Vacant lot veggies
Eight years ago, ankle-deep in piles of compost and dirt, I wondered who on earth would eat food out of this vacant lot that once housed a car-repair shop in a sketchy Savannah, GA neighborhood. Turns out today, thousands of people would.
Check out this week’s LEO for my interview with Will Allen, who for the moment seems like the national poster boy for urban farming - I mean really urban, like vacant house lots and old industrial sites. And really farming, like enough for people to live, like fish farms in green houses. He doesn’t want you to just fix the food system, he wants you to be the food system. And as far as agricultural poster boys go, he is definitely not the norm.
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Hi J
I read that article on Will and loved it - he’s my new hero. Glad to know now that YOU were responsible for it. I’m going to Milwaukee (my home town) the end of this month and hope to visit the urban farm there. The videos are great on the Growing Power website. My old food coop is involved too. It’ll be fun.
Posted by: Jan | October 13th, 2009 06:30