I helped my neighbor start a home garden where we planted a variety of vegetables. Right now she is going through a hard financial time after the loss of her husband so affording groceries is getting kind of expensive.
With her new found enthusiasm for vegetarianism, she will be able to form a plethora of affordable meals thanks to direct access to her garden.
If everyone planted home gardens we would be able to ensure sustainability within our communities. Also if we…
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Added by Jennifer Ann Stupak on May 18, 2011 at 6:06pm —
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Gratitude Gardens: Discovering Our Global Heritage
The Gratitude Gardens is a global collaborative…
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Added by Nick Heyming on August 10, 2010 at 12:27am —
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I’ve done quite a bit of research for a couple of newsletter issues I’ve produced regarding food crisis and food security, and I have thought a lot about the
conditions in other countries and the looming shortages of the future globally.
However, living in Vancouver, a beautiful metropolitan port city, often we
forget to look at food security implementation in our own area. But it is so
necessary for the increasing numbers of homeless and…
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Added by Roberta Voyer on May 17, 2010 at 5:41am —
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The sun hangs low above the Pacific. Wisps of clouds begin to take on tinges of orange and red. Silhouettes, lit from behind by the setting sun, dot the horizon for miles in each direction. Each one holds in their hands a different tool, a different toy. Some hold hula hoops, some swords or staves. Some spin nunchaku, some poi, or balls on chains.
All stand in silence, waiting to hear the cue to begin. Then, as the sun touches the water, a song comes from the huge crowd on the beach.…
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Added by Nick Heyming on May 9, 2010 at 6:51am —
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In 3010, maybe they will remember that we started a garden in the Southeast corner (bottom left in this photograph) of the Kissena Corridor Park Gardens. They will have a big celebration to mark the 100th year of gardening there.
Take a look at our videos from the first weeks of this effort:…
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Added by Paul Allison on May 4, 2010 at 1:30am —
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I live in a first world country and have access to an abundance of food. I thought that here, envisaging a potential local food shortage would require a bigger picture (and longer term) context:
- Climate change spreading the range of crop & livestock diseases, compounding ongoing drought, increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events;
- Massive migration influx absorbing food resources - again, these could be climate change refugees;
- Some…
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Added by Angela B on April 23, 2010 at 3:00am —
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Ok everyone, I've got a wiki up and running for the Gratitude Gardens, http://gratitude-gardens.wikispaces.com/. So far I've added my answers to the First and Second Steps, and am finishing editing some interviews with farmers and gardeners for the second section. I'll post the answers here, but please check out the wiki and give…
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Added by Nick Heyming on April 20, 2010 at 11:00pm —
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Provide skills, not just finished technologies
Share knowledge and skills to continue the innovative process both to and from people and communities
I am embarking on a project that will not only change my life but the lives of everyone I work with. My original business plan was a simple concept of installing organic gardens for people in their yards so they could enjoy fresh clean produce that they had a part in. My idea is backed my 5 years work experience in organic farming…
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Added by Theodore Burt on April 16, 2010 at 3:00am —
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I have worked with a community garden near my home. Recently, I have been researching both container gardening and guerrilla gardening. I live near a reasonably large park and am considering making myself a plot there to grow some vegetables with my husband. We have currently been reading about being a survivalist, minimalist camping, and living off the land.
The plan at the moment ...
- read up on what vegetables grow well in my locality
- learn how to make…
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Added by Allison Keats on April 7, 2010 at 8:02pm —
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This idea has been inspired by several other Agents, from Agent McLellan's Hyperlocavore movement to Agent Buentrostro's Community…
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Added by Nick Heyming on March 24, 2010 at 6:00pm —
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Added by Paul Allison on March 23, 2010 at 2:30am —
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I live in University city, MO. The biggest food security problem around here is that all of our food isn't from around here. We're a pretty typical semi-urban neighborhood: too close to the city to be abandoned, to far away to not be a suburb. The houses are old and solid and easy to retrofit: It's a hobby of mine. I personally live within walking distance of a grocer: my neighbors thing not having to drive to get their food is green living.
Any disruption to the distribution of food,…
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Added by Andrew Jensen on March 19, 2010 at 4:14am —
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To improve food security in my neighborhood, I built stone-walls on a sloped hillside near our home. The walls prevent erosion, allowing my family to grow herbs and vegetables in place of grass. Growing our food reduces transportation costs by limiting the number of times we travel to the grocery store. Because …
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Added by James Ream on March 19, 2010 at 2:24am —
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I was an exchange student in Austin, Tx the last semester of my master and my roomie worked for the Sustainable Food Center. After reading several posts about ways to tackle hunger I want to share what that organization does which I believe is a great thing!
Sustainable Food Center (SFC).
http://www.sustainablefoodcenter.org/From seed to table, SFC creates opportunities for individuals to…
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Added by Sayel Cortes on March 12, 2010 at 2:17am —
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Food security in my local area : Newtown, Australia
I am one of the lucky ones: I live in Australia, a country rated second in the world on the
Human Development Index (after Norway), and I live in an inner city suburb of Sydney called Newtown, where most people have a good standard of living and high food security.
However, despite our relative quality of life…
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Added by Luci Temple on March 11, 2010 at 2:30pm —
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Even before the current Recession, the US had a problem with food insecurity. It isn't something you see on the 6 o'clock news, but it is there on the street, in the backwoods, and in the projects. Nutritious food gets more expensive every year, while wages are not matched to these ever increasing prices - this is one of the big challenges that I see.
Here in Pennsylvania, a huge agricultural state, people go hungry every night. According to PA's…
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Added by Jen Shaffer on March 11, 2010 at 2:30am —
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It was heartwarmign to see - after a search for "food security seatthe" , under the Community Food Security Coalition's list, a program that I knew about and have had friends take part in, but didn't connect to the challenge of this week's Evoke.
The program is Seattle's
http://www.cityofseattle.net/neighborhoods/ppatch/
And their fact sheet is here:…
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Added by Betsy Aoki on March 11, 2010 at 1:17am —
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