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FluxRostrum | Feb 26, 2011
Will Allen and the Growing Power team presented workshops on farming in urban settings and empowering youth and low income neighborhoods with fresh local produce at Our School at Blair Grocery.
http://OurSchoolAtBlairGrocery.org
http://GrowingPower.org
http://GoFamilyFarms.comAudio and light problems plague much of this … sorry about the technical difficulties.
Growing Power Weekend – Urban Farming for Food Security
see
Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy
Toby Hemenway: How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization
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I think Cuba favors urban farming. I think it’s a great idea and a wonderful experience for those who participate in it.
Thanks, Walter. Cuba HAD to favor urban farming after the fall of the Soviet Union in order to survive. We can learn a lot from what Cuba went through.
See:
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil/
Recent article on Peak Oil:
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/its-well-past-time-to-start-taking-peak-oil-seriously-by-jeremy-r-hammond/