Urban Agriculture

Besides the aforementioned Every Lawn a Garden, the Internet Scout at University of Wisconsin has a recent Urban Agriculture report.

The City of Seattle and some UW people are involved in a local effort called the Seattle Food System Enhancement Project. The Mayor referred to the Climate Benefits of Locally Grown Food in a news briefing in May 2007.

Two years ago The Seattle Times published an op-ed piece by Neil Peirce called Time is ripe for urban agriculture.

City Farmer in Vancouver BC is one of the first and oldest web sites devoted to the topic.

If you have any other suggestions, please add them.

First day of class

I am experimenting with this blog as a way to follow up ideas from class, exchange links and ideas.

The e-reserve site for the class is here.

I am going to try using this site as a way to share links and pictures.

For instance, I mentioned Every Lawn a Garden as well as PCC Farmland Trust.

I mentioned Chef's Collaborative Farmer Chef Connection.

An issue which came up only tangentially was local foodsheds, for which the site at 100-Mile Diet is a good starting point.

Feel free to comment or to add your own links.

Michael

I also mentioned the RAFT project of Slow Food called Salmon Nation.

Finally, we are meeting in Parking lot C6 at 11:30 Thursday, which is right on the south edge of the red circle in this map.