Regional Northeast Regional Agriculture and COVID19 Wednesday, April 8 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Online RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJ0tcuihrT8ouZJuXnaDemygSBJUTBFyFQ Maine Farmland Trust and NESAWG will … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – November 7, 2019
Net Zero plant-filled Singapore pavilion for Dubai’s 2020 World … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – September 8, 2019
How urban farms could solve future food problems https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2019/6/21/how-urban-farms-could-solve-future-food-problems Tenth of an acre permaculture … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – May 17, 2019
Singapore Airlines reinventing airplane food with produce from a vertical farm https://www.newsweek.com/singapore-airlines-aerofarm-1376378 Agritech … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – May 23, 2016
Skyfarm - modular vertical grow structure http://www.rsh-p.com/projects/skyfarm/ http://inhabitat.com/wind-powered-vertical-skyfarms-look-to-a-more-sustainable-future-for-farming/ AccorHotels, which includes Sofitel, Novotel and Motel … [Read more...]
MA Food Plan
Massachusetts has released its food plan, only the third in the last 40 years. You can see it at http://www.mafoodplan.org http://www.mapc.org/sites/default/files/MAFoodPlanGoals.pdf Public comment is invited, email wpitcoff@mapc.org … [Read more...]
UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program
We currently have 600 students registered in our UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program. If you are interested in this 15 credit UMass degree, see: https://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/SFF-Certificate AND..... Our … [Read more...]
Urban Agriculture
Here's the text of a presentation I did March 4, 2015 at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Building Energy conference in Boston, MA. This was the first time the conference addressed urban agriculture. Everybody eats and it's … [Read more...]
MyCityGardens: Networking Greater Boston Gardening
MyCityGardens.com is up and running for the season. We're a local yard sharing website that connects gardeners, mentors, and people with access to space, to neighbors who want to roll up their sleeves and dig in. If you have extra space … [Read more...]
Lobster’s Wicked Cheap. So Why Are Lobster Rolls Still So Expensive?
Lobster's going for $3.99 a pound at my local Market Basket, but up the road at Oxford Creamery Route 6 in Mattapoisett, lobster rolls are still $12. Why? James Surowiecki reports in The New Yorker that there are several factors in play, … [Read more...]