“This year, 39 percent of people with backyards told the Garden Writers Association they planned to grow vegetables,” the Christian Science Monitor tells us.
Recent spikes in gas and food prices this spring are turning many in the USA to home-food production, it seems.
We welcome that, of course. We’ve been excited about the whole ‘eat [...]
Posts Tagged ‘micro-farming’
- more of us are plowing up our lawns
Posted in food, gardening, tagged farming, food, gardening, micro-farming, super-micro farming on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- eat your lawn, plant your street
Posted in food, gardening, political action, tagged gardening, micro-farming, super-micro farming, urban planning on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s more on the trend that we’re calling ’super-micro farming.’
Firstly, Fritz Haeg has now published his “Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn.” You can find an except from it here.
But why stop at your lawn? Ruben Anderson, over at The Tyee, suggests that we plant the parking spaces in front of [...]
- grow your own (ditch the lawn)
Posted in climate change, food, gardening, tagged allotments, climate change, edible estates, food security, micro-farming, security on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Climate change threatens to destabilize our lives, for both ill and (perhaps, even) good.
One mark of that instability will likely be a disruption in the way we produce and distribute food.
Could this be why the UK Independent finds the world suddenly ‘going crazy for allotments‘ — those small plots of land that cities lease their [...]
