If you're in Philly, check out this map of local and private places where fresh vegetables and fruit grow.I guess to get the private produce, you should make friends with the owners first.
-Detroit's MGMGrand hotel and local organization The Greening of Detroit are planning a $1 million project to build and complete the downtown area's first urban farm by late next year. Let the gold rush begin. Don't groan...how could I resist that pun?
Grown in Detroit, is a documentary that focuses on the urban gardening efforts that have been undertaken by the 300 students at The Ferguson Academy for Young Women, an alternative high school. Inspiring. One last urban ag story this from the New York Times about go getters on the West Coast.
-The number of farmers markets in the US is only .4% of the total food economy, but are up 214% from 2000, 16% in the last year.
-There are a few folks not too enthralled with the vertical gardening idea, in certain climates.
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