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Monday, July 04, 2011

City Dweller? Need a Garden? Try Urban Garden Share!

City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America

Grace from the Garden: Changing the World One Garden at a Time

Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens (Land and Community Design Case Studies)

Urban Garden Share! Check out how Seattle is matching gardeners with homeowners who want gardens! Click HERE

Community Harvest is a volunteer led organization that 'gleans' fruit trees for the foodbank! Check it out Click HERE!

In San Fran they are producing produce EVERYWHERE! Check out the article in Mother Jones HERE.

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Gardens gardens EVERYWHERE!

Community Gardening (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide)

Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More are ... of Local Agriculture and Community

Friday, January 21, 2011

Organic Seed Dreamin'--Cucumbers!

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener

The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food

I got my Seed Saver's catalog in the mail. Gotta' love Seed Savers! Based in Iowa they have made it their mission to collect heirloom varieties of vegetable seeds. I'm looking at a Japanese climbing cucumber for my apartment garden. Garden UP!

I'm going to try two varieties of cucumbers this year.....Japanese Climber and Russian Pickling--being a gardener in Seattle, I've found that Russian varieties of vegetables tend to do well here (shorter growing season). I'm hoping that between the two of them I'll be set for pickles and sliced cucumber all summer long this year!

Easy Japanese Pickling in Five Minutes to One Day: 101 Full-Color Recipes for Authentic Tsukemono

The Complete Book of Pickling: 250 Recipes from Pickles and Relishes to Chutneys and Salsas

Oh what I would give for a fresh, sun-warmed cucumber from the garden. Seed Saver's has 20 varieties of cukes to choose from! So, now I've figured out what I'm going to get with regards to cukes.......next time? Tomatoes!

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Cities with URBAN FARMS!

Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm

A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping

Bringing back the ol' days. YES we are bringing back agriculture. Right into the middle of the city! I couldn't find a website that listed all of the urban farms in the metropolisis of the USA so I started my own list! If you have farms you would like to add please comment! I'll add them in! Please note these are a little different than community gardens.......urban farms are living, viable, sometimes profit, mostly not-for-profit businesses. Some of them are located in lower income areas and provide training, education, and employment (not to mention fresh, organic produce!).

Here is a list of urban farms that I could find so far: