École d'agriculture urbaine - du 15 au 19 août 2011
Root Cellars
There are various types of Root Cellars including ones connected and those separate from your home. Some made from earth and others made from old freezers, culverts, cement or simple garbage cans. Whatever your choice they are excellent for year around food storage. Remember safety though and make sure your root cellar is well ventilated if its large enough to walk into. A Plan for All Seasons Why winter was NOT just a cold gruel world for 1830's New Englanders By Mark Ashton From Old Sturbridge Visitor, Winter 1997. A Root Cellar for Your Homestead-The low-tech root cellar, will keep your harvest fresh for two months or longer, depending on what you store, without ozone-depleting refrigeration, or electricity. BBC-Short article on Root Cellars-Dig a hole and voila, a root cellar. Building an outside root cellar-Werner Gysi wrote this nice little article on building and designing a root cellar. Country Life-Mrs. Ehow-How to make a root cellar from your deep freezer or old fridge.
Urban Leaves
'The Urban Food Revolution' Goes High Rise
Solviva Salad? Five-storey vertical farms? A taste of Peter Ladner's new book on growing food in cities. Asked to create a concept for vertical farming in New York City, the architecture firm WorkAC designed this. The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities Peter Ladner New Society Publishers (2011) [Editor's note: The following chapter, "In Praise of Technology," is excerpted with permission from Peter Ladner's The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities. A week after the wettest September on record, farmer Bill Zylmans called into a local radio show from his tractor on his farm in Richmond, B.C. "I'm sitting here on the tractor, looking out over the fields. "It's not just potatoes. "Farmers have been trying. "On this farm alone, our loss is hundreds of thousands of dollars. "Young farmers who started this year, will they be around next year? Being at the mercy of the weather is the fate of farmers throughout history. As the writer P.
Farm City
Le mode alimentaire américain basé sur une très forte consommation de viande de boeuf est une catastrophe écologique pour la planète - voir là et là, et risque de dévenir un enjeu d'aménagement urbain essentiel dans les décennies à venir - voir là. D'autres vont plus loin en imaginant carrément des immeubles associant en plein coeur de villes des élevages verticaux couplés à des abattoirs. C'est notamment le cas d'Amir Yousefi avec son projet "Carnivore Factory". On peut trouver cela terrifiant. On peut aussi imaginer que le visage des fermes évolue dans les années qui viennent pour donner naissance à une nouvelle "farmitecture"- voir les explications sur l'image ci-dessous là. PS : Sur les abattoirs comme modèle aéroportuaire, voir là. PS 2 : Sur le rôle du modèle alimentaire américain pour penser la mobilité du futur, voir là et là.
Shaping Traditional Oral knowledge: about project
"Observing the food and therefore changing the notion of food preservation, we could find the answer to current situations such as the overuse of energy and food wastage. My design is a tool to implement that knowledge in a tangible way and slowly it changes the bigger picture of society. I believe that once people are given a tool that triggers their minds and requires a mental effort to use it, new traditions and new rituals can be introduced into our culture." This project is about traditional oral knowledge which has been accumulated from experience and transmitted by mouth to mouth. Through the research into the current situation of food preservation, I’ve learned that we hand over the responsibility of taking care of food to the technology, the refrigerator. Therefore my design looks at re-introducing and re-evaluating traditional oral knowledge of food, which is closer to nature. jihyun ryou 2009, shaping traditional oral knowledge-save food from the fridge
Inside Urban Green
7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty
Activist Post Think we have a free market? Think again. Think it was free market capitalism that collapsed the financial system? Think again. What America has, and what we've had for a long time, is Cartelism. It's only natural that a hierarchical system would result in exponential attraction of power to the few at the top. Each major industry in America, and globally, is predominantly run by a handful of companies who are aided by the corporate-government revolving door. Here are descriptions of 7 mega-cartels that killed the free market and effectively run America's oligarchy beginning at the top of the pyramid and cascading down: Banking: The Federal Reserve and their consortium of the "Too-Big-to-Fail" mega-banks make up the Wall Street cartel at the apex of all other pyramids. All of these institutions were originally founded by European bankers yet their connections now expand to nearly every central bank and the IMF and World Bank. Military: The business of war is booming.
Terres en Villes
Actualités Journée des techniciens Terres en Villes Mardi 18 mars 2014 à Paris A l'ordre du jour : - Projets des membres et des priorités du réseau pour 2014 - La loi avenir de l'agriculture, la nouvelle programmation européenne, les lois ALUR et MAPAM : quels atouts pour les politiques agricoles périurbaines ? - Economie agricole et alimentaire : résultats de projets CasDar (GAMAI - REALISAB) Télécharger le programme de la journée Présentation du réseau L'urbanisation est un trait majeur du développement économique et social de la France, comme de l'ensemble des autres pays de l'Union Européenne. Cette mutation, souvent brutale, boulverse tout autant l'espace urbain que l'espace rural, devenu périurbain. 15 Juin 2000, naissance de Terres en Villes Le 15 juin 2000, des élus intercommunaux et des responsables agricoles, ayant mis en place des politiques agricoles périurbaines sur leur territoire, créent "Terres en Villes". Voir la carte des agglomérations membres
Neighborhood Cows and Pigs: Real Food Sovereignty
“You don’t actually drink the milk do you?” When acquaintances learn we have dairy cows on our small farm, many ask us that very question with incredulous expressions. We’ve also been asked, too many times to count, if we really eat the eggs from our hens. “Don’t they, like, come out of a chicken’s butt?” a colleague asked my husband. Separation from the source of our sustenance may be unique to our era.. The oldest folks I know tell me about raising goats and chickens on city lots, growing grapes behind apartment buildings to make wine, gardening anywhere they found land. They’re talking about food sovereignty. It was only a few generations ago that advertisers managed to convince consumers that growing, preserving, and preparing meals should be left to experts. But we’re eager to find solutions. We’re reconnecting through our food in bold (and tasty) ways. How about pigs? How about goats? How about cows? Real solutions are nearby.
