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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
"The ignorance of mainstream America only makes it easier for the well
informed to rise above the masses and make some serious changes for the
better. "
-- Mike Adams
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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 shes 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 couldnt shake her connection to the soil.
>Shes 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. Its 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 theyve 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 dont 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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[Livingontheland] Buying Into Organic, Natural, Local,
Tradingpost, 08/16/2008
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[Livingontheland] Re: Buying Into Organic, Natural, Local,
Liz, 08/16/2008
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[Livingontheland] Urban farming,
Liz, 08/17/2008
- Re: [Livingontheland] Urban farming, Tradingpost, 08/17/2008
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[Livingontheland] Urban farming,
Liz, 08/17/2008
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[Livingontheland] Re: Buying Into Organic, Natural, Local,
Liz, 08/16/2008
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