Urban Gardens

Fine Gardening Lessons for All of Us

Rick Fedrizzi | Posted 04.16.2012

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Rick Fedrizzi

Gardens are far more than a backdrop. They truly are symbols of life's resilience, of hope and possibility, of well-being and connection to something larger, and infinitely more important, than our simple selves.

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Video: Gardens That Teach

Kelly Meyer | Posted 05.28.2012

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Kelly Meyer

With a little creativity, vision and willingness to get our hands dirty, we can remake spaces defined by asphalt and dead grass into productive places of beauty.

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Why Can't You Hate Walmart as Much as I Do?: Culture Wars Infiltrate the Food Movement

Christopher Weber | Posted 12.12.2011

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Christopher Weber

The Walmart-Growing Power alliance is not as unlikely as it might seem. Both groups share one priority: selling affordable food, a desperately needed commodity in inner-city neighborhoods amidst the Great Recession.

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Farm Dreams: If You're Not on the Land You Love...

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.28.2011

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Linda Buzzell

Remember that old song: "If you're not with the one you love, love the one you're with"? The words keep running through my mind as I listen to many of our friends who dream of someday owning traditional farms and farmland.

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Post-Katrina Urban Gardens

Daniel Klein | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Treme Brass Band, Urban Gardens, Nola, Food News
Daniel Klein

This video tells the story of several different New Orleans residents who came back to the city after the storm to rebuild and start making food in th...

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Is Your Garden Safe?

AP | By DAVID RUNK | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT -- With remnants of once-legal lead paint, leaded gasoline and other pollutants from the nation's industrial past tainting land in U.S. cities...

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All Hail the Seed Bomb: Healing Nature Deficit Disorder One Gooey Ball at a Time

Celia Alario | Posted 05.25.2011

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Celia Alario

On a recent visit to Los Angeles I was overjoyed at the creativity, ingenuity, business savvy and pure chutzpah of a green service project presented on the streets -- called Seed Bombs.

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What 10 Cities Have The Most Urban Gardens?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Even in cities where it seems like the biggest patch of garden comes in a windowbox, or in cities better known for high rates of murder or snow, commu...

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The Only Thing Toxic About The White House Kitchen Garden Is The Misinformation: Scientists Correct The Record On Contamination

Eddie Gehman Kohan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eddie Gehman Kohan

No one is being poisoned by eating the bounty of wonderful crops that have been grown in the White House Kitchen Garden, period.

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