If ants were in charge, there would be no giant oil spill off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

They been farming for 50 million years, what can we learn from these ingenious creatures teach us about agriculture?

The short phrase of the week has to be agrarian urbanism. Daniel Nairn at Grist takes Andrés Duany idea of "embedding hamlets within a rural landscape", and flips it so that you put " pockets of agriculture within the urban landscape." Interesting read, as is the design.

Helping inner city Winnipeg youth through urban agriculture, FortWhyte Farmsgets teens to help with raising bees, bison and more and got an extra $30,000 from the city to do even more! The youth, between 14 and 18 years old, take part in farm operations such as raising chickens, pigs and bison, as well as beekeeping and gardening.