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Sunday, July 13, 2008
  BBC Irony - Detroit Style
BBC Thursday:
Could growing fresh vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger?

Reginald Moore and Rod Shepard hoe the ground
Putting in the spade-work at one of the charity's gardens

That is the ambitious aim of a charity called Urban Farming, which has its headquarters in Detroit, the capital of the US's wilting car industry.

The idea is very simple: turn wasteland into free vegetable gardens and feed the poor people who live nearby.
BBC Sunday:
Demand for land to grow food, fuel crops and wood is set to outstrip supply, leading to the probable destruction of forests, a report warns.
Sigh. My old hometown does, indeed, look like a barren wasteland in most many neighborhoods. The decline of Detroit is one of saddest stories in America.

I hope that my in my son's lifetime the city will return to the glory it had in my parent's days. For my generation it has been all but lost.
 
Comments:
There's an urban garden in Pittsfield now, I just heard -- called the WestSide Farm Project. No website yet, not that I can find.
 
Urban gardens are a wonderful thing. The were a couple of acres owned by the city of Tacoma by my old house that were used as a community garden. There were probably 30 or 40 residents who each got a small plot.

Washington State University's extension master gardener's program managed the project. On any given Saturday morning there were always a dozen folks crawling around on their hands and knees.

I was always amazed at the stuff that came out of this strip of land next to a major artery.
 
It's that market economy thing working.....nobody can afford the prices at the market! He,he,he
 
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