Anyway, one thing is certain. The year of the Mouse is now officially over, so time to stop cowering and get on with it. And what a year we have ahead of us! Plenty of furrows needing tending; some appearing on brows, others more productively appearing elsewhere. What? You say you want to plant a garden but don’t have land? Well, truth be told, neither do I. Not yet anyway. Farming requires land, yes? Well, perhaps not necessarily.
Not everybody who worries about food security and is interested in doing something about it has access to plenty of land or money to buy land and necessary equipment. I was in this situation a few years ago and rather frustrated by it. Perhaps this story will give others some ideas, and I should note that touch the soil is a great source of information about the food system and efforts to transform it at all levels.
Interested?
Read the full article here
Ideas anyone? Buhler? Anyone?
Anyway, today’s a bit of a holiday, being the new year and all, tomorrow we’ll get back to where we’ve always been. That would be now.
Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley took a huge empty asphalt patch of their school property and dug it up and turned it into an organic garden. Alice Waters from Chez Panisse helped with the cooking class curriculum too. Here's the website: http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html So even asphalt can be turned into an organic farm with some extra effort.
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