[Community_garden] Internationalizing the Community Garden/Urban Agriculture Movement

Thu Apr 24 09:11:48 EDT 2008

Dear All,

If you would be interested in brainstorming the development of an
international yahoo group to advance the cause of organic, urban, and
schoolyard farms and gardens, please send an e-mail to
godsil.james at gmail.com.

The organizers of a "national" conference on urban agriculture in Milwaukee
this winter were astonished to find that the power and reach of the internet
transformed "Pollinating Our Future" into an international conference!

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/MilwaukeeInternationalUrbanAgricultureConference/HomePage

Board members and supporters of Will Allen's Growing Power have been witness
to Will's urban farming methods being replicated and experimented with in
Europe, Africa, and pretty soon Asia and Latin America.  Will addressed the
Royal Society in London last year; the BBC carried his interviews across the
planet;  the state department sent news of Will's work to all U.S.
embassies, and then helped finance a visit by four top urban agrarians to
the USA who published "Edible Cities," currently making its way to every
Anglophone country wherever.

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/EdibleCities

Will is already working to replicate Growing Power's recently acclaimed fish
farming model  in Ghana, Tanzania, and beyond.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=741286

London Urban Agrarians Ready to Help Develop International Yahoo Group

One member of the team that wrote "Edible Cities,"  Ben Reynolds, has
explicitly committed to work to draw upon London's wide net of urban
agrarians connections in the Commonwealth and European community to partner
with U.S. urban agriculture supporters to develop an international yahoo
group to advance the cause.

*Ben Reynolds (Network Director)*
http://www.sustainweb.org/page.php?id=71

Ben Reynolds worked on Sustain's London Food Link project for several years,
helping to coordinate a programme of work to develop a sustainable, local
food system for London. In 2008, he was appointed as Sustain's Network
Director. Before joining Sustain, Ben worked for the Thames Estuary
Partnership as a Research Assistant, primarily creating an online library
containing all research relevant to the Thames Estuary including anything
ranging from Agriculture through to Archaeology. Prior to this Ben was
volunteering at Sustain on the Organic Targets Bill and other agricultural
issues whilst studying for an MSc in the Public Understanding of
Environmental Change at UCL.

North American Founding Members

And the USA has a group ready to spend some time brainstorming the
development of an international yahoo group advancing the cause of organic,
urban, and schoolyard farms and gardens.

"Diana Liu <http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/DianaLiu>" <
diana1127 at sbcglobal.net>
Master Gardener Trainee
Common Ground Garden Program
University of California Cooperative Extension, Los Angeles County
http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/Common_Ground_Garden_Program/

"Venice Williams <http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/VeniceWilliams>"
<venicewb at msn.com>
Executive Director
SeedFolks Youth Ministry, Milwaukee
www.lutheransonline.com/lo/Kuji

"Greta Gladney <http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/GretaGladney>" <
ggladney at therenaissanceproject.la>

Tyler Omand <Tyler_Omand at umit.maine.edu>

"Helen Loughrey MSW<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/HelenLoughreyMSW>
"<helenloughrey at comcast.net>
Executive Consultant
Annapolis Community Food Gardens
www.annapolisfoodgardens.com

"Howard Hinterthuer<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/HowardHinterthuer/HomePage>"
<hhinterthuer at hotmail.com>
Development Director, Growing Power

"Martha Davis Kipcak<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/MarthaDavisKipcak>
"<mdk at bricofund.org>
The KITCHEN TABLE PROJECT
Slow Food Wisconsin Southeast
www.slowfoodwise.org

"Young Kim <http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/YoungKim?action=edit>?<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/YoungKim?action=edit>
"<young at fondymarket.org>
Executive Director
Fondy Farmers Market
http://www.fondymarket.org/

"Grau, Janet" <Jgrau at milwaukee.gov>
Neighborhood Planner, Milwaukee Department of City Development
Story Swapping Without Borders and Political Power

Would not the cause in each of our nation's accelerate with support from
beyond our respective national borders!

What say?

Why not!

Godsil

P.S.  Extending Invitations to the Wider World

My daughter Bridie was able to upload about 50 web sites per hour in google
search of "urban agriculture Minneapolis," "urban agriculture "St. Louis,"
etc. We could do the same for other cities of the world.  Once web sites
discovered, e-mail invitations to staff, board, etc. could begin!

