Video: GrowingPower.org Demonstrates the Power of Sustainable Gardening

If you've never heard of Will Allen, prepare to be informed and inspired! Will founded GrowingPower.org over 15 years ago to help people learn to grow their own food in urban areas, and was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award in 2008 for his work. Will's methods are sustainable, using aquaponics and other unique and holistic systems to grow fresh, organic foods, and his work serves as an example of how successful sustainable farming and gardening can be on a larger scale.

Here is a bit more info on GrowingPower.org:
Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing Power implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.

The video below gives a great overview of Allen's work and the Growing Power organization. For more information, also see the excellent and inspiring documentary, Fresh.

Will Allen [Urban Farmer] - Growing Power
Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by hel...

Where Your Food Comes From - Video

Although this one doesn't necessarily pertain to your own gardening efforts, I think it is important to be aware of just where your other food comes from, and the impact of non-sustainable farming on the environment and our planet.

A just-released EWG study called "Losing Ground" shows that our nation's broken farm policy is harming the productive soils that are the foundation of healthy and sustainable food production.

"Losing Ground," based on innovative new research by scientists at Iowa State University -- and featured in "The New York Times" -- shows what industrial-scale crop production is doing to the land we depend on for our food. As part of this eye-opening report, EWG filmed Iowa farmland losing soil after recent rainstorms and created a short video (with Atlas Films) that highlights how federal farm subsidies and ethanol mandates are threatening healthy and sustainable food production.

If you are concerned about the food that you and your family eat and the water you drink, this is a video that you cannot miss.

foodconsumer.org - New video: Where your food comes from
New video: Where your food comes from. 04/14/2011 00:12:00 admin.
Dear Readers,. When you think of America's farmland, you probably picture waving fields of wheat and lush green stands of corn. ... EWG filmed Iowa farmland losing soil after recent rainstorms and created a short video (with Atlas Films) that highlights how federal farm subsidies and ethanol mandates are threatening healthy and sustainable food production. ...
Publish Date: 04/13/2011 20:12
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Environment/agriculture/new_video_where_your_food_comes_from_0413110714.html

Give Thanks for Community Supported Agriculture

If you don’t have locally grown food as a part of your Thanksgiving feast today, you are missing out!

Image via WikipediaCommunity Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a great way for those with limited garden space to still eat locally, and support your local community and environment. Many small farmers grow more sustainably, and the food can be more healthful as well.

Here are some great articles on Community Supported Agriculture – learn more, and perhaps you can help support your community (and your family’s holiday table) through a CSA for a holiday feast sometime soon! (And be sure to check our Cooking From Scratch blog for some good CSA recipes – what to do with all those unusual veggies you aren’t normally exposed to?? All the more fun to experiment with, my dear!)

Have a wonderful, fun, warm, and filling Thanksgiving!

Small Space Gardening: Urban Agriculture and our CSA

My other sphere of activity is Urban Agriculture and our very small, experimental CSA. Three of us started doing Urban Agriculture (growing food in other people’s back yards) mid 2008 with the intention of learning how to grow our own …
Publish Date: 11/22/2010 19:06

http://smallspacegardening.blogspot.com/2010/11/urban-agriculture-and-our-csa.html

Interesting article on farming and the development of CSA in …

Interesting article on farming and the development of CSA in Taiwan Elizabeth Henderson: A CSA Mission to Taiwan : Chelsea Green www.chelseagreen.com. Farmer and author Elizabeth Henderson, whose book is Sharing The Harvest: A Citizen’s …
Publish Date: 11/22/2010 14:13

http://everythinginstantly.net/communityfarming/2010/11/22/interesting-article-on-farming-and-the-development-of-csa-in-taiwan/

Instead of a CSA, How About Agriculture-Supported Community …

Jason Mark is a columnist for Change.org’s Sustainable Food cause. He is a co-author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots and the editor of Earth Island Journa… Read more of this post, Instead of a CSA, …
Publish Date: 11/21/2010 11:12

http://food.change.org/blog/view/instead_of_a_csa_how_about_agriculture-supported_community

Vegan Burnout: CSA Week 22: Fennelicious.

These last few CSA recaps are gonna be kind of weird, kids, because we did some random things with our produce. (Minds. Out of the gutter. Now!) So, here we go: Our first fennel! What an odd vegetable. It took me a little Internetting …
Publish Date: 11/22/2010 19:33

http://veganburnout.blogspot.com/2010/11/csa-week-22-fennelicious.html