Urban Farmers Believe They Have Key To Solve Violent Crime
Tyler Durden – His mission is to rebuild communities from the bottom up and allow them to become “self-sustaining” with an abundance of healthy food.
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Revolutionary Family Shows True Meaning of Self-Reliance
Cole Mellino – By growing all of their food themselves, except staples such as wheat, rice and oats, they are able to eat fresh and delicious, organic food for $2 a day per person.
Across the US, Cities Struggle to Figure Out How to Accommodate Urban Farming
Sena Christian – “Widespread interest in urban agriculture is forcing local authorities to re-examine rules that prohibit farming in cities…”
The Changing Face of Revolution – 3 Inspiring People Who are Undermining the Matrix
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times The matrix has us. It surrounds and keeps us busy working diligently within its nifty little paradigms, hard at work at our own enslavement and self-destruction. Behind the scenes of every aspect of life are codes, regulations, rules and agendas we cannot see, but yet are there to keep …
10 Urban Farming Projects Flourishing in Boston
John Deike, EcoWatch Waking Times Urban agriculture and the local food movement are flourishing as farms and gardens continue to pop up across Boston’s inner-city sprawl. To highlight the green movement, Food Tank created a top ten list of the city’s most innovative urban agriculture projects. 1. Berkeley Community Garden, a community of 140 farmers in Boston’s South End, …
10 Urban Farming Projects in New York City
Kaye Spector, EcoWatch Waking Times Who would think that one of the world’s largest cities, New York City, would be a major hub for urban agriculture? Well, it is. Food Tank has compiled a list of 10 urban farming projects providing New Yorkers fresh, local produce. 1. Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, 44 Eagle St., New York, NY A …
How To Grow Your Own Superfoods This Winter
Carolanne Wright, Guest Waking Times No need to bypass all the health perks of fresh superfoods this winter — simply grow them inside on a sunny window ledge. As the weather turns colder, now more than ever it is important to fortify the body with nutrient dense foods. What better way than with unprocessed superfoods? An …
Ordinary Warriors – The Revolution of the Incredible Edible Town
Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times The Spiritual Warrior blends many qualities There are many different qualities to the soul. The spiritual movement has tended to focus on gifts such as acceptance and unconditional love. But there’s also the other side of the coin. There’s the warrior inside each of us that yearns to change …
3 Inspiring Examples of Urban Agriculture
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Until even as recently as the late 70’s and early 80’s, it was still common in many countries to own a lot in a community garden or grow in-season produce in your backyard. Now cities are once again becoming more “green” and urban gardens and farms are providing people with …
Havana: Feeding the City on Urban Agriculture
Havana, Cuba, is a world leader in urban agriculture. After the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, food production was decentralised from large mechanized state farms to urban cultivation systems. Today more than 50 per cent of Havana’s fresh produce is grown within the city limits, using organic compost and simple irrigation systems.
Buffalo, NY Among the First Cities Allow Urban Agriculture
You won’t see cornrows stretching into the horizon or amber waves of grain as far as the eye can see, but there’s a growing phenomenon in urban America – agriculture is “growing” in our big cities, and as a result, lawmakers and policy chiefs are taking notice.
Reclaiming Ag in Oakland
“For ten years people in Albany have tried to turn the Gill Tract into an urban farm and more open space for the community,” explains Jackie Hermes-Fletcher, an Albany resident and public school teacher for 38 years. “The people in the Bay Area deserve to use this treasure of land for an urban farm to help secure the future of our children.”