Are you an apartment dweller looking for a place to garden? A gardener looking for more space than you currently have? Art Yoho has generously volunteered his front yard for the site of our new community garden. The space is about one acre on Maize Road, just a bit north of Cooke Road. We’re looking [...]
Here are couple of good resources for starting Community Gardens. These are also useful if you are starting your own personal or market garden.
The Get Green Columbus Community Garden Manual Guide The guide is published by the City of Columbus and has information on getting access to land plots, borrowing tools and other resources to [...]
An interesting concept at community food bank in Arizona that runs community gardens and farmer’s markets in underserved areas. They have a program where home gardeners and local farmers can sign up and drop off produce at the stand to be sold on consignment. No resold produce all must be grown locally by the participant. [...]
This entry by Brian Depew on Tue, 12/16/2008 on Blog for Rural America provides some insight on how Vilsack will fare on issues important to sustainable minded small farmers. It is encouraging. Although his enthusiasm for biotech is one of his major negatives, he does address some of those issues in this interview.
Vilsack Appointed Ag [...]
PBS recently aired an interview with Michael Pollan about American food policy, changes he’d like to see the Obama administration make to localize agriculture, and the wishes of some that Pollan be appointed Secretary of Agriculture. The video is in two parts and also features farmers markets and community gardening in New York City.
Part 1:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11282008/watch.html
Part 2:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11282008/watch2.html
Want to grow your own organic fruit and veg but don’t have the time? Why not find a neighbour who longs to garden but doesn’t have the space?
Tanis Taylor reports on the rise of garden-sharing schemes in the UK.
By Karen G.
Thank you for the opportunity to address an issue that is very near and dear to my heart. That is the need to talk about and make changes in the availability of fresh vegetables. I would like to enlist the help of churches, non-profits and even individual gardeners to grow locally and donate [...]