VanGoGreen » Urban Agriculture http://vangogreen.com Live.Greener Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:51:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The North Shore's Garden Advocate http://vangogreen.com/2009/10/01/the-north-shores-garden-advocate/ http://vangogreen.com/2009/10/01/the-north-shores-garden-advocate/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:54:33 +0000 bigsnit http://vangogreen.com/?p=2341 Continue reading →]]> Heather Johnstone runs the Edible Garden Project on Vancouver’s North Shore.

Just wrapping up its 4th year, the the project encourages residents to share their bounty with people in need, as well as putting together a variety of urban agriculture and community garden projects.

This week, Heather and team opened the  Queen Mary Community Garden, located in the City of North Vancouver.  Those of you who aren’t from the North Shore may not be aware that there is both City of North Vancouver, and a District of North Vancouver.  Heather’s project involves both municipalities.

Earlier this summer, I spoke to Heather about the project and where things are going with urban agriculture on the North Shore. We met up at the Lower Lonsdale Community Garden…

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Podcast ISBN: 978-1-926758-03-9
photos and podcast © Robert Ouimet & Bigsnit Media 2009

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Author David Tracey has a new, 6-part series of articles about urban agriculture, currently running in the The Tyee.

The series is called Good to Grow: Raising Food in BC’s Cities.

I recently sat down with David to find out more about the series…

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]]> http://vangogreen.com/2009/08/25/good-to-grow-author-interview/feed/ 4 Seattle's Urban Gardeners http://vangogreen.com/2009/07/05/seattles-urban-gardens/ http://vangogreen.com/2009/07/05/seattles-urban-gardens/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:50:28 +0000 bigsnit http://vangogreen.com/?p=1687 Continue reading →]]> Writer James Glave has an excellent first hand report on how residents of Seattle and Ballard in Washington State are getting into vegetable gardens, many with the help of their municipal governments

The City encourages residents to plant in the “parking strip”– the generous swath of city-owned property between a sidewalk and the street–and issues guidelines and advice on how to do it right. The city’s Department of Neighborhoods also oversees the P-Patch program, a network of community gardens.  (from the article, Eat Your Yard)

Loads of pictures and video on his site, JamesGlave.com

]]> http://vangogreen.com/2009/07/05/seattles-urban-gardens/feed/ 0 March 7 | Urban Agriculture – Soil and the City http://vangogreen.com/2009/02/23/march-23-urban-agriculture-%e2%80%93-soil-and-the-city/ http://vangogreen.com/2009/02/23/march-23-urban-agriculture-%e2%80%93-soil-and-the-city/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:20:23 +0000 bigsnit http://vangogreen.com/?p=849 Continue reading →]]> Spring workshop and AGM of the Pacific Regional Society of Soil Science.

Please join in this series of presentations, discussions and short field tours on the topic of urban agriculture and soil. This workshop is open to the public and participation by professionals and non-professionals alike is welcome.

Come and see how soil and food production can exist in an urban setting.

UBC, MacMillan Bldg. $20 including lunch.
8:30 am to 3:30 pm.
More information available at www.prsss.ca or email.

]]> http://vangogreen.com/2009/02/23/march-23-urban-agriculture-%e2%80%93-soil-and-the-city/feed/ 0 Can a city feed itself? http://vangogreen.com/2008/05/15/can-a-city-feed-itself/ http://vangogreen.com/2008/05/15/can-a-city-feed-itself/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 14:25:46 +0000 aron http://vangogreen.com/?p=204 Continue reading →]]> American Farmland Trust has received a grant to research the feasiblity of San Fransisco feeding itself. This is a very progressive thought, and something that may be a need to be a reality for cities across the world as population grows and farm land continues to shrink.

In North America we can too easily take food for granted. Urban Agriculture is growing and it will continue to be an important innovation as peak oil becomes a crisis. I predict that 20 years from now less traveled food will not longer be a trendy alternative, it will be a necessesity.

Like other American cities, San Francisco residents rely on distant sources of food that travel an average of 1,500 miles to get to their tables. But the city is surrounded by unique agricultural lands, with a mild Mediterranean climate capable of producing nearly every kind of food enjoyed in the Bay Area. American Farmland Trust’s San Francisco Foodshed Study is looking into whether San Francisco residents could feed themselves exclusively from sustainable farms located within 100 miles of the Golden Gate Bridge. The project will result in a strategy to maximize the potential for the city to feed itself locally, while protecting the farmland critical to the San Francisco foodshed.

:: For more information see the AFT Project Website.

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