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/InternationalUrbanAgriculture#toc14
 Minneapolis

   - www.nextstep.state.mn.us/res_detail.cfm?id=826
   - www.co.water.usgs.gov/nawqa/urbanPortal/tables/FishCycleITable.xls
   - www.cityfarmer.org/subbooksmedia.html - 37k
   - www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/23593
   -
   www.obesityprevention.umn.edu/img/assets/15421/HealthyFoodsUrbanCmty1.pdf
   - www.fao.org/docrep/005/t1680e/T1680E09.html
   - www.tcdailyplanet.net/
   - www.tndtownpaper.com/Volume8/urban_agriculture.htm

Dubuque, Iowa

   - www.preserveamerica.gov/PAcommunity-dubuqueIA.html
   - www.nyc.cce.cornell.edu/downloads/environment/UE%20Bib%200207.pdf

Quad Cities(Iowa)

   - www.thestop.org/agriculture.php
   -
   www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/02/08/features/home_garden/doc47acbab8908cd255081119.txt

St. Louis

   - www.cityfarmer.org/restrictanimals.html
   - www.alternet.org/envirohealth/49000/
   - www.ruaf.org/node/500
   -
   www.mofarmersmarket.blogspot.com/2008/03/kc-center-for-urban-agriculture-is.html
   - www.zinfullydelicious.com/urban_agriculture/index.html
   - www.nyc.cce.cornell.edu/downloads/environment/UE%20Bib%200207.pdf
   - www.attrainternships.ncat.org/internDetail2.asp?id=971

Memphis

   - www.cityfarmer.org/surveyresults.html
   -
   www.smartcitymemphis.blogspot.com/2007/03/unanimous-vote-shapes-new-future-for.html

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

   - www.greenlaws.lsu.edu/WHOWHO.HTM
   - www.ldaf.state.la.us/divisions/forestry/default.asp
   -
   www.connection.ebscohost.com/content/article/1021267588.html;jsessionid=EFC845F8FC5EB6B7CDB14A6BDD07B034.ehctc1
   - www.louisianaurbanforestry.org/winter2000.pdf
   - www.links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-5608(194103)31%3A1%3C55%3ATAAOPB%
   3E2.0.CO%3B2-G

New Orleans

   - www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/urbanag.htm
   -
   www.blog.nola.com/judywalker/2007/08/urban_agriculture_the_fruits_v.html
   - www.ruaf.org/taxonomy/term/64?from=70
   - www.urbanagriculture-news.com/urban-systems.news
   - www.nyc.cce.cornell.edu/downloads/environment/UE%20Bib%200207.pdf

Midwest Cincinnatti

   - www.urbanagriculture-news.com/urban-systems.news
   - www.archinect.com/schoolblog/blog.php?id=C0_357_39
   - www.crdi.ca/pure/ev-31817-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
   - www.lhds.bcu.ac.uk/strategicdevelopment/joe-nasr
   - www.communitygarden.org/connect/links.php
   - www.uc.edu/cdc/projects/cinci_food_congress.html
   - www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1179348306
   - www.links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0095(194704)23%3A2%3C130%3ASOAEAS%
   3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

Indianapolis

   - www.nuvo.net/article.php?title=cultivating_food_security
   - www.urbanagriculture-news.com/environmental-development.news
   - www.idrc.ca/en/ev-103775-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
   - www.cababstractsplus.org/google/abstract.asp?AcNo=20043152566
   -
   www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=CP87UUDH2M6N9JX1R03SGVLBLVR0AV15&a=3&s=J108…<http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=CP87UUDH2M6N9JX1R03SGVLBLVR0AV15&a=3&s=J108%E2%80%A6>
   - www.creativecompositions.net/ISFA/resources.htm

East Coast Boston

   - www.thefoodproject.org/agriculture/index.asp
   - www.thefoodproject.org/agriculture/Internal1.asp?ID=97
   -
   www.blog.thefoodproject.org/2006/urban-agriculture-conference-call-for-abstracts/
   - www.cityfarmer.org/booksales.html
   - www.inthesetimes.com/article/3297/
   - www.davidjhess.org/BostonCG.pdf
   - www.job-search-engine.com/keyword/urban-agriculture

New York City

   - www.justfood.org/jf/
   - www.nycwatershed.org/
   - www.agclassroom.org/kids/stats/newyork.pdf
   - www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_gopnik
   - www.agmkt.state.ny.us/ad/release.asp?ReleaseID=1403

Baltimore

   - www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.beef06nov06,0,4308112.story
   -
   www.superpages.com/yellowpages/C-Industry+&+Agriculture/S-MD/T-Baltimore/
   - www.baltimorecountymd.gov/News/releases/0320natagday.html
   - www.nass.usda.gov/census/census02/profiles/md/cp24005.PDF

Washington,D.C.

   - www.einnews.com/washingtondc/newsfeed-washington-dc-agriculture
   - www.fb.org/
   - www.agriculture.einnews.com/washingtondc/
   - www.uscollegesearch.org/washington-dc-agriculture-colleges.html
   - www.clagettfarm.org/
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