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Riverpark Farm, NYC

Riverpark Farm, NYC

Dutch Firm To Build An Urban Park That Doubles As A Farm The Dutch inch closer and closer to producing food where most people live: in the city. For all the talk about inner-city gardens and farms sprouting off the side of skyscrapers, growing and eating your dinner in the same place is still a pipe dream for most city dwellers. Leave it to the endlessly progressive Dutch to bring large-scale urban food production closer to reality. Click here to read the rest of the article.

Dutch Firm To Build An Urban Park That Doubles As A Farm

The Dutch inch closer and closer to producing food where most people live: in the city.

For all the talk about inner-city gardens and farms sprouting off the side of skyscrapers, growing and eating your dinner in the same place is still a pipe dream for most city dwellers. Leave it to the endlessly progressive Dutch to bring large-scale urban food production closer to reality.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

mylistofthangs: “It’s beautiful! Good food production should be aesthetically and aromatically, sensually romantic”. ~Joel Salatin as quoted in Farmageddon

mylistofthangs:

“It’s beautiful! Good food production should be aesthetically and aromatically, sensually romantic”. ~Joel Salatin as quoted in Farmageddon

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Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).

chrisbeatcancer: Farm Salmon vs. Wild Sockeye And the farm fish even has color added! (The wild is on the right)

chrisbeatcancer:

Farm Salmon vs. Wild Sockeye And the farm fish even has color added!

(The wild is on the right)

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demnow:

Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, who lives about 10 miles from where Exxon Mobil’s pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, sent Democracy Now! these pictures of oil on her property near the water.

Click here to hear an interview with Bonogofsky.

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Foxglove Farm is a 120-acre organic farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. The farm is located on one of the original homesteads on the island, surrounded by hundreds of acres of protected forest  and agricultural fields, bordering Maxwell Lake. The farm produces strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, asparagus, melons, greens, roots, a wide range of annual Mediterranean vegetables, as well as orchards of diverse varieties of peach, plum, apple, pear, quince, persimmon, fig, chestnut, and cherry. We also manage a small flock of laying hens, produce ten acres of grains and legumes, and have over 30 acres of hay and pasture. Our organically grown fruits, vegetables, and eggs are available at the Tuesday and Saturday Salt Spring Island farmers markets, at local stores and select restaurants on Salt Spring Island and in Vancouver and Victoria, and direct from the fields and through on-site meals to workshop participants and those on personal retreat at the farm.  Our new on-farm store on Mt. Maxwell Rd. will be open beginning this spring.  Stay tuned for store hours and offerings.

Foxglove Farm is a 120-acre organic farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. The farm is located on one of the original homesteads on the island, surrounded by hundreds of acres of protected forest  and agricultural fields, bordering Maxwell Lake.

The farm produces strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, asparagus, melons, greens, roots, a wide range of annual Mediterranean vegetables, as well as orchards of diverse varieties of peach, plum, apple, pear, quince, persimmon, fig, chestnut, and cherry. We also manage a small flock of laying hens, produce ten acres of grains and legumes, and have over 30 acres of hay and pasture.

Our organically grown fruits, vegetables, and eggs are available at the Tuesday and Saturday Salt Spring Island farmers markets, at local stores and select restaurants on Salt Spring Island and in Vancouver and Victoria, and direct from the fields and through on-site meals to workshop participants and those on personal retreat at the farm.  Our new on-farm store on Mt. Maxwell Rd. will be open beginning this spring.  Stay tuned for store hours and offerings.

A Farm for the Future - Part 4 of 5


The good thing about owning a bunch of land and a tractor is that the fuzz is not around to mess with your buzz. I know that last sentence sounded like a Tom Waits lyric but it ain’t.

 

Zach Galifianackis’

answer to the question, On your website you claim that you enjoy “tractors and red wine.” Do you mean simultaneously? posed to him in a Vanity Fair article after discussing his 60 acre farm in the mountains of N. Carolina.