Urbanity Sanity

Food, Inc. looks fantastic and I’m looking forward to...

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:21:00 -0400

Food, Inc. looks fantastic and I’m looking forward to checking it out!

This film is coming out June 12th in SF, LA and NYC. It really needs to be debuting in DC, a town of politics and influences that are at the crux of our food issues. It’s a quandary that this film isn’t opening in the cities and towns that need it most, like DC and the largest farming states that produce the most industrialized agriculture in America, like CA’s inland countries, Illinois, who grows the most soy, and Iowa, who grows the most corn! Getting this information out to those who need it the most would really be revolutionary. Preaching to the choir is fuel for the mission, but let’s be real rebels and roar across the U.S. upon the deaf ears and blinded visions!

Bracket: ISSUE #1: ON FARMING

Thu, 28 May 2009 07:57:00 -0400

Bracket: ISSUE #1: ON FARMING: The typically architecturally-centric online magazine, Bracket, has...

The Old Town Alexandria farmers market gets started in the...

Mon, 11 May 2009 19:32:57 -0400

The Old Town Alexandria farmers market gets started in the Spring and continues on into the Summer and peaks in the Fall, dwindling in the winter to nothing but random antiques and shipped in produce—terribly disappointing for a region with so much potential and growth. However, this is not about winter’s destitute. No, this is about the abundance that comes from not having anything but shipped in produce and random antiques for months to having lovely corn and onions from Maryland and Northern Virginia within a 10 minute walk from my house. Like Spring’s coming, I do not take the presence of edible life for granted, regardless of their magnitude or depth of their spread. Where this market lacks in size and outreach to less fortunate neighbors, it makes up for in climax. It presents itself with a sudden bang of life, an overnight miracle.

The fruits and veggies and flowers are clambered around by diligent dog walkers and upper class delicatessen shoppers. There’s not a whole lot of diversity to say the least (in produce of connoisseurship), but boy is there expectation, and who doesn’t like a good build up, a brilliantly planned ascendancy only to pinnacle at mediocrity. Though I don’t gripe when I am there chatting up my Maryland farmer over his radishes with fresh coffee in tow, in fact I may even blend completely into the mesh of regulars, but it certainly gets me thinking in hindsight.

Community Plotlines

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:30:00 -0400

Community Plotlines: “The Series: We track the progress of Dino Kraniotis and his fellow...

"The truth about gardening A veggie plot at the White House will no doubt lead more Americans to..."

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:50:25 -0400

“The truth about gardening A veggie plot at the White House will no doubt lead more Americans...

Songs for Teaching: Dirt Made My Lunch

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:58:03 -0400

Songs for Teaching: Dirt Made My Lunch

The Whitehouse Grows a Garden

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:40:00 -0400

The Whitehouse Grows a Garden: The South Lawn at the White House will see the greens and reds, and...

"Urban Gardening Talk Series 2009 Presented by the Historical Society of Washington (HSW),..."

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:57:43 -0400

“Urban Gardening Talk Series 2009 Presented by the Historical Society of Washington...

"Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in..."

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:41:23 -0400

““Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and...

Urban Food Enterprise

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:00 -0400

Urban Food Enterprise: Input Invited on Urban Food Enterprise Center Officials at the U.S....

Farmland owners merging with Farmers: Deal/No Deal?

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:36:00 -0400

Farmland owners merging with Farmers: Deal/No Deal?: The Airlie Foundation, with the mission...

"Hi all - We are constantly being asked for locations of local community garden plots and are..."

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:36:05 -0400

“Hi all - We are constantly being asked for locations of local community garden plots and...

REposting from DC Urban Gardeners

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:08:17 -0500

REposting from DC Urban Gardeners: DC ROOTING FORUM ROUND-UP: http://www.dc- urban-gardener-...

NYC Oasis Maps - Mapping urban gardens in NYC

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:47:00 -0500

NYC Oasis Maps - Mapping urban gardens in NYC: This has got to be one of the most useful, and...

The most eloquent and efficient urban farming blog ever!! I'll just throw in the towel now.

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:30:30 -0500

The most eloquent and efficient urban farming blog ever!! I'll just throw in the towel now.

White House Farmer Elect

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:29:29 -0500

White House Farmer Elect

DC Sharing Backyards for urban gardens

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:49:20 -0500

DC Sharing Backyards for urban gardens

Master Peace Farm is one awesome urban farm+school+community garden

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:57:55 -0500

Master Peace Farm is one awesome urban farm+school+community garden: The University of Maryland...

OXFAM Face the Music

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:38:27 -0500

OXFAM

Face the Music

Growing a 21st Century Agricultural Revolution

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:10:51 -0500

Growing a 21st Century Agricultural Revolution: This is an agricultural conference held in my...