has believed all along — namely that green buildings or sustainable technologies are not enough in themselves - social
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Healthy, Living Soils - Tools and Techniques to Safeguard Our Future
We all know that healthy soils are a central part of sustainability. From carbon sequestration to increased crop production, it's hard to overestimate the contribution good soil can make to our collective well-being (or the damage that can be done by
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UK Town Embraces Urban Farming on a Massive Scale
With the UK's chief scientist warming of a looming food crisis, and with consumers around the world changing their eating habits in the face of increasing prices, the need to find alternatives to our current food system
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Permablitz: Near Instant Permaculture for the 'Burbs
Permaculture is a tricky thing to define. (See our attempts here.) Kinda like trying to describe a forest. All that interdependency is just too complex to squeeze into a sound bite. But that doesn't stop Permablitz from trying:
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Nature Calendar: Urban Environment Guide
Nature Calendar announced their launch this week with a worthy goal: "to highlight both the natural resources and species of metro-area ecosystems, starting with New York City, and the work of the dedicated people, both professionals and volunteers,
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A 30th Birthday Party, The Permaculture Convergence
Permaculture is a practice we’re rather partial to here at TreeHugger. It is a concept that defies simple definition, but has to do with designing human spaces, and particularly food production, so as to optimise lessons learnt from nature. Originally
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Farming the Concrete Jungle
Late last month Phoebe Connelly and Chelsea Ross authored an article with the above title in the magazine, In These Times. It is an excellent treatise on the state of play of urban farming and community agriculture in the USA.
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Urban Renewal, the Philly Orchard Project Way
Philadelphia has 40,000 vacant lots and 700 empty factories. A legacy of globalisation as jobs went instead to lower paid workers in Asia and Latin America. The Philly Orchard Project sees these space not as an eyesore but as massive opportunity. Their
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Chefs, Cassava and Cows Down on 'The New Farm'
Here are just three of the many thought provoking stories we spotted, a bit late, in the August rendering of New Farm's online offerings.
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Futurefarmers Victory Gardens
Futurefarmers is a collaborative group of designers and artists exploring the relationship of concept and creative process between interdisciplinary artists making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us. Their current project is
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Carrboro Greenspace: Another Community Project Faces Eviction
TreeHugger is a big believer in community, and community environmental action. We've just posted our guide on How To Green Your Community, and a big part of that revolves around the creation and preservation of community gardens, city farms, and other
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Offshoots Permaculture Project
We've covered permaculture a good number of times before. We've seen a movie demonstrating the potential to grow food in desert regions, we've talked with permaculture practitioner Benjamin Fahrer at the Table of Free Voices, and we've seen the work of
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The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
We love community gardens. And we love city farms. It pretty much goes without saying then, that we love the UK-based Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens. Describing itself as "the representative body for city farms, community gardens and
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Australian Community Foods - Eating Locally
A friend came visiting the other day, proffering this bag of goodies. But they weren't for me — she just wanted to borrow my fridge! On the way over, she'd observed a Farmers Market and couldn't resist stopping in, to pick up some fresh
