Sentences with phrase «urban farmer who»

But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really means to be truly resilient — and this one comes from a former teacher turned urban farmer who is making a living from the land on less than half - an - acre of abandoned inner city real estate.We have, of course, covered the urban farming scene in Detroit many times over here on TreeHugger.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

In many cities, local or municipal initiatives exist to collect household waste and organic refuse from vegetable markets and agro-industries in order to produce compost or animal feed, but one can also find urban farmers who use fresh organic waste (which may cause environmental and health problems).

Kudos to these urban farmers who, from the beginning, realized organic produce had a needed place far away from high - end suburban supermarkets.

Not exact matches

I've talked to vertical farmers in urban centers who want to grow indoors with LED lighting.

While I live in an urban area that has access to farmers» markets and grocery stores, that are so many folks who live in food deserts, without transportation or access to fresh food.

Because the classic market for the Defender — farmers, the army, authorities — is limited, Land Rover needs to broaden the hardcore off - roader's appeal to urban guerrillas and the fashion - conscious in - crowd who couldn't care less about departure angles and fording depth.

I signed myself up, then went to hear James Birch an organic farmer who used to help urban homeowners in LA convert their gardens and landscapes into organic food gardens — from Flora Bella Farms in Three Rivers, Calif..

It is the smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia and the urban poor who spend too much of their wages on food — these are the people who will have less to eat in the near future unless we adapt at a much faster pace,» Robert Zougmoré, CCAFS programme leader for West Africa, said in a statement.

People in this area have endured years of seeing Labour hatred of the countryside and the people who live there and the imposition by the urban elite of their will over rural folk (ban on fox hunting, closure of village post offices, closure of bus services, ruination of farmers, school closures, neglected roads etc etc).

In Cagayan de Oro, urban farmers generally eat more vegetables than non-urban farmers of the same wealth class, and also more than consumers from a higher wealth class (who consume more meat)(Potutan et al. 1999).

And, of course, it is these same countries — and the farmers, fisherfolk, urban poor, children and others who make up the vast majority of their populations — that have the least capacity to pay this exorbitant bill.

Here is a guest post from the passionate citisven about the potential for urban farming A good friend of mine who is a backyard beekeeper in Oakland invited me to meet his fellow urban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Faurban farming A good friend of mine who is a backyard beekeeper in Oakland invited me to meet his fellow urban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Faurban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban FaUrban Farmer.