Eight months back when this social enterprise of mine was still in its infancy, I used to wonder why-- when I visited the blogs of incredible food gardening nonprofits and social enterprises like that of Growing Power, they posted so infrequently. Why? When so many folks looked to them for stories of the emerging food movement, when their CEO, Will Allen is featured on the cover of Time magazine...
This is a quick post to share a picture of my most recent project in addition to some links to stories, a conference, programs, organizations, resources, a magazine, etc that all relate to the urban ag/food security/community garden food movement.First, a picture of one (of two) table-top herb garden's I completed on Friday for Mary Louise:Next, a series of links:From NYT Magazine: "Field Report:...
Folks for whom I put in food gardens have been kind enough to send me updated pictures and/or invited me back to take pictures of their crops in full swing. They clearly are holding up their end of the bargain. Wow. The first is Carol's garden:Next is a picture of Ted, Andreas, and Sandra's garden:The following photo I took of Mr. Orbien and Ms. Ingram:This pictures shows Faith and Derry's...
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...
Last week, I put together this raised bed for Andreas, Sandra and Ted. It's made of cedar construction treated with linseed-oil. Take a look. Also note the micro-irrigation tubing sticking out in preparation for filling with soil and compost
The bed is 8x4x2.5ft. If you multiply that out you get 32ft x 2.5ft or 80 cubic feet. My truck bed holds a cubic yard, i.e., 27 cubic feet, so you could...