James: False Creek Real Estate

James is a carefully orchestrated collection of 155 designer residences in Vancouver’s vibrant False Creek community.

The rooftop on most residential buildings is reserved for the penthouse owners, but not at James. James at False Creek invites everyone to enjoy over 5,000 sq/ft of tree-lined and gorgeously landscaped outdoor space complete with a secure children’s play area, fully equipped outdoor kitchen and community gardening plots.

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In the school garden of Brooklyn PS29, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, joined by Rachael Ray, explained that “School gardens encourage more young New Yorkers to eat healthier diets and help them understand where their food comes from.”

San Diego 4th Grader: “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are.”

By Daniel Bowman Simon
People’s Garden NYC
The Huffington Post
August 20, 2010

Excerpts:

By 1925, 99 New York City public elementary schools reported school gardens. In 1930, 244 gardens were reported, and that number jumped 24% to 302 in 1931, when the New York Times reported 65 Acres of School Gardens under cultivation.

But over time, most of these acres of gardens vanished, as the general pressures of a growing population and teacher parking lots took priority over the myriad benefits that these gardens offered their respective communities.

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Bee Ayer, left, the farm manager at the Youth Farm, works with volunteers. BK Farmyards is a Brooklyn-based decentralized farm network growing food in under-utilized land around Brooklyn, including schoolyards, backyards and vacant lots.

Communities get gardening bug

By Janet Whitman
Financial Post
August 24, 2010

Excerpt:

New York City is dotted with more than 10,000 acres of unused land and Stacey Murphy would like to see it lush with tomatoes, cucumbers and arugula.

The architect-turned-urban farmer started a business in Brooklyn last summer that’s turning backyards, vacant lots, and school property into organic garden plots.

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Urban Farming in Newark: Lincoln Park Community Farm Launch from Leo Aristimuno | Newark Mosaic.

Video of the opening by Leo Aristimuno

Leo Aristimuno
Newark Mosaic
Assistant Professor of Video Production & Media Studies
Rutgers University in Newark

News by FEMWORKS
July 19th, 2010

NEWARK, N.J., July 19, 2010 – Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD) joined by Joe Atchison of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Jazz trumpeter James Gibbs III of the 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival, FEMWORKS, and Newark’s Harvest Table Restaurant launched the Lincoln Park Community Farm (LPCF) last week. Paying only $20 a week, a long list of residents have become members in the farm’s community supported agriculture (CSA) program. Through the CSA, city residents receive a share of the harvest every week from July through late September 2010. “The Lincoln Park Community Farm is an impressive example of what urban farming can be in New Jersey,” stated Joe Atchison. Membership in the farm is available on a rolling basis.

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