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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A whole new kind of local Urban homesteading in Washington, D.C.	Meredith Niles	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today's slow yet steady movement towards sustainable foods has a decidedly urban feel to it. This morning, sitting at my backyard patio table and drinking my morning coffee, I looked appreciatively out into my backyard and took a satisfying breath. The highway behind my house roared with the morning rush hour traffic, the high rise apartments across the street were bustling with people hurrying off to school and work, and I was sitting in my own piece of urban heave ...
Topics: food, gardening, local food, placemaking, Washington DC (all these topics)

Putting Down Roots Ousted L.A. gardeners continue to farm		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 28 Apr 2008 In June 2006, a land dispute led to the shutdown of the South Central Community Garden in Los Angeles. Weeks of protest and tree-sitting by celebrities and regular folk proved unfruitful, and the 14-acre garden, tended by 350 low-income families in the middle of one of L.A.'s poorest neighborhoods, was bulldozed. Nearly two years later, with legal wrangling over the land's ownership ongoing, the gardeners ...
Topics: agriculture, California, food, gardening, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Who is a farmer? Linguistic insights into agriculture	Sharon Astyk	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
One of the problems people have discussing sustainable agriculture is the question of language. I was trained originally in English literature and hold as an article of faith that language matters -- deeply. That is, I believe that we can only come to an honest vision for the future with a shared language that accurately describes our world. Agriculture is in the news, obviously -- and the future of farming is a big question. But we keep running up against the ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, food, gardening, green space, placemaking (all these topics)

Gardens in the hood Urban agriculture does more than provide healthy food for those who need it	David Roberts	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Phoebe Connelly and Chelsea Ross have a detailed and incredibly heartening story on urban agriculture in In These Times. It focuses on urban ag projects that target inner city "food deserts," where liquor stores outnumber groceries 20-to-1 and the most easily available food is fried. It's not just about food, though: 'We are what most folks would consider organic, but we're not certified,' the Food Project's Burns says. 'That's not as important to us. We' ...
Topics: food, gardening, health, placemaking, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Haiku Times on community gardens (with gorgeous photos)	Roz Cummins	26 Aug 2007	Gristmill
There is a really nice issue of Haiku Times devoted to community gardens. The haikus are variously lovely, funny, and insightful, and the photos are absolutely beautiful.
Topics: food, gardening, placemaking (all these topics)

Why the nation's largest community garden must become a Wal-Mart warehouse	Tom Philpott	07 Mar 2006	Gristmill
The fate of LA's South Central Community Garden, the largest of its kind in the United States, looks fairly straightforward: It sits on private property, and its owner wants to sell it for development. The 300 or so families who garden there, most of whom by all accounts live under the poverty line, will have to find a new source of food. If the owner/developer, one Ralph Horowitz, has decided to erect a massive Wal-Mart warehouse there, well, that's just the way it goe ...
Topics: agriculture, food, gardening, Los Angeles, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

All About Steve Steve Frillmann, community-garden guru, answers readers' questions		17 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Steve Frillmann, executive director of Green Guerillas. I'd love to hear a juicy story of how community gardening is a tool for community development. Would you share one?�� -- Lisa Gelczis, Flagstaff, Ariz. Just this past summer, Green Guerillas cut the lock off the fence of a once-vibrant community garden that had fallen into disrepair. We put up fliers, knocked on doors, and went to community meeti ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, gardening, InterActivist, interview, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Guerillas in the Midst Steve Frillmann, community-garden guru, answers Grist's questions		13 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Steve Frillmann. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am the executive director of Green Guerillas, New York City's oldest community-gardening group. What does your organization do? At Green Guerillas, we help people carry out their visions for what community gardens can be in a dense, vibrant urban area -- urban farms, botanic gardens, performance spaces, community centers, ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, gardening, InterActivist, interview, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Gardeners: Man the green barricades in LA Why greens should join forces with gardeners to face down the bull dozers in LA.	Tom Philpott	17 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Even though I abandoned Brooklyn for the Appalachians, I'm no sentimental pastoralist. I'm a long-term disciple of the great urban theorist (and champion of cities) Jane Jacobs. Human history since the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago has been a history of cities. Cities are the future; as David Owen's superb article 'Green Manhattan' (PDF) shows, they may be our only hope. The trick is to create agricultural systems within and just outside of cities, minimizing the ...
Topics: agriculture, food, gardening, Los Angeles, placemaking (all these topics)

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