[Akroncooperative-news] Just published - Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

[Lawrence Parker]

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Just published - Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

I had a feeling I might like this memoir when I came upon on its first sentence, a gentle twist on the opening of Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa." Here is Novella Carpenter: "I have a farm on a dead-end street in the ghetto."

But I didn't truly fall in love with "Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer" until I hit Page 38. That's when the bees that Ms. Carpenter has purchased from a mail order company arrive at her post office in Oakland, Calif. A panicked postal employee calls, begging her to pick them up because they're attracting other bees and "freaking everyone out."

Brooklyn Farm in Trouble

They turned a vacant lot into an edible Eden that provides freshly grown food to thousands of needy Brooklynites.

But the Brooklyn Rescue Mission, an emergency food pantry in Bedford-Stuyvesant, could lose half of Bed-Stuy Farm - its 5,000-square-foot facility on a long-neglected lot - if plans go through to build on it.

Bronwyn's Kale Muffins

Bronwyn picks some Russian kale leaves at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden and walks us through the steps to make her unique muffins. She created this recipe last summer while working on an organic farm where there was nothing to eat but kale.

North Vancouver city considers plan for farms on boulevards

UBC lab is 'trying to create something that doesn't exist anywhere else'

From the Victory gardens of the last century's two world wars to the community-garden movement started in the 1970s, urban agriculture has played an important role in the security of the food supply.

Metro Vancouver is no stranger to the urban harvest. According to City Farmer, 44 per cent of Vancouver's population is involved in some form of urban agriculture.
  
Read these stories and more here:

City Farmer News 

Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture   
  
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