[Akroncooperative-news] Our dream is to create the world's largest urban farm right here in Detroit

[Lawrence Parker]

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World Future Council's Policies to Change the World - Urban Agriculture

Urban agriculture, as the literature will often make clear, has an extremely long history. This is understandable, in that transportation was limited in the past, and the hinterland of an urban area may not have been entirely safe from enemies. Agriculture within the walls or close to the city was safer, and its produce took less time and energy to distribute.

 
ABC News - An urban farming project in New York's Harlem grows food on rooftops and walls

See video story.

The Fruitful Wound - Photographs of Harlem's Gardens and Open Space

For a full year, Dennis Santella has been searching out and photographing gardens and green places across Harlem using a special panoramic camera manufactured by Siciliano Camera Works of Brooklyn. His large richly detailed gelatin silver prints draw on the improvised beauty of Harlem's open spaces - from cultivated areas such as community gardens, to empty lots, and neglected border areas where plants struggle to survive.

Film - The Natural History of the Chicken (2000)

"Through interviews and reenactments, The Natural History of the Chicken investigates the role of the chicken in American life and tells several remarkable stories. A Maine farmer says she found a chicken frozen stiff, but was able to resuscitate it. Colorado natives tell a story of the chicken who lost its head- and went on living.

Our dream is to create the world's largest urban farm right here in Detroit

Phase 1 plans utilize more than 70 acres of underutilized vacant lands and abandoned properties on Detroit's lower east side.

World's Largest Urban Farm Planned for the City of Detroit

Preliminary Plans Call For The Development Of Underutilized Land To Produce Fresh, Local, Natural, Safe Fruits, Vegetables And Trees

CTV News - Mayor of Vancouver Opens City Hall Community Garden

Eager gardeners were given the green light to dig into a number of plots in a community garden on city hall land on Saturday.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said the decision to convert part of the park north of city hall into fertile ground would stand as a symbol for Vancouverites to grow their own food.
  
See the complete stories here.

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Michael Levenston
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