[Community_garden] Sunny Day with My Worms

Dear All, I was like an anxious parent adopting a child leading up to the moment I squirreled up the courage to ask Will Allen for some Growing Power red wriggler worms around January 2007. I had been witnessing the Will Allen and Growing Power miracle for a couple of years, had heard and seen

[Community_garden] Will Allen's “Growing Your Community Food System” Workshop 4/19

Dear All, Sorry for this late announcement. I'm new to this wonderful discussion group. Growing Your Community Food System: From the Ground Up Workshop April 19 20 *There are still openings available for those wishing to participate in this successful program* (Scholarships are also

[Community_garden] Milwaukee's Will Allen's “Growing Your Community Food System” Wor kshop 4/19

Milwaukee's Growing Power City Farm Will Be the Site of This Workshop Here's the official Growing Power site, which has more information. Growing Your Community Food System: From the Ground Up Workshop April 19 20 *There are still openings available for those wishing to participate in this

[Community_garden] London Report on Visit to Urban Agriculture Projects in USA

Dear All, This brought to you by http://milwaukeerenaissance.com, happy to send you link to full document if you ask. The photography is glorious. The authors aspire to contribute toward an international yahoo group conversation on themes raised in this report. What say? Authors

[Community_garden] Milwaukee Seeks Advice re 220 City Lots Transformed to Community Gardens

Dear All, The Milwaukee Urban Agriculture Network(MUAN) has inspired the Mayor of Milwaukee and his team to begin a conversation aiming to transform 220 vacant lots too small for habitats into community gardens. Might anyone have some templates or concepts to share to help us best take advantage

[Community_garden] London Vacant Lots Pics: Greens Grown in Giant Bags!

http://www.what-if.info/VACANT_LOT.html *PROGRAMME 2008 * *01.05. - 21.06.2008 VACANT LOT will be part of the Love London Festivalhttp://lovelondon.london21.org/page/64 * Love London is London's greenest annual festival, celebrating projects and organisations that are making a real contribution

[Community_garden] 10, 000 Yellow Perch Introduced to Growing Power Urban Greenhouse Aquaponic System

A partnership of Great Lakes WATER Institute, Urban Aquaculture Center, and Growing Power toward a major new Great Lakes industry…*fish farming. *GROWING POWER 5500 W. Silver Spring Drive Milwaukee, WI 53216 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Howard Hinterthuer Growing Power (414) 527–1546 or (262)

[Community_garden] 10, 000 Yellow Perch Introduced to Growing Power Urban Greenhouse Aquaponic System

A partnership of Great Lakes WATER Institute, Urban Aquaculture Center, and Growing Power toward a major new Great Lakes industry…fish farming. * *GROWING POWER 5500 W. Silver Spring Drive Milwaukee, WI 53216 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Howard Hinterthuer Growing Power (414) 527–1546 or (262)

[Community_garden] Internationalizing the Community Garden/Urban Agriculture Movement

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

[Community_garden] Red Wriggler Population Growth Proper Soil Ingrediants

Dear All, I think I have been told that red wriggler worms Reproduce themselves by 4 every four months. If that is correct, then... Twenty Red Wrigglers Become 80 Red Wigglers Become 320 Red Wrigglers Become 1280 Red Wrigglers Become 5120 Red Wrigglers Become 20,480 Red Wrigglers Become 81,920

[Community_garden] Why Are Presidential Candidates Silent re Industrial Food System's Devolutionary Implications?

Perhaps 100 e-mails to Bill Moyers around this theme might make a difference. Moyers probably understands what the local organic food movements is all about. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dear All, Does anyone have any thoughts that would help explain to a simple roofer And apprentice city micro-farmer

[Community_garden] Sweet Red Cherry Tomatoes From Your Harambee CSA Garden

Sweet Red Cherry Tomatoes From Your Harambee CSA Garden Have you ever wished to venture forth beyond Your primal ancestral circles And see what's up in the village Across the river from your own? Have you ever longed for sweet red cherry tomatoes So fresh and juicy the old world Protestant or

[Community_garden] Why Has Not NYT's Friedman Discovered the Grow Local Movements?

