<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Lawrence A. Parker</span><img alt=""><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Managing Director</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Akron Cooperative</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">234-525-0543</span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.akroncooperative.com/">http://www.akroncooperative.com/</a></span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 191, 96); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.</span><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div id="rootDiv" align="center">
<table style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center" valign="top">
<table style="width: 600px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600">
<tbody><tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top" width="100%">
<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top" width="100%">
<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top" width="100%">
<table style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK4" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" size="2" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Beyond urban agriculture and farm land preservation</span><br><br>Food and agriculture have finally caught the attention of the planning and other professions - perhaps for the first time in modern history. At least that's what the 2009 summer issue of Plan Canada (Vol 49: No. 2) suggests.<br><br>This is a good thing. It shows that, as a profession, we are in a receptive mode, constantly learning how to balance the tools we have right now with the need to develop new ways to think about problems and their solutions. For example, urban agriculture and the protection of farmland are priority issues; but other opportunities and approaches are beginning to present themselves, and we must be quick to add them to the "food planning toolbox."<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Urban Agricultural Movement in Canada: A Comparative Analysis of Montréal and Vancouver</span><br><br>Urban agriculture is a term used to describe both private and
public agricultural activities that take place in urban and peri-urban areas. While regional examples practice urban agriculture differently, each will help to increase food security. Urban agriculture has the potential to increase a region's food security by providing a local food supply system and successful examples of this situation have been documented in the Canadian cities of Montréal and Vancouver.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cigar Store Promoting World War I Gardens</span><br><br>"To achieve the results, the Food Administration combined an emphasis on patriotism with the lure of advertising created by its own Advertising Section. This section produced a wealth of posters for both outdoor and indoor display. One proclaimed: "Food is Ammunition-Don't waste it." Another featured a woman clothed in stars and stripes reaching out to embrace the message: "Be Patriotic sign your country's pledge to save the food."<br><br><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Indianapolis school will start 3.5 acre urban farm</span><br><br>INDIANAPOLIS - Community, education and healthier food choices are at the center of a new urban garden planned for Indianapolis' northeast side.<br><br>The Devington Green Acres Farm will occupy a 3.5-acre plot just east of Devington Shopping Center and Arlington High School, and will be the city's largest sustainable urban organic farm, organizers said.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Feed Denver and the The Urban Farm at Stapleton</span><br><br>As city dwellers we have abdicated food production to "others" - other people, other places, other states and other countries. We live in trust that food is being produced and that it will show up at our local grocery store in time for our hunger. We live in false security that someone is taking care of our food needs and our city's food shed.<br></font></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top" width="100%">
<table style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK6" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" size="2" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold;">These stories and more here:</span><br><br><a rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102865886199&s=1771&e=0013WYsSgSj8VWMG5MMcdZEXSwSSJBh67Q8k3m42LU_Z4-FZM6Bql2cl-8hKaM4FiKRAfcDg8if4PspKdEQF27UjYwoKJgtQmI8sNYBhBh4ywDL-uUUTFtE7w==">City Farmer News</a><br></font></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" size="2" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span><br>
Michael Levenston<br>
City Farmer - Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
</span></font></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="3" align="left" height="10" valign="top" width="100%">
<br></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody><tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
<div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-bottom: 10px;"><font style="font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="1" color="#000000" face="verdana,arial"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?m=1101101804613&ea=occti%40yahoo.com&a=1102865886199">Forward email</a></font></div>
<table style="font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 600px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody><tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="1" color="#000000" face="verdana,arial">
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?v=001JLLQ8jUAYdRhlEWIsxy2nGKn17Mj3H3h_GGsM0CeSXdWcax9cm2Mqql01wUTWy5zgo4FjgtFHQ8%3D&p=un"><img alt="Safe Unsubscribe" src="http://img.constantcontact.com/letters/images/safe_unsubscribe_logo.gif" border="0"></a>
<div>This email was sent to occti@yahoo.com by <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:cityfarm@interchange.ubc.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:cityfarm@interchange.ubc.ca">cityfarm@interchange.ubc.ca</a>.</div>
<div><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?v=001JLLQ8jUAYdRhlEWIsxy2nGKn17Mj3H3h_GGsM0CeSXdWcax9cm2Mqql01wUTWy5zgo4FjgtFHQ8%3D&p=oo">Update Profile/Email Address</a> | Instant removal with <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?v=001JLLQ8jUAYdRhlEWIsxy2nGKn17Mj3H3h_GGsM0CeSXdWcax9cm2Mqql01wUTWy5zgo4FjgtFHQ8%3D&p=un">SafeUnsubscribe</a>™ | <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp">Privacy Policy</a>.</div>
</font></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="1" color="#000000" face="verdana,arial">
</font><br></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 20px;" id="LETTER.PHYSICALADDRESS" align="left"><font style="font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="1" color="#000000" face="verdana,arial">City Farmer - Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture | 2150 Maple Street | Vancouver | BC | V6J 3T3 | Canada</font></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div><img src="http://rs6.net/on.jsp?t=1102865886199.0.1101101804613.1771&ts=S0430&o=http://ui.constantcontact.com/images1/s.gif" height="1" width="1"></div></div>
</div><br>
</div></div>
<!-- cg30.c4.mail.gq1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Thu Dec 3 16:24:12 PST 2009 -->
</div><br>
</body></html>