permaculture

["Johnathan Avery Yelenick" <yelenick@riseup.net>]

  Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) introduces the Community Gardens
Act of 2009


Today, Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) introduced the Community Gardens Act
of 2009 with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)  The bill creates
a grant program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to compensate
community groups for up to eighty percent of the costs associated with
starting and maintaining a community garden.

 "Locally, the City of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods maintains
almost two thousand community garden plots on 23 acres of land, which serve
almost four thousand urban gardeners in the area," said Inslee. "With this
legislation, we can help programs like the ones in Seattle and at 21 Acres
in Woodinville, and we can expand opportunities to all American households
to share in the numerous benefits of local gardening."

Maria Through the Teleidoscope

Maria takes us on an "Alice Through the Looking Glass" type journey around
our demonstration garden using her tiny HD digital camera and her equally
tiny teleidoscope.

MediaGlobal - Urban agriculture key to alleviating world hunger

The urban poor have been hit the hardest by the global hunger epidemic,
which has been fueled by the ongoing food, economic, financial, and
environmental crises.

Getting healthy food into cities in sufficient quantities is an extremely
difficult task. For the first time in the history of mankind, over half the
world's population lives in cities.
   All these stories are here.

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"If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your
food comes from the grocery store then you are going to defend to the
death the system that brings those to you because your life depends on
that; if your experience is that your water comes from a river and that
your food comes from a land base then you will defend those to the death
because your life depends on them. So part of the problem is that we have
become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it
has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it and
it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it."
— Derrick Jensen