Dear All, Is not local, organic intensive farming and gardening a new, renewal, energy technology likely more cost effective across a range of values than solar and wind power? Why has Friedman never mentioned our movements? He hopes to awaken the nation to summon up the energy to do big things

[Community_garden] MBA's Discover Agriburbia

The Agriburbia™ Concept http://www.agriburbia.com/ Agriburbia™ is an innovative and growing design movement that integrates aspects of agrarianism with land development. Agriburbia™ includes characteristics of New Urbanism, modernism and historic preservation, and other environmentally

[Community_garden] Victory Gardens—a Manifesto Garage Roof Garden Proposal

Victory Gardens—a Manifesto Near the beginning of the 21st century we humans find ourselves is a struggle against tremendous destructive forces of our own making. We are struggling for our health, for our community, for our habitat, for our very survival.

[Community_garden] Milwaukee Carpenter's Victory Gardens Manifesto(revised)

Victory Gardens—a Manifesto Victory Gardens—a Manifesto Near the beginning of the 21st century we humans find ourselves is an urgent struggle against tremendous destructive forces of our own making. We will, in the coming years, need to fight for our health, for our community, for our habitat,

[Community_garden] Perhaps Oregon's Urban Agrarians Will Awaken Democrats to Real Food Movement

The New York Times is discovering urban farming, as Tracie McMillan's article below suggests. I wonder if someone from our movement in Oregon will ask Obama or Hillary the question that gets urban farming and edible playgrounds onto the presidential party platforms! Urban Farmers' Crops Go From

[Community_garden] Community Solidarity, Gardening/Edible Schoolyards, Large Sized Frontal Cortex

http://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinishwordpress.com/ LIVING FOR CHANGE Hyenas: Sociable, and Smart By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 4-10, 2008 I can't get out of my mind an article on the social intelligence of hyenas by Carl Zimmer that I read two months ago in the Science Times

[Community_garden] Community Growers Marries Urban Artisans w. Urban Agriculture Movement

Dear All, The arrival in Milwaukee of the Community Growers network of artisans, artists, urban agrarians, and sustainability theorists/activists suggests serious consideration be given to projects that aim to connect the urban agriculture movement with the restoration artisans and their

[Community_garden] Which Will Be First State to Offer Tax Breaks for Victory Gardens?

Roger Dorian inspired this concept and prose. Americans love a competition. Which state will mobilize the locavores Most effectively? http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/HomePage We provide fiscal incentives to people to encourage them to put hybrid cars in their garages and solar panels on

[Community_garden] Today Show's Willard Scott Calls for Victory Gardens, May 29, 2008

*Dear All, *I'm not sure Willard noted that we'd all have a better shot at a 100th birthday party with fresh healthy food from our backyard, front yard, deck, and rooftop four season kitchen gardens... he called... drawing upon America's proud moment in the 1940s... Victory Gardens! But I

[Community_garden] Food Movement Activist Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs: Another Food System Is Possible

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GraceLeeBoggs/HomePage In the early 1980s when Detroit was a devastated bombed-out city, Grace and her husband Jimmy Boggs advanced the concept of self and community self-sufficiency through organic city farms and gardens, and inspired a vision of Detroit's

[Community_garden] Battery Powered Pumps for Urban Ag Irrigation Systems

Dear All, Grigori Lishanski, Ph.D., is a physicist/inventor with some new patents on battery powered pumps. I introduced him to my garage roof food garden to find out what it would cost for one of his pumps and an irrigation system that would enable me to program things so a certain amount of

[Community_garden] Sacred Soil from Sacred Grounds

Dear All, I have recently been blessed with a gift to urban farmer/gardeners By the Quaker House in Riverwest, Milwaukee, of wood chips That have been cooking on their grounds for about 3 years! The bottom of their very large pile of wood chips, Dropped off to them gratis by the Milwaukee

[Community_garden] Interview w. Wisconsin Organic Farmer Blasted by Hail, Ferocious Rain, and...

*Godsil.* I was told that you were a local farmer with a contract with Beans and Barley to sell your produce in 2008. There have been a lot of items in the news encouraging people to buy local. How is it that you are a farmer able to enable people at Beans and Barley to buy locally grown produce?

