Urban farms sprout under community care. The plot of land at the corner of Slocum and Almy Streets in Providence’s West Side has seen better days — the old building’s brown paint is peeling, slats are stripping from its walls and a fading sign reads “Providence Head Start,” a faint trace of the school it once housed.
But the parking lot out front is home to rows upon rows of dirt mounds out of which small shrubs and plants, the remnants of last year’s planting season, are visible. A small stone Buddha rests under a gnarly tree. In the back, massive piles of compost wait for the next season of planting. A quaint, rusty sign labels Nathaniel Wood’s most recent urban farming endeavor, Front Step Farm.
After two years of renting another lot in Providence, one that was previously empty for about 70 years, Wood found himself ousted from the property when his landlord sold it to a neighboring nonprofit without his knowledge, he said. But the city wanted Wood to remain in Providence, he said. Fruitful endeavors Rediscovering roots. Fin de semana de Alborinco, agricultura lógica y social en Tenerife « Posted on 23 enero 2013 by turcon.
Jornada "Economía Social y Solidaria, Finanzas Éticas y Agricultura Campesina Sustentable" (Usurbil) Fecha y Hora: Jue, 24/01/2013 - 09:00 - Vie, 25/01/2013 - 14:00 Lugar de la actividad: Usurbil y Zerain (Gipuzkoa) OBJETIVO GENERAL DE LAS JORNADAS: perfilar estrategias y sinergias/colaboraciones concretas para la construcción de circuitos (y proyectos) económicos autogestionados a distintos niveles (local, municipal, comarcal, nacional, etc.) al servicio de la agricultura campesina sustentable y de un mundo rural vivo; dichas estrategias se perfilarán a la luz de las bases conceptuales de la soberanía alimentaria de los pueblos y los principios políticos de la economía social y solidaria.
A QUIÉNES ESTÁN DIRIGIDAS: las jornadas están abiertas a todas aquellas personas que: Crowdfunding the commons. La agricultura ecológica puede convertirse en una garantía de supervivencia en tiempos de crisis.
Bastan unos metros cuadrados de buena tierra para crear un huerto ecológico y obtener de él una parte importante de las necesidades alimenticias de las familias. Por otro lado, la carencia de recursos está provocando el empobrecimiento de los sectores sociales más vulnerables y desprotegidos, hasta el punto de suponer una auténtica emergencia social la atención a estas familias, que, a falta de patrimonio económico, necesitan de los recursos y el patrimonio comunal para su usufructo. Desde la Asociación Retama (retama.atwebpages.com/), ante la cesión desinteresada de un terreno en Almería por parte de un particular, con quien compartimos una misma idea, queremos convertir esta zona hasta hora sin uso en un huerto social.
Un terreno compartido en el que jubilados y/o parados (de forma prioritaria) puedan disfrutar de su uso. URBAN FARM™ Online - Sustainable City Living. It doesn’t take a farm to have the heart of a farmer.
Now, due to a burgeoning sustainability movement, you don’t have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. The new Urban Farm™ magazine, from the editors of Hobby Farms, will walk you down the path to self sustainability. Urban Farm™ magazine’s mission is to promote the benefits of self sustainability and to provide the tools with which to do it on any size property. Urban Farm™ reaches out to those in the city and suburbs, those who are inspired by the local-food movement and who want to raise chickens and grow food for themselves, supporting local agriculture and living more sustainably.
Urban farms are popping up all over America. Urban Farm™ is informational and inspirational, filled with how-to projects, profiles of urban farmers across America, “green” and innovative products, and of course, recipes for preparing your homegrown vegetables, eggs and other farm bounty. Read more at UrbanFarmOnline.com. Chickens etc. Resultados de la Búsqueda de imágenes de Google de. Resultados de la Búsqueda de imágenes de Google de. Products - Vegetables - Cucumbers - fresh-market.pl. FruitAndVeggieGuru.com. Community Supported Agriculture. Portable Fence Posts. About.com: P. Plastic Poly for Greenhouse Kits, Greenhouse Plastic, Greenhouse. Farm and Ranch Alternative Enterprise and Agritourism Resource E. New York farms & farming, information on NY Farms: heritage,trad.
Chefs Collaborative. Untitled. Garden Composters, Compost tumblers, Compost bins and barrels. Life on a Southern Farm. University - Garden Project aims to educate campus about food ch. Ruthie Schwab, a member of the class of 2009, smells fennel fronds growing in the new organic garden on the south side of the University's Forbes College.
Schwab spearheads the Garden Project, a student initiative overseen by the Office of Sustainability to educate the campus about sustainable food systems and the environment. Top left: An edible nasturtium sprouts from the 55-by-12-foot garden plot. Schwab said she hopes the garden will become a center of activity on campus, with lectures, cooking demonstrations and other events planned for the upcoming academic year. The garden features a variety of salad greens, including this Swiss chard, which is commonly referred to as "bright lights" because of its red stem. Fast Cities: Urban Farms: New York. Microfarming Business. Little City Gardens.