Sentences with phrase «urban farmers»

The author is a commercial urban farmer who grows food for farmers markets, restaurants and for his own consumption.

I see urban farmers standing in front of their vans and panel trucks.

The wall is more of a story - telling tool than a scalable example for future urban farmers.

One urban farmer noted that through these conversations he could «see the light bulbs» of understanding going off for people.

The new Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan creates innovative strategies to guide the County to identify and protect agricultural land with development pressure, support new farms and attract new farmers to Erie County, identify strategies to increase the financial viability of agriculture in the County, connect rural and urban farmers with consumers and new markets, and increase accessibility of healthy, local food for consumers.

I've already posted an awesome video of urban farmers in New Orleans, and another of a dairy farm that let's its cows retire.

So he hatched a plan based on a concept brought to a community sustainability meeting by urban farmer John Rife.

The unique partnership allows Amana Academy students to become urban farmers and produce food for the school and local charities.

The final mix of 13 entrepreneurs ranged from urban farmers to computer repair technicians, running start - ups from kitchens and basements to century - old storefronts, all aiming to grow, to move up, to build a business worth investing in.

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.

organic gardener, writer, professional photographer, homesteader & urban farmer living in New England

Will Allen of Milwaukee, a strapping, 6 - foot -7-inch former professional basketball player, must be the best known urban farmer in the country.

From Seed to Table (FStT) was a major 3 - year programme aimed to encourage urban farmer groups to innovate their local production systems, to engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels in 18 major cities, and to enhance the capacities of NGOs to support them effectively in such activities.

Community Services Unlimited is developing the South Central Growers Network which will support a growing number of urban gardens allow urban farmers to share resources and sell their home grown produce to South L.A.'s First Organic Marketplace.

43 urban farmers eating plant - based diets I am not in a position to assess Gnostic or anagrammatic interpretations of the Bible, but I found Hatfield's analysis of biblical diets to be thought - provoking: Hatfield, 2009, pp. 23 — 29.

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.

But other (intra - and peri --RRB- urban farmers also produce fresh vegetables, herbs, fruits, eggs, milk, meat, fish and other products for the quickly growing urban market.

In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.

Fieldworkers work closely with Drumlin's farmers to raise crops on thirty acres and market our produce through a farmstand, a weekly urban farmers» market, restaurant accounts, and a spring, summer and fall CSA program.

At 3 p.m., community activist Jamaal Bailey, Kings County DA Kenneth Thompson and urban farmer Karen Washington will be honored by Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. during an annual event marking the observance of «Black History Month»; Dreiser Loop Community Center, Co-op City, 177 Dreiser Loop, the Bronx.

As an experienced urban farmer, Stone teaches how to be profitable while minimizing risk and growing high - yield, high - value crops.

Expect local organizations presenting their wares, urban farmers offering cooking demos beneath innovative tented modules, exciting eats, and «outdoor living rooms.»

Updated, 6:17 p.m. As Cleveland tries to find a path to normalcy after hosting the Republican National Convention, as the city's urban farmers prepare to benefit from a convention - boosted bonanza of composted coffee grounds * (there's an up side to everything), it's worth taking a closer look at a few details in how the party handled global warming in its platform and rhetoric.

«We will help urban farmers grow hundreds of pounds of additional food in the fall and winter,» said Steve Frillmann, executive director of Green Guerillas.

Urban farmers ingeniously recycle human and animal waste to nourish plants and to fertilize fish ponds.

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 Farmer.

-- The Center for Urban Farmers website has webinars, videos, and lots of information about urban farming practices, politics and events.

The food forest, as the designer turned urban farmer describes it, was started on a parkway next to his home, and took up the 10 - foot - wide, 150 - foot - long strip once dominated by unruly grass.

The project was implemented by RUAF partners IPES and ETC and studied the roles and functioning of organisations of urban farmers in the Netherlands, Hungary, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and identified effective ways to strengthen such organisations.

From Seed to Table (FStT) is a major 3 - year programme aimed to encourage urban farmer groups to innovate their local production systems, to engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels in 18 major cities, and to enhance the capacities of NGOs to support them effectively in such activities.

The report not only provides guidelines for conducting these analyses, but also argues for their value on both public and private construction projects, from urban farmers» markets to federal highways.

The use of fresh (untreated) wastewater has the additional advantage for poor urban farmers that it contains a lot of nutrients (although often not in the proportions required by their soils and crops).

organic gardener, writer, professional photographer, homesteader & urban farmer living in New England

Having already visited the awesome urban farmers of New Orleans, Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine of the Perennial Plate continued the Louisiana leg of their road trip with a boat ride courtesy of Sinh Pham — a Vietnamese shrimp fisherman struggling to get by with low dock prices, high fuel costs, and a dramatic decrease in catch.