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Queens County Farm Museum: Michael

Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged , , , on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This post is one of a series of essays written for the New Amsterdam Market. Each essay stems from a conversation between the author and a vendor who participated in the New Amsterdam Market of June 29th. The essays seek to address each vendor’s (food-related) enterprise, to highlight the reality behind their commitment to sustainability, and to convey the [...]

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Sowing City Soil: Oakland

Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged on May 18, 2008 |

The following link will download a map, which was the final project for an undergraduate cartography course at UC Berkeley, taught by Darin Jensen (Geography).  Sowing City Soil highlights the urban farming sites in Oakland, California.  While it certainly does not cover all the cultivated soil in the city – for example, there are over 50 [...]

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Vitalizing the Vacant

Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged , , , on May 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Over the last two months, I have conducted a research project focused upon urban farms and city planning, for the course City Planning 252 (“Land Use Controls”), taught by Professor Fred Etzel at UC Berkeley. Below is a brief introduction to this work in progress, and you can download a full PDF file of the [...]

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New Yorkana

Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged , , , , , , , on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It took a crisis in Cuba for urban agriculture to take over.  The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 cut off nearly all agricultural imports to Cuba, including pesticides, fertilizers, farming equipment, and food.  Not only did organic farming increase, by necessity, but Cubans began cultivating a significant percentage of their food in urban [...]

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