Feeling a little Solastalgic?

Global mourning? “A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being influenced strongly by ecosystem transformation related to climate change and industry-related displacement from the land. These powerful stressors are occurring more frequently around the world." Now there is a word for it, Solastalgia.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007906.html

Victory Garden on Design21

Victory Gardens and Amy Franceschini on Design21!
http://www.design21sdn.com/feature/765

Farming the City

Local Permie, UAS Founder and GFE Permaculture teacher Kevin Bayuk in the SF Chronicle, Farming the City.

Regional Food Policies

Regional Food Planning Policy in the SF Chron.

Policy Guides for Cities about Regional Food Planning.

LBAM!

LBAM is in the news lately. The Light Brown Apple Moth has been discovered in Santa Cruz county and various other counties surrounding the Bay Area. LBAM, as it is called, could be a tremendously bad pest for a very large number our favorite food crops. The California Dept. of Food and Agriculture LBAM Project wants to spray to exterminate the pest. A number of anti-spray groups, like Stop the Spray, have organized to protect citizens from exposure to the spray (as CDFA will be spraying over cities as well as farms). The issue is complicated to say the least. Pablito, the Farmer at Terra Firma Organic Farm, has weighed in on the issue and, I think, offers some insight in a recent Terra Firma CSA newsletter.

Art about Growing Food is getting big!

A new article in the NY Times by Allison Arieff on the art of Growing Food, including Victory Gardens, called "Cows Grazing in the Rumpus Room".

SUPER WEEDS

Super weeds. The beginning of a big, big problem!
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/14/14957/6362

Global Perspectives on Urban Agriculture

Go deep into Urban Agriculture

Cities of the future, from a global perspective on Urbam Agriculture
http://www.idrc.ca/cfp/ev-95368-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Growing Cities Growing Food
City Case Studies
http://www.ruaf.org/node/76

Theme Papers on Urban Agriculture
http://www.ruaf.org/node/75

World Hunger, Solar Power, Car Free Cities

What the Secretary General of the United Nations says about world hunger. Also, a call to not forget about the SF Solar Power Subsidy. And if you're in Portland, check out the Car Free Cities Conference. Car Free Blog.

Oxalis! grrr.....!

Local garden hero, Pam Peirce, has written the most precise solution to the ever pesky, terrible weed Oxalis that I have read yet. Read Pam's column in the SF Chronicle. (scroll down to the question)

Ribes Sanguineum is a show-stopper!

Our lovely Pink Flowering Currant is just amazing.

Your Food, in the news

More food in the news. A nice article on " How to be a foodie without breaking the bank"
by Novella Carpenter. And how about growing your own wheat? Wheat made it to th BBC's website.