309 E. 8th Street, Los Angeles.

An organic green restaurant that utilizes the roof to grow its own vegatables

By Paul Aryeh
309 E. 8th Street
Los Angeles California 90014

Who we are:
We are the owners of a mid-rise building in the heart of the Fashion District of downtown LA. The area is slowly transforming into a very “Green” conscious location. Our building has about 10,000 sq ft of roof top space perfect for an organic farm, and there will be about 1900 sq ft of retail space on the ground floor available soon for a restaurant. This space is terrific for a restaurant, and has the necessary infrastructure to support a kitchen. Our desire is to find the perfect operator that can grow their own vegetables and use the ground floor to prepare, cook and serve all organic products.

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The conference will be held in Dutch

From Guido van Rijkom:

We have attracted a large number of good speakers to the conference, both from city governments, entrepreneurs, housing agencies, etc. I am also very happy to announce that Wayne Roberts (Toronto Food Policy Council) will be our keynote speaker that day.

The conference will be held in Dutch and it is mainly for a Dutch audience (some from Belgium, maybe some from Germany).

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Imagine strolling the rows of a fruit orchard or lettuce farm while children clamber over haystacks in an agricultural haven just metres from the heart of the bustling Adelaide CBD.

By Alice Monfries
Sunday Mail
January 07, 2012

Excerpt:

Converting our western parklands, skirting West Tce, into a 50ha “city farm” is one of the innovative ideas being raised by urban experts and the community for the future of inner Adelaide as part of the 5000+ project.

Run by the Adelaide City Council and State Government, 5000+ calls on city residents, shoppers and workers to submit ideas to help shape a long-term vision for the greater CBD.

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Urban agriculture in Cuba produced 1,052,000 tons of vegetables in 2011

By PL
Cuba si.cu
08 January 2012

Urban agriculture in Cuba produced 1,052,000 tons of vegetables in 2011, 105 percent of the plan, which represented about two thousand tons more, an official source told the press.

The executive secretary of the National Group in charge of that movement, Campanioni Nelson, said that for this year they intend to reach one million 55 thousand tons, five thousand more than that scheduled in the preceding year.

At this moment, that area has a high productive potential, consisting of 1,275 hectares of organic gardens, 7, 396 hectares of vegetable gardens 241 hectares ofsemi-protected crops, said the manager.

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Subsistence farming is the life blood of communities in Sierra Leone

SPIN-Farming, now established in Matindi Town, Sierra Leone, will extend its roots to Samuel Town, Temini Town, Pueh Town and Torbgeh Town. These are five communities that will experience changes from now on. The people will be educated in small plot commercial farming. They will experience the benefit of their labors. They will learn how to produce fresh and healthy food for their families and communities. The project will help to identify technologies that might be used to sustain the living conditions of people in the rural areas. It will improve their farming skills, information sharing and cooperation at local, national and international levels.

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