August 30, 2009

Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, there are approximately 700,000 vacant lots in New Orleans. Enter groups like The New Orleans Farm and Food Network who help residents transform neighborhood abandoned or underused green space into urban … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Composting, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Irrigation, Permaculture, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Community Gardens, community supported agriculture, community supported farms, food justice, food security, gardens, land use agreements, Little Sparrow Farm, lower ninth ward, micro farms, municipal composting, neighborhood farms, New Orleans, post-Katrina, soil amendments, soil testing, sustainable gardening, urban farmin, urban farms, urban gardens, urban micro farms, Villere Urban Farm, White House Garden
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July 27, 2009

St. Mary’s Lots to Gardens, a Lewiston, Maine organization that uses sustainable urban agriculture to create access to fresh food, will co-host the 11th Annual Rooted in Community National Summer Conference with other food justice organizations, Cultivating Community in … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Education & Tours, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: community urban gardens, environmental justice, food justice movement, food security, Lewiston, locally grown food, Lots to Gardens, Maine, organic gardening, Portland, Urban Agriculture
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