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Crop Mob

Who's up for organizing a Tallahassee Crop Mob? USA Today, by Judy KeenThe mob descended on Chris Wimmer's farm on a rainy Saturday bearing pitchforks and shovels. They went to work quickly, relocating a compost pile, digging weeds and hauling fencing.The Jefferson County Crop Mob, a group of mostly urban volunteers, spends one Saturday a month sweating for small-scale farmers such as Wimmer. In...

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Food Movement! Food Movement! Read all about it!

Every time I turn around, I learn about some new piece of the food movement.  It's abuzz like nothing I've ever been apart of before.A few weeks ago, my mother brought home and showed me a box of triscuit crackers.  On the back, there were three pictures.One picture showed a few people in a vegetable garden, and the other two depicted a single person tending container herb gardens in their window...

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Great Things Happening in Jacksonville

A recent article in the Jacksonville Times-Union, Poverty, But Obseity: The Hunger Paradoxdescribes the ways in which the lack of nutrition in "energy dense" foods and the availability of healthy food have contributed to a simultaneous obesity epidemic and increasing food insecurity. It's a great article about kids gardens, food security, nutrition, and the growing food movement. Also, take a look...

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Another Set of Links and Videos

Once you delve into the emerging food movement, it's amazing how much there is to it, how fast it's growing and how much potential it holds.In the past hour, I received an email from my father containing a link to "Garden Girl TV" with Patti Moreno, talked with a man that lives on Wakulla Springs road that has a one acre property on which he hopes to establish "an active edible landscape with...

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Links and Videos Worth Noting

Revive the Victory GardenIn 1943, Americans planted over 20 million Victory Gardens, and the harvest accounted for nearly a third of all the vegetables consumed in the country that year. Emphasis was placed on making gardening a family or community effort -- not a drudgery, but a pastime...History of Food Gardening at the Whitehouse Teens 4 GoodAn innovative entrepreneurship program that revolves...

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