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[Jocelyn Campbell <jocecampbell@gmail.com>]

Nice news! Congressman Inslee mentions 21 Acres in Woodinville, which is
more than just organic community gardens. It's also a place for market
gardeners to lease land (in the suburbs of Seattle!), they're developing
permaculture demonstration orchards and just broke ground for a "beyond
green" building that will have the largest solar array in Washington State
and composting toilets, too! See
http://www.21acres.org/building-beyond-green-breaking-ground, or
http://www.21acres.org/agriculturalcenter for this project that is near and
dear to me.

Cheers to local food and community gardens!

Jocelyn
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Johnathan Avery Yelenick <
yelenick@riseup.net> wrote:

>  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.
>
> City Farmer
> News<
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> >
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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
>
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