by Katie Elfering
WHAT’S HAPPENING
It’s not just all talk about community gardens at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The government agency is putting its money where its vegetables are by starting up gardens of their own to help feed communities.
As part of the Obama administration’s push to get citizens to grow more of their own food [...]
by Nissa Hanna
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Dense city neighborhoods don’t generally have much space for garden plots, so the Urban Farming Food Chain project constructs vertical gardens for inner-city communities (ArchRecord.com 10.7.08).
The green walls don’t just provide a calming connection to nature, they produce edible fruits and vegetables — fresh and free nourishment in food deserts.
In Summer 2008, the vertical farms bloomed in four [...]
OBSERVATION
by Derek Reveron
WHAT’S HAPPENING
A group of Chinese and Latino teenagers are going door-to-door in San Francisco to educate people about environmental pollution.
Common Roots Youth Organizing Program, a group of teenagers from low-income and immigrant neighborhoods, forms teams of Latinos and Asians to visit homes, businesses and organizations in poor and immigrant communities.
The group, a collaboration [...]
