Jackson, Mississippi plants a food forest

The biggest story of the past two weeks details the world's biggest aerogation project to date. When installed in 2017, this 4 square meter living wall system in London will be able to purifying 2 million liters of air every day!

-If you read nothing else, check out this story on CHIRPS (Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation With Station data). By managing food use and distribution better, we could reduce 14% of emission produced by agriculture in 2050. It blends data from weather stations and satellites, from the past three decades, to hopefully give farmers an idea of how the current growing season might look. An early warning system, so to speak.

-Add Jackson, Mississippi to the list of communities with food forests!

-Another fantastic story, this time from Indiana, about how aquaponics is helping employ those with social needs and give back to the community.

-Tucson, Arizona has been named a City of Gastronomy in the Creative Cities Network by UNESCO. It's the first American or Canadian city to get this award and joins a list of 116 cities in 54 countries. Fun fact, Tucson has had urban agriculture, in some form, for over 4,100 years!!!

-Frustrating news for urban agriculturists from Moscow, because the 150 year old Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, will be moved and the 100 hectares of land used constantly for education and experimentation at the agrarian university will now become residential buildings. Some experiments have been ongoing for over a century!

World Cup green roofs - Group H

The last group, Group H, is no slouch. Belgium looks complicated and simple at the same time, Algeria...might as well be invisible? Korea very glitzy and Russia is not showing much!

Belgium

Algeria






Russia

Korea Republic

Aquaponics for profit

Across the world those involved with aquaponics are trying to make it work. We've seen some failures recently and some will succeed, some won't. In Melbourne, Australia a local non-profit is giving it a go, while in New York State a two year old operation needs an influx of cash to keep things going.

-If you're in New York and want to provide some expertise to get their green infrastructure program off the ground,  don't dawdle...there's only 2 weeks left to apply. (See middle row, bottom of page 7).

-I forgot to post this a while ago but it's not too late to join a free course on the Sustainability of Food Systems.

-And lastly for today check out how Russians are proving small scale organic farming can feed a village and more!