Sylvie Laurent-Begin is in charge of 60 Paris Community Gardens. We spoke to her in Vancouver.

Just by chance, we met Sylvie Laurent-Begin and her husband Christophe at “Grow”, a small garden on False Creek. Sylvie is Deputy to the Paris Vice-Mayor in charge of Parks and Gardens. Christophe her husband is president of Potager des Oiseaux in le Marais neighborhood.

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Four videos about urban agriculture in Vancouver by Anja Schuchardt

By Anja Schuchardt
DieBioKuche
Aug 19, 2011

Mehr Gärtner in Großstädten? Der Demonstrationsgarten von “City Farmer” in Vancouver

Pflügen, Pflanzen, Pflücken – was bringt Städter dazu? Michael Levenston über seinen Demonstrationsgarten und die Probleme für Stadtgärtner in Vancouver.

Plowing, growing, picking – what makes townspeople to do this? Michael Levenston tells us about his demonstration garden and the problems which city farmers have in Vancouver.

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A former school lot at Grandy and Warren is part of a large parcel of land being considered for the project.

Suspicious eastsiders compare RecoveryPark to a ‘plantation’

By Christine MacDonald
The Detroit News
Aug 19, 2011

Excerpt:

Detroit — There are no libraries, schools or recreation centers in Lucy Butts’ neighborhood on the near east side. And she says there are three ways out: death, jail or, very rarely, college.

The nonprofit SHAR Foundation wants to provide another path: an elaborate, $220-million farming project that would bring fresh food, thousands of jobs, dozens of small businesses and hope to a neighborhood where that’s been rare for a while.

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