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Town councilors in Clitheroe (UK) plan to encourage businesses and individuals to take responsibility for their own food production, starting with planting edibles in city flower beds and coordinating with various businesses and home developments throughout the town to identify other available land for planting food.
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Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley has released a free book called “Chicago’s Green Rooftops, A Guide To Rooftop Gardening” to help residents understand the options and considerations when planning a rooftop garden. The book also provides basic procedures to help get you started. Thanks City of Chicago, this guide is great for anyone interested in rooftop gardens!
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In his new book “Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture”, Darrin Nordahl, writes that public spaces can be used for growing produce within the city. Nordahl, City Designer for The Davenport Design Center, a division of the Community & Economic Development Department of the City of Davenport, Iowa is a proponent of growing food on any available land throughout the city, including medians and parkways. Discussing local city efforts being made in other parts of the country are:
-Teva Dawson, Horticulture Inspector for the city of Des Moines, Iowa
-Ryan Hertz, Principal, Eco Zoic Detroit
-Sam Adams, Mayor, Portland Oregon
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NPR’s Neal Conan discusses the challenges of agribusiness with author Michael Pollan and farmers Blake Hurst, Troy Roush and others. The farmers address some of Pollan’s concepts and the challenges that they face trying to farm more sustainably. While some of the farmers are inspired by Pollan’s ideas, others find them impractical.
Land share programs are popping up all over Los Angeles. Apartment dwellers and others without a patch of their own to garden are seeking land in growing numbers. And as the waiting lists become longer and longer for community garden space, yard sharing programs are becoming increasingly popular pairing those in need with landowners willing to share. We’ll seek out as many of these programs as we can find across the country, but for now, here’s a great article about efforts being made in the L.A. area.
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If you know of other great land share programs please contact us.