[Community_garden] Major Milwaukee Co-op Thrilled w. Roof Farm of Artisan Turning Urban Farmer

Dear All, This comes from an organizer at Milwaukee's Outpost Natural Foods, recently encountering Community Growers(inspired by Will Allen's Growing Power), which connects urban artisans with urban farming. Erik Lindberg has been astonished at the yield Growing Power's compost affords. From

[Community_garden] Grace Lee Boggs Links Transportation w. Community Building/Edible Cities

A quality city is not one that has great roads but one where a child can safely go anywhere on a bicycle. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people. LIVING FOR CHANGE A (NEARLY) CARFREE SOCIETY IS POSSIBLE By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen,

[Community_garden] Tax Credits for Your Urban Farm and Tom Friedman

Dear All, Why does not Thomas Friedman embrace our movement? How could he not understand the enormous energy saving implication of millions of people composting, growing great soil and food in backyards, roof top farms, and community gardens? I can understand why Obama has yet to get it. He

[Community_garden] Letter from London: Community Gardeners No Longer Just The Beardy Weirdy's

This is a letter by Ben Reynolds, organizer of the Growing Food For London international conference, inspired by visits to Growing Power sites in the U.S.A. and the Milwaukee International Urban Agriculture Conference, to a NYT reporter… Perhaps the people form MoveOn are ready to take notice of

[Community_garden] Victory Gardens Toured by Michelle Obama?

Dear All, Would it not be totally inspiring to find Michelle Obama, vitally concerned with childhood health, are this great historic moment? City Breaks Ground on July 1 for Slow Food Nation Victory Garden July 12 Community Planting Day with Mayor Gavin Newsom, Slow Food Nation Founder Alice

[Community_garden] To Find Michelle Obama...at this great historic moment!

I hate it when I rush madly around and ignore fine form, e.g. proper spelling. Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea maxima culpa. Olde -- Forwarded message -- From: James Godsil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 24, 2008 7:34 AM Subject: Victory Gardens Toured by Michelle Obama? To: Community

[Community_garden] Seek Partners to Co-Create a New Orleans Renaissance

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[Community_garden] Any Thoughts on Joe Jenkins' Classic Humanure

Dear All, Joe Jenkins is the author of the highly regarded young classic The Slate Roof Bible. In my roofing world, he's highly esteemed, And his book really is just that. The bible of our trade! What say anyone about Joe Jenkins' Humanure? Hot July 1 Evening Milwaukee 2008 --

[Community_garden] Obama Team Offers Urban Agrarians Method for Influencing Platform

Dear All, It is my understanding that the Obama team has welcomed grass roots movements becoming net roots to advance their cause within the Obama movement and is paying attention to the develoments at this site... http://my.barackobama.com I have been told a person/group can create a platform

[Community_garden] Connectivity, Internet Empowerment, Food Security Movement

Dear All, Our movement will flower if we make rhizome connections with our soil partners of all shapes and sizes, and develop mechanisms to spread wider and deeper, bringing nutrients and necessities to the good cause. There is an article in today's NYT regarding Obama's campaign bringing on one

[Community_garden] New Orleans Lower 9th Ward Urban Farming Coalition Welcomes Artisans and Organic Farmers

Dear All, Anyone up for a work vacation in the Delta during the winters of 2009 through 2029? http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/NewOrleansRenaissancePartnerships/HomePage *On this page…* 1. Lower Ninth Ward Urban Farming Coalition Welcomes Artisans and Organic Farmers to Their

[Community_garden] Mississippi River Ecology Barge from Minneapolis to New Orleans?

* http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/NewOrleansRenaissancePartnerships/HomePage On this page…* 1. Lower Ninth Ward Urban Farming Coalition Welcomes Artisans and Organic Farmers to Their Projectshttp://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/NewOrleansRenaissancePartnerships/HomePage#toc1 2.

[Community_garden] Seek Most Thoughtful Composting City Code

Dear All, I just met with a city inspector responding to a complaint regarding my front yard landscaping, which turns out to be my best effort as an intern urban farmer to make a Front Yard Victory Garden. Her complaint regarding my not having wood chips as ground cover between my plants makes

[Community_garden] Growing Power Black Gold, Red Wrigglers, and Urban Farming Methods to New Orleans?

