I just discovered a pretty fantastic little online resource for issues relating to urban greening, intentional living, all-things-sustainable… In Context (a quarterly journal of humane,…
There is an interesting piece out that makes me think a lot about our food case study in Langa, Cape Town that I just ran…
This past week the New York Times featured a story on buying shares of local farms, highlighting Erewon farm and mentioning Angelic Organics right here…
Hoarding by several nations is a major cause of the current food shortage (and no doubt increased prices), a recent NYT article shows. The article…
This month I’ve been in two exceptional garden-performance settings, both of which have blown me away . Yesterday, at Ginko Community Garden, located a couple…
Summertime is here.My mom served seedless watermelon, orange honeydew melon, and some gorgeous large strawberries for dessert last night. Yummy. The fruit was delicious. It…
Lamb’s Quarters by Eve Bratman I know a secret about you. You’re not such a scourge after all. Scorned by others as a weed It’s…
For my urban politics class, Amy F.’s final speech surprised me. She talked about vertical farming as the wave of the future, and how we…
Last weekend I was back home. In a city that purports, according to our mayor, to become the nation’s “greenest” city. Indeed, Chicago has done…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good map like this one must be worth at least 10,000. Fertilizer prices are up by…