Urban Farming Tidbits: January 21 Sustainable Farming Internships Interested in a sustainable farming internship or apprenticeship? Check out this database of farmers seeking potential interns. Read More Phoenix Fruit Tree Program As the dust settles from the 14th year of fruit trees we have a few leftover. Check what we have left and place a fruit…
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Why We Need to STOP Recycling By Greg Peterson Often I start my lectures with statements like “we need to stop recycling” and “sustainability is done,” both of which are designed to have you stop in your tracks and say WHAT?!? I do this because it is time for us all to wake up to what…
DetailsUrban Farming Tidbits: January 7 Documentary Screening: Unacceptable Levels If you live in the Phoenix area, you will not want to miss the screening of this documentary about the chemical revolution and how it is affecting our bodies. Watch the trailer, read more, and reserve your ticket here. Phoenix Fruit Tree Program As the dust settles from…
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Farm My Yard: Connecting Urban Farmers with Land to Farm By Albert Kaufman Farm My Yard (FMY) is an idea I had a few years ago as a way to push the urban farming revolution along. My thought was that yard signs are great ways that we share information with one another, and that a sign…
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Home(grown) for the Holidays By Tayler Jenkins Want to give creative, inexpensive and meaningful gifts this year? This holiday season, consider giving your friends and family the gift of something you’ve grown yourself. A homegrown gift tended with love comes straight from the heart and trumps a store bought afterthought any day. Here are some…
DetailsHoliday Food Nutrition Worried about all the food you’ll be consuming this holiday season? You may be pleased to discover that many of these foods are actually quite nutritious! Here are some facts about the health benefits of foods we typically eat around this time of year: Cranberries are rich in antioxidants. Some studies have…
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Did You Know…? Over 200 million urban farms exist around the world and they supply food to one-quarter of the world’s urban population. Did you know that there are over 200 million urban and suburban farms worldwide? According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, these 200 million urban farms supply food to 700 million…
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Teaching Our Kids Where Food Comes From Aldo Leopold, American author, scientist and environmentalist, said that not owning a farm creates the “spiritual danger” of “supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery” (A Sand County Almanac). If you have kids, would they be able to tell you where food truly comes from? Which foods are…
DetailsIt Doesn’t Get More Local Than This! Gardening in the desert is one great big grand experiment. The picture to the right is one of those experiments: a terracotta bulb pot planted with potatoes. The experiment is growing potatoes in the winter and in a pot. I’ll keep you posted. I am still getting…
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Did You Know…? Statistics show that farmers’ markets are popping up all over the country, their numbers increasing substantially every year Did you know that the number of farmers’ markets in the US has increased by nearly 80 percent since 1994? That’s more than 4.5 times the number of farmers’ markets today as there were then!…
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