Caryn Ernst had not seen herself as a chicken crusader when she hatched some eggs for her daughters’ elementary school project. But after D.C. Animal Control swooped in and snatched the six-week-old chicks out of her Capitol Hill back yard, Ernst found a new mission She teamed up with her local city council member and […]
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Liz Falk, founder of the District of Columbia’s most ambitious example of urban agriculture, Common Good City Farm, recently flew off to Milwaukee to spend time with farmer/genius Will Allen and his mind-boggling chain of farm operations in Milwaukee called Growing Power. Last night Liz gave a slideshow talk on the experience that was worth every […]
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The last time I sat in on a planning meeting for our neighborhood’s new community garden I was nearly run out of the room for suggesting it be built along the lines of a CSA farm, rather than simply providing plots to individuals. I reasoned that lots more food could be grown on a small […]
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