Tag Archive for ‘victory gardens’
GARDEN OF EATIN’
Orlando Home & Leisure Magazine, October 2008 A Landscape Good Enough to Eat Save your money, improve your cooking and help save the planet by transforming your lawn into an edible landscape. By Cindy Heroux No, we’re not suggesting you chow down on that boxwood hedge or dine on dracenas, but there’s a growing movement [...]
TALKIN’ ABOUT FREEDOM
“During the war over 20 million Americans planted these gardens, some even called them ‘Freedom Gardens’” Growing Forward … “freedom” is earned and cannot be taken for granted. In fact, there are forces (lets call them market forces) trying to gain control of the food market for their profit. If they can control the supply [...]
FUTURE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE
“If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. That’s not gallons, but barrels.”* From Oily Food, by Steven Hopp. That was Then, This is Now. “In [...]
DIGITAL PROPAGANDA
Psst, hey fellow Freedom Gardeners! Challenge Icons for your Profile Want to know what Freedom Gardens Challenges your friends are taking? Now it’s easy to find out with the new challenge icons: Check them out on an Example Profile and click on the icon of your interest to find others who are participating. To get [...]
