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agriculture

Gluttonous Rabbits Feast on Flash Farm Project’s Lettuce

October 17, 2009

I was thrilled with my new lit­tle 4’x4’ gar­den, eagerly antic­i­pat­ing the matu­rity and growth of the lit­tle veg­gies– and was struck in the mid­dle of the night by a feel­ing. Call it mother’s intu­ition, but when I went out to check on them at 11pm tonight I was shock-horror at the sight of multiple […]

Tagged as: agriculture, Farming, soil

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Sitopia: A New Way of Seeing Food and Culture

October 16, 2009

A look at the his­tory of food and the city– this provoca­tive TED.COM video by Car­olyn Steel shows how food shapes our lives, and that “we can use food as a really pow­er­ful tool to shape the world bet­ter.” I got goose-bumps at the end.

Tagged as: activism, agriculture, food, slowfood

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Food is Life Itself

September 22, 2009

When you kill your own food, it gives you a new per­spec­tive. Philo­soph­i­cally, it taught me that food is life itself. A few months ago, I went to New Zealand to learn about local food sys­tems and farm­ing, and ended up in a lovely place called Karibu Creek in the North­land, where I met some […]

Tagged as: agriculture, Farming, food, slowfood

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Mobile Farming as Entertainment

September 15, 2009

“Don’t you think it’s time to plant a truck farm?” — This video is a great mashup of media, music, and agri­cul­ture. It’s flex­ing food in the absence of land own­er­ship, and extremely entertaining.

Tagged as: agriculture, Farming, homegrowninitiative, media

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