When artisanal bakers and farmers get together this weekend at the third annual Kneading Conference in Skowhegan, they'll have lots to talk about - and celebrate. For years, Maine bakers have bemoaned the lack of locally-grown wheat that could help them create fresher, better-tasting bread products.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a grant to the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust (LANLT) to expand educational resources and programs related to community gardening and urban farming. This project will continue USDA's efforts to combat malnutrition while supporting local and regional food systems. The simple act of planting a garden can help unite neighborhoods around a common effort and inspire communities to find solutions to challenges facing our country--from hunger to the environment," said USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan.
MINNEAPOLIS - Across southern Minnesota, women fill about half the chairs in workshops on sustainable farming. Outside North Branch, a new "Girls Farm" project just graduated its first batch of would-be teen farmers.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Across southern Minnesota, women fill about half the chairs in workshops on sustainable farming. Outside North Branch, Minn., a new "Girls Farm" project just graduated its first batch of would-be teen farmers.
... attracting outside investors with mega projects, strengthening community-based food and farm busin... particularized solutions to food and farming problems at the local level may divert attention a...
WENATCHEE - , 98, passed away in Wenatchee, WA on April 14, 2011. Vyvien was the daughter of F. Percy Sheppard and Angeline (Massie) Sheppard. She was born July 27, 1912, in Seattle, WA and lived in the Ballard area, until her family move to Wapato, WA, where they planted orchards in Parker Heights. She graduated from Wapato High School in 1930. Her first two years of college were spent at Whitman College in Walla Walla. She excelled at women's basketball and pledged Phi Mu Sorority. In 1936, she graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor's degree in Physical Education. Vyvien married Sylvester E. Flanagan on December 26, 1936, and they enjoyed a honeymoon watching the Huskies play in the Rose Bowl. Their first home was in Nyssa, OR. They took land ...
Community gardens have numerous benefits to Memphis neighborhoods, including reclaiming vacant lots, providing healthy food, fostering self-sufficiency and creating community gathering places that improve and enrich the quality of life. That's why GrowMemphis has teamed with Memphis Housing and Community Development to grant $5,000 in 2012 to new community garden projects. In 2011, GrowMemphis funded two projects: Green Leaf Learning Farm at Knowledge Quest in South Memphis, and the Neighborhood School in Bingham ton. Green Leaf Learning Farm is an educational youth farming and gardening project on two-thirds of an acre. Soon to be USDA Certified Organic, Green Leaf grows vegetables that are shared with community residents and sold at the South Memphis Farmers Market and to local restau...
William L. Bellomy William Leroy Bellomy, 90, of Anderson Island, Wash., died Jan. 14 at home. Mr. Bellomy was born in Troy, Idaho, and fought in World War II. He also lived in Kennewick, Yakima and Moses Lake, when he began farming under the Columbia Basin Project.
As a child, I would scrunch up my nose and complain to my dad about the stench of some farms as we would drive down the winding rural roads of Dubuque County in his pickup truck. His reply was always the same: "It smells like money to me.
Don't put wind project in residential/farming area Who decided they could put this industrial wind project in a residential/agricultural area? We are taxed under a residential rate, but live in an agricultural area.
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