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Food is Free: Cultivating Food in Front Yards Around the World
Sarah Hebbel-Stone Jan 24, 2013 urban farm 1 comments
  The Food is Free Project launched in Austin, Texas, in January 2012, and within a few short months the project had spread to more than 40 cities across the world. Their mission? To grow fresh healthy food, build community amongst neighbors and line urban streets with front yard gardens. We think they're doing awesome work and want to share with you an Urban Gardens story that we found about the project. Here is an excerpt from the article: "Participants build the free gardens using salvaged resources that would otherwise be tossed in a landfill. The project introduces a very easy method of growing organic food with very little work using low maintenance drought-tolerant,...
Crop Mobbing: A First Attempt At Urban Farming
Emily Morgan Apr 16, 2010 urban farm 3 comments
I was a little nervous about what my Sunday afternoon would be like when I got a message on Facebook that included the instructions, "Eat a big breakfast, this ain't your 9 to 5 desk job! We'll be doing physical labor!"  I was gearing up for my first ever Crop Mob--a volunteer phenomenon that took off in the New York City area after a New York Times magazine article about the initiative ran in late February. The concept, as detailed on the Crop Mob website, is simple: “Crop mob is primarily a group of young, landless and wannabe farmers who come together to build and empower communities by working side by side. Crop mob is also a group of experienced farmers and gardeners willing to...