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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <rmwj@soonernet.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Sustainable Urban Food Systems
  • Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 08:38:06 -0600


The urban farmer site -- http://www.urbanfarmer.com has
a lot of info, Also Urban Agriculture notes
http://www.cityfarmer.org/ . My website "All links"
page -- http://bettertimesinfo.org/alllinks.htm has
numerous urban agriculture links, including several
pages from the city farmer site.

Robert Waldrop, Oklahoma City

-----Original Message-----
From: John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>
>> Does anybody have some good leads for
national/international
>> projects of urban agriculture and sustainable urban
food systems?
>> ...surveying good
>> examples of sustainable urban food systems
>
>If you're interested in offering historical
perspective in your paper
>(or elsewhere), urban food systems were not at all
uncommon until
>industrialization shifted perceived land use values
towards factories
>and warehouses and away from urban gardening. Paris
in Monet's time
>apparently fed most of its population from urban
gardens, orchards,
>etc. Some citations for this sort of info shouldn't
be hard to find
>with a bit of research.
>






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