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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Urban farming
  • Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:18:12 -0600


Fantastic.

paul, tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/17/2008 at 2:23 PM Liz wrote:

>Here are links to some of the articles my friend
>on Ravelry gave me. I had thought from what she
>initially said that these were mostly spontaneous
>efforts of neighbors to bring gardening into
>their backyards. It turns out that many of them
>are sponsored by local organizations such as
>churches or non-profit groups. No less valuable
>however, and the New Farm article is indeed about
>a woman who decided to grow her own family's
>food, and then expanded her work to bring in many other people.
>
><http://www.growingpower.org/chicago_projects.htm>Chicago Projects
><http://www.newfarm.org/features/1104/urban_farm/>NewFarm
><http://www.growinghomeinc.org/home/>Homegrown
><http://www.growingpower.org/>Growing Power
>Urban Farms: Oasis in the Inner City -
>http://www.consciouschoice.com/2003/cc1610/urbanfarms1610.html
>
>And this excerpt from another Urban Farms page:
>If you happened to find yourself on a deserted
>island, Nance Klehm would be a good person to
>have on hand. She manages to live almost entirely
>from the food her Chicago garden produces,
>foraged edible plants and what she’s able to
>preserve ­ and she does this in a cold-climate
>city where the growing season lasts only four months.
>
>Klehm grew up on a Midwestern farm and moved to
>the big city at 18. But despite her new digs,
>Klehm couldn’t shake her connection to the soil.
>She’s now built an urban farm on what she calls a
>“scattered acre” made up of her yard and roof as
>well as the yards of friends and neighbors ­ a
>social network bound together by food.
>When she runs through the items she stores and
>preserves, she paints a picture of a pantry full
>of mason jars swimming with luscious fruits and
>vegetables from A (apples) to Z (zucchini). She
>cans soups, chutneys and sauces, ferments
>sauerkraut, kimchi, wines and vinegars and makes
>sourdough bread from starter. Faced with a
>windfall of 300 pounds of apples, she presses
>cider. When raw milk is available from early
>summer through late winter, she makes cheeses and
>yogurt. It’s a whirlwind of a list, and she
>admits she often puts in 80-hour weeks, preparing
>food, designing gardens, managing a large
>greenhouse for a homeless shelter and teaching
>her Living Kitchen classes on breadmaking, cheesemaking and medicinals.
>
>Klehm also forages in the wild spaces of Chicago,
>harvesting edible plants where others see only an
>overgrown lot. Dandelions are weeds to some, but
>the makings of a great wine to Klehm. “Foraging
>brings out our gathering instincts, our innate
>curiosity to discover,” she enthuses. On the
>monthly walks she leads, Klehm pulls people into
>areas of the city they’ve never been and teaches
>them to engage physically in our overly virtual world.
>Sharing food knowledge is key for Klehm; she
>believes recipes should be communal and spread by
>word-of-mouth. “Ask your grandmother, your
>father, an older neighbor or a friend what foods
>they preserve and learn from them. Once you have
>a plan to put up something like marinara or peach
>jam, invite friends over and make a day of it.”
>“I don’t use recipes,” Klehm admits. For her,
>good food is not about a set of directions
>written on a piece of paper, but about walking
>into the world and making magic out of what you find there.
>
>






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