Turns out there are lots more folks doing food gardening around the country-- and even around the southeast-- than myself. I'll keep adding to this list as I discover more food garden entrepreneurs. For now, this is who I've found:Rashid Nuri with Truly Living Well Farms in AtlantaI met this guy during my stay in Atlanta January, '10. He farms stray pieces of land, say, adjacent to an apartment...
Wind, ice, chance of snow, and I'm headed north. Brrr.This coming week, I'll be making a run to Atlanta in my little-truck-that-could for a community garden educational trip.* While in Atlanta, I plant to a) visit metro-area community gardens, b) attend a "Train the Trainer" workshop co-hosted by the American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) and the Atlanta Community Food Bank(ACFB), and,...
What do Tom Cruise, Angelina, Brittany, and Tiger Woods have to do with Food Gardening? Well...Last week, I read a fascinating article in Newsweek entitled, "Celebrity: the Greatest Show on Earth." The interesting part is the author's argument that "celebrity"-- as a form of art, not the celebrities themselves, per say-- provides the national community with something to rally around, talk about,...
My grandmother this coming spring will turn 92. She grew up picking cotton on other folks' farms in "LA, Lower Al'bama," south Georgia and N. Florida. She continues to "farm" to this day. Her vegetable garden-- heavy on peas, tomatoes, squash, sweet potatoes and peppers during the summer and collards, mustards and turnips during the winter-- is one of the things that keeps her going. Born in 1918,...
If I'm not mistaken, this past summer, the universities' budgets in town were struck by 95 million dollars. Add to this the collapse of the housing boom and reductions in state government spending, and what you get is a Tallahassee economy heading for hard times. In fact, for many, times are already tough. This is our current reality.In the midst of such a financial situation, does it make...