Bountiful Backyards is an edible landscaping cooperative

Excerpt from Kickstarters

Bountiful Backyards is an edible landscaping cooperative based in Durham, North Carolina. In the last 5 years we’ve planted more than 1,500 fruit trees and berry bushes, thousands of useful plants, and dozens of organic vegetable gardens. We work throughout the Triangle with people at their homes, schools, community centers, and parks. Our mission is to help people to grow more of their own food where they live, work, and play.

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In this Nov. 15, 2011 photo, Zach Pickens, of Brooklyn, N.Y., manager of Riverpark Farm, tends to his crops, in New York. Instead of allowing stalled projects to become eyesores, some developers are coming up with creative ways to use them temporarily until construction can begin. In New York City, where open space is a precious commodity, just about anything goes. Photo by Richard Drew.

“The bottom line is that even as the economy improves, we’re still going to be stuck with some stalled development that doesn’t actually work with the community.”

By Meghan Barr
Associated Press
December 04, 2011

Excerpt:

NEW YORK — A remnant of the Great Recession is hiding behind a paint-splattered wall in Chinatown, in an empty lot where a building was supposed to rise into the sky.

The plywood barely conceals the mess behind it: a pile of cement blocks and tangled metal and empty bottles of beer. It is, in short, exactly the sort of place that draws the ire of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

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Urban Ag Study Highlights National Best Practices

Report by Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law
Authors:
By Mindy Goldstein Acting Director, Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Jennifer Bellis, Sarah Morse, Amelia Myers, and Elizabeth Ura
Student Attorneys, Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Nov. 2011

Excerpt from EcoWatch article Dec 12, 2011

This report represents one of the most comprehensive, objective presentations of current urban agriculture policies being implemented across the country. Some cities have reacted in a nimble manner, creating conditions that have allowed urban food production to thrive. Other cities are struggling to identify the best mechanisms to spur urban agriculture. What is evident is that there is no one-size fits all policy to address urban agriculture. Each community needs its own nuanced approach to balance the land it has available with the needs of its residents.

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