Tag: Community Supported Agriculture

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  CSA Now Delivers By Sailboat to Cut Carbon

  A sail-powered CSA delivery scheme shows how low carbon transportation can become a brand asset.

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  Turning Vacant Lots into Profitable Urban Farms in Minnesota

  An urban farming project in the Twin Cities is converting abandoned lots into food producing gardens.

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  Cutest Stop Motion Videos Briefly Explain the Concepts Behind the Solidarity Economy

  Created with everyday objects, they explore subjects like housing collectives, worker coops and community supported agriculture.

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  Urban Agriculture As Economic Stimulus: Help Grow a People-Funded Farm (Video)

  Community farming is not altruistic do-gooding. This NC collective argues it's about rethinking our entire food system.

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  New Yorkers Called on to Eat Local to Support Irene Hurt Farmers

  In the last few years, New Yorkers have developed quite a taste for locally farmed fruits and vegetables. Much of the thanks go to the efforts of GrowNYC, the

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  From Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School Garden in Denver (Slideshow)

  School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient and needs work before it can support growth of

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  From Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School Garden in Denver

  School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient and needs work before it can support growth of plan

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  Cicada Ice Cream Proves We Need More Information About Eating Insects

  Cicada ice cream made a big buzz on the web this week. While misinformation flooded the net blaming the health department for shutting down Sparky's newest flavor, TreeHugger's Bonnie gave you the straight dope: the Columbia,

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  Sarah Rich on Local Food and Disruptive Technology (Podcast)

  Sarah Rich is a former senior editor at Dwell magazine, the creator of Longshot Magazine, and the co-author of the WorldChanging book. Sarah's journalistic obsession pivots around design, urban agriculture, technology, and new media. She tells

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  The 2011 Spanish Revolution; How Protesters Organise Themselves to Be Green (Photos)

  The Indignados (or "Outraged") have been camping in over 60 Spanish cities for almost 10 days now. What started on the 15th of May (hence the tag #15-M) via social networks has become some of the biggest and most peaceful

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  Big Bakery Chain Panera Embraces "Pay-What-You-Want" At Three Cafés

  You might think a pay-what-you-want café could only fly in a place like Portland, Oregon, where the streets are thick with bicycles, the homeless rate is one of the nation's highest, and

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  Music And Food Are Inseparable at Localmotive Farm

  Sami recently wrote about a Viral Organic Farm Rap Video... from England (Video); Canada has its own Singin' CSA, the Localmotive Farm in in Coldstream, Nova Scotia. Musician Keith Mullins and Plant Scientist Jody Nelson claim that Localmotive Farm is

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  New York City Gets Serious About Local, Sustainable Food

  When New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the 59-point-plan, "FoodWorks," yesterday, she unveiled the city's latest move to reduce its environmental footprint, and boost the local economy and health of

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  Sociopolis, the Rurban Housing Project Brings the Campo to the City (Photos)

  Inhabiting the Huerta. Photo Credit: Guallart Architects Five years ago, we first heard about Sociopolis, a "shared habitat" in Valencia (Spain). This housing development is to trigger social interaction between inhabitants, propose a new type of

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  Heritage Vegetables are So Trendy In New York That Sotheby's Is Now Auctioning Them

  Sotheby's New York Auction House is holding an Art of Farming sale to support farmers' organizations in the New York state area. The items on the auction block are so amazing that you will want them all! Consider: cocktails and

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  What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)

  "Barter, Swap, or Pass on this Book." These are the first words you see on opening What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Printed on the inner jacket of the book, in the style of a

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  Baltimore Appoints a Food Czar

  Baltimore is a set beset by "food deserts"—vast urban areas without access to anything but fast food, snack cakes, bags of chips, and soda. The city is not unique in it's situation—cities across the country face the

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  Guerilla Gardening. Literally.

  Is it the militarization of gardening? Or the gardenization of weapons? Following in the tradition of putting flowers into gun barrels, Tony Minh Nguyen and SnowHome have taken inspiration from the concept of "guerilla gardening" to