Courtesy Reverend DeVanie Jackson Chef Noah Sheetz with Reverends Robert and DeVanie Jackson organized the fig jam in Brooklyn. A tree grows in Brooklyn — a fig tree, that is, and in Bedford Stuyvesant, no less. In 2004, when the Rev. Robert Jackson and the Rev. DeVanie Jackson had finally trudged through the red tape […]
Courtesy The Park People The city of Denver’s Denver Digs Trees program distributes trees to neighborhoods twice a year—once in the fall and once in the spring. If a tree falls in Denver chances are very good someone will plant one back in its place. That’s due, in large part, to Denver Digs Trees, a […]
Students from the University of Kentucky built a solar house for the 2009 Solar Decathlon with sustainability and liveability in mind.
Courtesy Stock.XCHNG American farmers’ market shoppers casted their votes for their farmers’ market. Last month, farmers’ market goers across the nation entered their picks for their favorite farmers’ markets as part of a contest by American Farmland Trust. “Over 50,000 people from across the country voted for their favorite farmers’ markets this summer,” says Jane […]
Fall means the figs are ready to pick and preparations for the huge olive harvest here are just starting.
Photo by Stephanie Staton Worm exchange programs help people who vermicompost obtain red wiggler worms for free. Worms are taking center stage in the fight against food waste. Worm composting, also known as vermicomposting, is becoming more popular in urban settings where gardeners lack the space for traditional compost heaps. Housed in small bins, red […]
Courtesy RUAF In the Urban Agriculture course on policy-making at Ryerson University, students will review a case study about urban agriculture in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The United Nations Development Program estimates there are 800 million residents worldwide who participate in urban agriculture. In developing countries, urban farming is an important survival technique that provides families […]
September means it’s time to change all the beds by ripping out whatever’s left of all the spring crops, preparing the soil and replanting with the winter crops.
Because we eat them all winter, I buy apples only after the peaches and plums are done, but the first ones are still a celebration of that newly crisp air. So is easy applesauce, a great thing to make with kids.
