August 2008
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WatchVolunteers, Gavin Newsom, Alice Waters, planting, city hall, and good times - all part of Slow Food Nation’s Community Planting Day.
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Fiscal responsorbility
We have applied to be fiscally sponsored by BAVC, the Bay Area Video Coalition, and with any luck we’ll have temporary 501(3)(c) status as early as next week.
After that, we can set our sights on grants and distribution/ broadcast. Broadcast-wise, we’re looking at KQED’S Truly California, a monthly series of independently-made documentaries that have a California focus. Edible...
Titles are hard
They really are. They have to be short(ish), catchy, and relevant. What do we call this movie? Before we even got to thinking about a proper title, the movie’s first working title was simply Urban Farms. I would say that, in the end, there is still a non-zero chance the movie’s going to end up with that title. Not a big chance - just non-zero.
I started googling “farm...
Black Infant Health, pt. II - the coup
Alas, the Urban Power Team’s involvement in the Berkeley Black Infant Health Program’s vegetable garden is no more. After a few meetings, with an excited City of Berkeley representative present, a series of progressively hostile emails indicated to Carl that the City was taking over.
This means a few things, notably that the group’s first project has been quashed, and also that...
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The rumors are true: we have a mission.
Edible City is a documentary film that will explore the idea of food sovereignty through a comprehensive view of the Bay Area urban farming community. By examining the successes and obstacles faced by local models, from personal backyard gardens to community-supported agriculture to rehabilitative and vocational gardening programs, we will see the diverse motives, goals, and personalities of the...
SOL, all photos →
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Sol food
Yesterday saw EBPI’s urban farms crew pay a visit to SOL in Fruitvale, Oakland. Near the corner of 23rd and International, right by the rumblings of Bart, SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally) is a co-op of 9 people and their awesome backyard garden. An old storefront opens up to a large living room with a rope swing and a ping-pong table, with rooms upstairs and the garden in the back.
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What they were planting... was a community.
On July 12th, Slow Food Nation organized a community planting day in San Francisco, with 100 volunteers and several notable Bay Areans. Though it will soon be moved to other locations, there is currently a food garden in front of City Hall for the first time since 1943.
Back then, it was a Victory Garden; today, it’s part of the ongoing urban farming movement and a chance to give the mayor...
WatchCarl’s Urban Power Team got together to annihilate some concrete in front of his house and plant a food garden there instead. Sledgehammers, folky guitar/banjo music, and good times all figured in this awesome - some might even say ‘groundbreaking’ - event.