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Quick Update from the Road

What a whirlwind.  Whoa.Last Tuesday morning, I left on a road trip with a friend to attend another friend's wedding--in middle-of-nowhere western Wisconsin.  The wedding was this past Saturday.  With that many miles to travel, we chose to extend a bit on both ends to visit friends, family, and make an urban-agriculture tour of it.Starting pre-wedding, last Wednesday, we visited Growing Powerin...

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Table-Top Herb Garden + links & links

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:...

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A Growing Movement

Back home from the American Community Gardening Association annual conference in Atlanta, GA.Below you can see our Tallahassee Delegation (left to right): Qasima P. Boston, Robbie Estevez, Nathan Ballentine, Joyce Brown (to see Joyce's reflections on the trip, here's her blog), Thomas Lynch (below), Mark Tancig (above), and Merlin John Baptiste. After a day and a half of the conference-- where we...

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I love Summer

Two weeks away and I come back to...Well, let's be honest: the first thing I noticed was the 90+ degree oven-breath that greeted me outside the airport.  Whew.  Florida in the summertime.That's not all that greeted me upon my return from North Carolina and Philadelphia, however. This morning I rose to wakefulness by strolling through the garden to nibble and harvest: 10+ pounds of tomatoes, a...

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Of Interest

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...

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