August 2008
9 posts
July 2008
18 posts
Food security & the Berkeley Black Infant Health...
Community Food Security Coalition is a California-based collection of organizations and groups that promotes food programs. They define community food security as a condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice.
Though, as we’ve learned,...
City Farmer →
A very cool Vancouver urban farming company - and their website tracks urban farming news and developments all over the world.
Green Faerie Farm, all photos →
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Of goat apprentices and chicken bazookas
There’s a spot in Berkeley near San Pablo and Bancroft which takes its name from both an ecological concept and a identify-redefining gay movement. It has goats, rabbits, chickens, fruits, vegetables, and a beehive. It sells milk to pet owners, and teaches apprentices to care for and milk goats. From the street, it’s impossible to tell there’s anything more than just a house.
In...
A few quotes that tickle the mind
“No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.”
- H. L. Mencken
“There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.”
- Fawn M. Brodie
“Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are...
Let's define our terms here
Urban Farm is a fairly broad term that defines essentially any type of (generally) organic food cultivation in an urban setting. As with most pastimes, hobbies, and movements, it draws people from all walks of life, and elicits a wide range of purpose and expertise.
Poking around the internet reveals some of these differences. Here is a small sampling of missions and stated purposes, collected...
Plant more in '44!
During both World Wars, folks in England, Canada, and The US were encouraged to grow their own food to aid in the war effort. It was both a way of empowering people to rely less and less upon public food supply, as well as of improving morale during troubled times. It’s estimated that as many as 20 million families growing victory gardens accounted for up to 40% of all food production during...
East Bay Pictures International →
East Bay Pictures International is a production company based in Berkeley, California. Comprised of long-time colleagues whose areas of expertise range from film production and theory, to video game journalism, to linguistics, design, and political science, EBPI is dedicated to making media that matters.
Alemany Farm
Today the EBPI Crew made a daylong sojourn to Alemany Farm, in the projects just south of Bernal Hill in San Francisco. There we were guided by 48-year-old Alice Carruthers, the amazing woman who runs the farm as part of the Alemany Resident Management Corporation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving conditions in the community.
Alemany is a 165-unit low-income housing community,...
Alemany Farm, all photos →
Photos of our Alemany Farm shoot.
