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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Executive Director SeedFolks Youth Ministry, Milwaukee www.lutheransonline.com/lo/Kuji "Greta Gladney <http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/GretaGladney>" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tyler Omand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Helen Loughrey MSW<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/HelenLoughreyMSW> "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Executive Consultant Annapolis Community Food Gardens www.annapolisfoodgardens.com "Howard Hinterthuer<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/HowardHinterthuer/HomePage>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Development Director, Growing Power "Martha Davis Kipcak<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/MarthaDavisKipcak> "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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> "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Executive Director Fondy Farmers Market http://www.fondymarket.org/ "Grau, Janet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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