Sharecropper Art in New York City this Summer

Leah Gauthier is an artist doing a project called Sharecropper in New York city this summer. 

If you're near NYC this summer and want to check it out and/or get your hands dirty please do so.

There's more info below or you can visit www.sharecropperart.org

Sharecropper invites you to participate in this public art project and micro farming installation by artist Leah Gauthier for one growing season in New York City, Summer 2009. Leah will be using organic growing methods to plant rare and endangered heirloom vegetables and herbs, and to cultivate wild edibles on 17 parcels of donated land or growing spaces located in each of the five boroughs. A portion of the harvest will be shared with local soup kitchens, and series of public programming, including urban farming panel discussions, art happenings, and cooking performances around the city are being planned.  This is a personal journey exploring agricultural plant matter and wild edibles as sculptural material, community building through growing and cooking food, re-imagining land use, and re-incorporating agrarian sensibilities and simplicity into modern life. Our Farm View Larger Map

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A Place in My Country: In Search of a Rural Dream

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Sparrow Haven Recommends....

I think we're on the right track for quality here at Farm Blogs from Around the World, because according to Dee at Sparrow Haven in Ontario, Canada, all her favorite farm/homesteading blogs are already listed.

However there is one missing which she recommends and it's:

My Tiny Plot

"This blog follows the gardening chores, successes, and failures of a small postage stamp garden in UK."

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT FARM BLOGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
A big ask I know, but if you can, please help me support my time on 'Farm Blogs from Around the World' by buying, reading and blogging/reviewing my book:

A Place in My Country: In Search of a Rural Dream


It's about urban downshifting to rural England (and a bit more).

I don't take any advertising on this site but your support would help me show my wife that this blog project is more than me just pursuing my obsessive interest in all things farming/gardening/smallholding!

Please support your local independent bookshop, but (yikes!) dare I say it...

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Ian Walthew



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Sparrow Haven (Ontario, Canada; Urban homesteading)

Sparrow Haven was recommended to me by Back to Basic Living.

Dee was kind enough to drop me a line about her blog:

Sparrow Haven is a small suburban lot of approximately 70 x 100'. In that space we try to provide food for ourselves as well as natural habitat for any wild creature who chooses to take up residence, contrary to our neighbours' wishes.

We have three raised beds, hopefully to be four this year, for growing vegetables and herbs, as well as one old apple tree, two old crab apple trees, and three newly planted babyapple trees in addition to the garden.

To expand our growing space we also use various pots and baskets to grow various produce.

Sparrow Haven is a learning/ practice ground for a larger homestead we hope to acquire before we are retired.

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT FARM BLOGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
A big ask I know, but if you can, please help me support my time on 'Farm Blogs from Around the World' by buying, reading and blogging/reviewing my book:

A Place in My Country: In Search of a Rural Dream

It's about urban downshifting to rural England (and a bit more).

I don't take any advertising on this site but your support would help me show my wife that this blog project is more than me just pursuing my obsessive interest in all things farming/gardening/smallholding!

Please support your local independent bookshop, but (yikes!) dare I say it...

A Place in My Country: In Search of a Rural Dream (Amazon.com)
A Place in My Country: In Search of a Rural Dream (Amazon.co.uk)

A Place in the Auvergne
Ian Walthew


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Vertical Farm in New York City

Back in July I made a posting about an IHT article on vertical urban farms.

A reader of Farm Blogs From Around the World left a comment, saying:

"I really want to see further progress on this concept because I think this is could be a solution to our rising food shortage…I am involved in a campaign to build the first functioning tower."

"The Vertical Farm (VF) is a urban indoor highrise farm that can grow food to feed urban populations in a sustainable way. It’s one of the most innovative solutions to the impending food and environmental crisises we’ll see in the next 50 years.
Dr. Dickson Despommier at Columbia University has taken the lead in developing designs & building support for the VF, but we need to build one to show the world it’s a viable solution, so lets do it in New York!

Key VF benefits include:

1. year-round indoor farming produces 4-6 times more food

2. all organic

3. dramatic reduction of fossil fuel use in farming: shipping, tractors, etc.

4. recycles water it uses

5. avoids weather-related crop failures

6. new jobs

Read more

1. www.VerticalFarm.org

2. New York Times article

3. Huffington Post

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Life on Tracy's Farm Recommends

A blog that inspires Tracy at Life on Tracy's Farm is:

A Single Mom's Adventure into Urban Homesteading

"Her sense of family is very strong," Tracy wrote to me. "I admire any single parent who actively teaches their child about the world around them and how to survive in a way other than super market struggling."


Indeed.


A Single Mom's Adventure into Urban Homesteading is now on the blog roll and I'll be contacting her shortly for her own recommendations.






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