Category — Events

Photo by Cynthia Price. Larger image here.
MetroAg co-coordinators Joe Nasr, James Kuhns and Martin Bailkey, with Marielle Dubbeling of RUAF and Joe’s mother in Philadelphia for the event.

MetroAg promises to bring support and recognition to growing urban agriculture movement

Article by Kristin Reynolds in ‘Urban Grown’ the Newsletter of the Kansas City Centre for Urban Agriculture. Link to all ‘Urban Grown’ issues here.

Excerpt:
In conjunction with the annual Community Food Security Coalition Conference, a newly-formed organization held its first official forum on urban agriculture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 4th, 2008.

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First Forum for the North American Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Alliance

Saturday, October 4th 2008 Noon - 5:30pm
University of Pennsylvania, Houston Hall,
3418 Spruce St., Philadelphia PA

Please join us for the first public forum for the new North American Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Alliance (NAUPAA), founded to support the growing community of sustainable farmers and policy makers working in and around the metropolitan areas of the U.S., Canada, and beyond.

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Planting a Victory Garden on the lawn in front of San Francisco’s City Hall, July 2008. Photo by Scott Chernis

Article in NYT by Allison Arieff
July 28, 2008

“Earlier this month, my family spent a Saturday at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, helping to plant a 10,000-square-foot Victory Garden sponsored by Slow Food Nation, a nonprofit organization that will be celebrating American food through art, music, lectures, tastings, school programs and the like over Labor Day Weekend. More than 250 volunteers and nearly a dozen Bay Area gardening organizations dedicated their time to plant the first edible garden in front of San Francisco’s City Hall since 1943.

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2007 Photo # 2 submission by Paule Hjertaas - Regina, SK

“This is a photo of part of a one day harvest from my home garden and my 2 community garden plots (1800 ft2) to reflect the diversity of crops. I am chemically sensitive and pesticides trigger severe reactions. I must eat organic food. I have also surrounded my home, a pond and a moist area with Saskatchewan native species. Many butterflies are now occurring, including home-raised Monarchs this year! Over the twenty years of my illness, working in my vegetable and native wildflowers garden provided me with a lot of healing. Leaves are composted on site in low-maintenance flower beds. I dig weeds, use corn gluten and fertilize with manure, home-grown compost, alfalfa and seaweed emulsion. Row covers exclude pests from my vegetables, and I hand-pick slugs.”

2008 “David Suzuki Digs My Garden–Photo Contest” details here.

New August 30, 2008
See: Report of Growing Food For London Conference - June 2008

“This event will look at urban agriculture: its impact on the food security of London, its role in preserving the capital’s open space, educating and improving the health of Londoners and potentially reducing the distance that London’s food has travelled.

“Through a series of presentations from British and international experts, including academics, growers, and other experts we hope to explore what opportunities there are for producing more food and how this can be achieved in a sustainable way.

Speakers include:

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“Grow Bag installations promote the use of vacant, neglected and undefined spaces in the inner city of London for the growing of vegetables.

“To see a working inner city allotment initiated by the What-if team in 2007, visit VACANT LOT on Chart Street N1. A formerly inaccessible and run-down plot of housing estate land has been transformed into a beautiful oasis of green. Seventy 1/2 tonne bags of soil have been arranged to form this allotment space. Within their individual plots, local residents are carefully tending a spectacular array of vegetables, salads, fruit and flowers. The VACANT LOT has become a space for growing food, socialising, picnics and BBQs.’

Link to the London Festival of Architecture event.

Link to the What If Vacant Lot site.