Mama City Farmer: guiding all of us little chicks
The Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden I visit the CIty Farmer website, an information mecca for urban agriculture, every few days, to drool over awesome urban gardening projects, look at photos,...
View ArticleAs Food Prices Rise…
I could talk for days about the causes and effects of rising food prices in the US. Disadvantaged Americans queue for aid in New York Its becoming a BIG DEAL. In the past year 1.3 million new...
View ArticlePotato Patches: 1890-1910
A group of Polish women en route to a “Pingree potato patch” circa 1890. An economic depression between 1893 and 1897 caused poverty and unemployment, in turn causing a higher demand for community...
View ArticleCity Beautiful Movement, 1890-1910
Cityscape by City Beautiful Reformer Jacob A. Riis, 1890 From 1860-1910 the US population jumped from 31.4 million to 91.9 million. That means that over this span of forty years the population tripled...
View ArticleEven Seattle hospitals are full of sustainable, local food…
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 29th 2008 CONTACT: Holly Freishtat, 360-391-2888, holly@cultivatehealth.com Seattle Hospitals Purchasing Local, Sustainable Food: National Report Outlines Leading Trends in...
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