“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 ‘super-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 »
- farming your balcony
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged super-micro farming, urban, urban farming on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What if you want to be an urban farmer, but you don’t have an allotment or even a postage stamp-sized front or back yard to plant?
Well, you can take inspiration from the members of Food Up Front, an urban food-growing non-profit based in Balham, in south London. Even if all you have is a walkway, [...]
- tax breaks for gardeners! Yeah!
Posted in economics, food, gardening, policy, tagged fiscal policy, food security, gardening, super-micro farming, tax on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
if we want to encourage people to produce their own food, here’s a great idea: tax breaks for gardeners!
It’s the idea of Maine gardener and sustainability advocate Roger Doiron. He says:
There are different breaks that local, state and federal governments could offer home gardeners. Sales taxes on seeds, seedlings, fruit bushes and trees could be [...]
- 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 [...]
- urban farming: neat idea, but what about the wildlife?
Posted in food, gardening, plants and animals, tagged food security, monocultures, native plants, super-micro farming, urban farming on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday we wrote about ’super-micro farming’ as a trend emerging in response to possible threats to our food supplies.
There’s further evidence of the trend in the San Fransisco Chronicle’s most recent ‘Home and Garden’ section. In a multi-page cover feature, the paper does a nice job of surveying current efforts in the city to [...]
