Out to Lunch By Barry Estabrook Note from Greg: Most of you that know me know that I am committed to staying positive in the arena of food, however there comes a time when we need to dig a little deeper and it is not always a great look. I believe that one of the…
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Innovative Fog Fences In Africa and South America, people are implementing a new, simple technology to capture water from fog—and it’s surprisingly effective. People in dry places may have already been collecting water from fog 2,000 years ago by capturing it when it drips from tree leaves, but today an innovative “fog fence” has been…
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Featured Farmer: Greg Rendek Tell us about your farm. What makes it unique? My urban farm consists of several potted outdoor herb gardens, a 7’x11′ outdoor raised-bed vegetable garden, and 3 fruit trees. I also am taking advantage of my southern-facing window in my room by growing tropical fruiting plants indoors. What are you growing? Right…
DetailsChina’s Polluted Land… Our Polluted Food By Greg Peterson I am continually on the lookout for valuable data to share in our Urban Farm Lifestyle Newsletter. In doing this, I watch several areas for information that significantly effects our food system and the general sustainability of our culture. I do my best to avoid the…
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It’s Not Black or White, It’s in the Middle By George Szaszvari Human beings seem to like bandwagon causes to jump on to, and many are definitely worthy, but let’s consider all sides of any given argument, for and against, without getting too carried away and pretending to have all the answers. I’d like to…
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Digging into Aquaponics Pt. 1: The Plants By Sylvia Bernstein IntroAquaponics growing environments can be home to a huge variety of plants. I’ve grown just about everything you can imagine, from the mundane, like herbs, lettuces, and houseplants, to the unusual, like cacti, orchids, and dwarf trees. So, how should you choose your plants?Top Performers…
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Croatia Bound Four years ago when Miguel Jardine and I created our model called the LFE (Local Food Economy Model) we were brainstorming about what a healthy local food system would look like. Since then I have written, postulated, explored and written some more and what I have come up with is a whole lot…
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A Simple Flight Not so Simple I’m here, I’m here. After a bit of a harrowing two days of travel where each one of our flights was significantly late, causing a flurry of rebooking of flights, we are here, arriving just before midnight June 14. Waiting were three of the students that arrived before us…
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Speaking to Kopriva During my visit to Koprivnica I connected and was asked to speak to Udugra Kopriva whose nonprofit runs the local community garden. It was a different lecture for me as about every 3 sentences that I spoke I had to pause and wait for the interpreter to translate to Croatian. This…
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The LFE Model Revealed Just what did I do in Croatia for two weeks? Well, besides eating a lot of great food, seeing some sights and interviewing a lot of people I produced the following model of our local food systems. My hope is that it will serve as a platform to springboard our culture…
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