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...]
Eating the City and Town: Todmorden and Beyond
http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2012S/Blank/PamWarhurst_2012S-320k.mp4 A few months ago, some people in Cambridge, MA were inspired by the example of Todmorden in the UK between Leeds and Manchester, a town that decided to grow as much … [Read more...]
Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems
On Monday January 30th, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) held a public meeting at Suffolk University, halfway between the State House and City Hall, to change the Boston zoning laws to allow for agriculture throughout the city, … [Read more...]
How to Heal the World
I think about this as I plant my garden. I remember John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed; Jean Giono's story of Elzéard Bouffier, "The Man Who Planted Trees;" John Todd's vision to restore the devastated mountains of Appalachia. … [Read more...]
Solar Garden Plantings
Here's a short instructional video on how to make a recycled solar cloche: cross-posted to dailykos, greenmassgroup, globalswadeshi.net, and eurotrib.com … [Read more...]