January 2011 will mark the opening for the world's first commercial rooftop garden in Montreal. You've no doubt heard about Gotham Green a lot, these folks kept their venture under wraps and were first to the pole.
-Missed this from the summer,Sacramento's Newsreview "encourages" homeowners to remove their lawns.
-The average age of a farmer today is 57 (!), which is why the USDA is awarding grants to train the next generation of farmers and ranchers. Meanwhile, Ag Secretary Vilsack announced 4.8 million for "food policy council training, urban agriculture, new farmers on preservation farmland, promotion of native food sovereignty, youth, urban and rural food production projects and community food assessments."
-Maybe twitter is a good thing? If I were on it, I could tell folks they have 30 minutes to get to the first Columbia Center's Urban Agriculture Harvest Hootenanny!
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