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The Trouble with Urban Farming

September 18th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Ethicurian gives a qualified thumbs-up to New York magazine’s recent take on urban farming. I’m sorry to see that my cohorts at the Garden Rant blog are far less generous. In fact, you could call their response downright nasty. For some reason, the idea of growing food in the city stirs all kinds of emotions […]

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Garlic Harvest

July 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

In the course of weeding one of our garden beds, I forced myself to consider the small garlic patch that had been overrun with crab grass. “It’s all brown and dried out looking,” I told my wife. “What do I do now?” “Sounds like it’s ready to harvest. When did you plant it?” Last fall […]

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Lawns into Vegetable Gardens

July 12th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

Food & Wine magazine this month awards an “Eco-Epicurean” award to architect Fritz Haeg, who has been bringing an artist’s eye to transforming front yards into vegetable gardens. In 2005, the Salina Art Center in Salina, Kansas, asked Lang to contribute to its show on food and society. Lang’s response was to turn the front […]

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