community gardens
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Many Native Americans lack access to healthy food, but there’s a growing movement to change that
Gardening brings health and peace of mind on reservations.
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Important communal garden in Los Angeles faces a rocky future
Landowner says it won't renew Proyecto Jardín's lease.
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8 bright ideas for a cleaner future
Check out the awesome finalists from OpenIDEO's Renewable Energy Challenge.
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Even Hello Kitty is getting into sustainable food
The cartoon cat moves on from homemaking and Ferris wheel-riding to start her own wildly popular organic farm in Hong Kong.
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Edible Bus Stop turns London transit routes into a network of community gardens
Obviously your first thought when you hear “edible bus stop” is “Stay away! It was built by witches!” (No? Just me?) But shockingly, the Edible Bus Stop project is not about luring children to bus stops by building them out of gingerbread. Instead, it’s about providing food to the community by turning bus stops into […]
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San Francisco’s urban ag-spansion
San Francisco -- a city that has long had more aspiring gardeners than land -- now has a plan in place to build new gardens and make signing up for a community plot less of a losing proposition.
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Jon Bon Jovi opens pay-what-you-can ‘soul kitchen’
Does anyone else remember those Ben Stiller Show sketches where Bruce Springsteen would, like, deliver a baby? Jon Bon Jovi is basically that, but for real. He's opening a community kitchen in New Jersey where patrons pay what they can afford -- or, if they can't afford it, they can get gift certificates in exchange for volunteer work in the kitchen, the kitchen garden, or elsewhere in the community. (And don't act like you're too good to work in the kitchen. You know who works in the kitchen? JON BON JOVI works in the kitchen. No fooling, he washes pots and stuff.)
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Green crush: A jug of organic wine, a loaf of local bread, and thou
For one week, I'll be sending out poems to a few of New York City's greatest food heroes -- to the amazing projects, city efforts, local businesses, and community-based organizations devoted to transforming our food system.
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Urban gardens: The harvest is not just food, it's community
Community gardens have an almost magical power to change the urban landscape. Now many in New York City are safe in the hands of those who tend them.