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Tag: urban
Alternative Food Research: What White People Like
In my last post, I wrote about Nathan McClintock‘s research on the potential of alternative food to enhance social justice in economically impoverished neighborhoods. Here, I present a different perspective. [ … ]
Alternative Food Research: Farming the Deserts
Given all of the attention on alternative food right now – from backyard chickens to guerilla gardeners to illegal rooftop beekeeping – I decided to start a series of posts [ … ]
New Portable Farm Makes Most of Urban Gardening
Everyone knows the very tastiest tomatoes are homegrown, lovingly staked and watered at regular intervals until they’re big and red and ripe. Until recently, such simple pleasures were reserved for [ … ]
Urban + Farming = Oxymoron?
According to the Population Reference Bureau, nearly 80 percent of you probably live in an urban area. Some of you may be lucky enough to have a weekly farmers market [ … ]
Urban Agriculturalist: Fruit Tree Harvesting
Urban Agriculturalist is a series on the ways city and suburb dwellers use their land as a food resource. Los Angeles has a dearth of publicly owned fruit trees, but [ … ]