Community Growershttp://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CommunityGrowers/HomePageSeeks Black Gold Red Wriggler Great Lakes Delta Trade Routes and Partners Stating with 9th Wardhttp://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/NewOrleansRenaissancePartnerships/9thWard,

[Community_garden] When Milwaukee and New Orleans Become Holy Cities

*The Marriage That Made Your City Some Kind of Holy Place* Your city will start feeling like some kind of Holy City, when On cold winter or rainy spring or hot summer days Laid off construction workers And retired young elders will gather veggie wastes From every neighborhood's food and cafe

[Community_garden] Will Allen's Growing Power Team Has New Website

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[Community_garden] Milwaukee's Will Allen of Growing Power Wins MacArthur Genius Award!

*2008 MacArthur Fellows* Will Allen Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations. In 1995, while assisting neighborhood children with a gardening project, Allen began developing the farming methods

[Community_garden] Inspire Thomas Friedman to Awaken to Urban Agriculture

Dear All, There is probably no journalist in the U.S.A. with the clout and single-minded focus on energy technology(ET) as Thomas Friedman. His books are always best sellers and his columns are probably read by more people than anyone else. Why is it that he has yet to make one mention of the

[Community_garden] Will Thomas Friedman Discover the Sun Food Agenda?

Dear All, I wonder if Will Allen's MacArthur Genius Award and, now, Michael Pollan's Farmer in Chief NYT Sunday Magazine essay... Will inspire Thomas Friedman to connect the dots and discover the link between the local, good food, sun food movements and ET, green job development, environmental

[Community_garden] Few Dozen Pictures of Will Allen's Dec.Growing Power Tour

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ourrenaissance/ The first two pages of this flickr account have lots of pictures From decent to modest quality of Will Allen's Dec. 2nd Growing Power Tour, 2008. If you would like to attend a Will Allen Growing Power tour in 2009, send an e-mail to

[Community_garden] When the Obamas and Vilsack Visit Will Allen's Growing Power Urban Farm

It is only a matter of a few months that Obama, Michelle, and family, along with Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, witness the Miracle of Growing Power in an old Milwaukee neighborhood, location of the most fertile 2 acres in the nation. Obama Family's and Vilsack's Growing Power Awakening Once

[Community_garden] London Foodlink Urban Agriculture News Roundup

Dear Urban Agriculturalists, Here is your first Winter Urban Agriculture Round-up. Scroll down to find the full details and please don't hesitate to get in touch with your news.a...@sustainweb.org Best wishes, Anna Terzi *1) National Food-Coops Conference* * * *2) Discussion Paper: A

[Community_garden] Will Allen Tours, Sweet Water Fish Co-ops, the KK River Village Fish Farm

Will Allen, a MacArthur Foundation Genius of Innovation for the Public Good, inspired all who attended his monthly Will Allen Growing Power Tour. Will Allen Growing Power Tours December 2008 These pictures of modest technical quality, nevertheless, capture some important moments in the evolution

[Community_garden] Paul Schmitt of Obama's Innovation and Civil Society Team.Wants to Hear Your Good Food Movement Story

Dear All, Milwaukeean Paul Schmitt is a leader of the Obama Transition's Innovation and Civil Society Team. I believe Paul is very much aware of the potential of Will Allen's urban farming and aquaculture systems. I think he would be happy to learn about other urban agriculture and good food

[Community_garden] Milwaukee's First Roof-Top Farm Offers CSA Shares.

Inspired by Will Allen's Growing Power methods and using Growing Power's compost... Community Growers has inaugurated Milwaukee's first *roof-top farm*. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsAUS86J7E http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/ErikLindberg

[Community_garden] Fathers, Serve Food to Your Children!

Fathers, Serve Food to Your Children! Fathers, serve food to your children! From your hands... Mind... Heart... To their sweet souls And sacred bodies. Learning...Slowly -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[Community_garden] Original Poster of Roof-top Farm Responds to Some Questions Raised

Dear All, The Community Growers Roof-top Farm is located in Riverwest, Milwaukee. Riverwest Milwaukee is the neighborhood where all of God's children are partnering In Will Allen's Growing Power inspired backyard food gardens, community gardens, Roof-top gardens, edible playgrounds, aquaculture

[Community_garden] Seek Poetry/Art re Good Food Movement

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[Community_garden] Green Renaissance Work Vacations

Obama's call for... a new era of responsibility... greatness earned...harnessing the energy of sun, wind, and soil... has inspired a concept I hope some will consider worthy of some on-line brainstorming: Green Renaissance Work Vacations(GRWV) Green Renaissance Work Vacations would find

[Community_garden] Wisconsin's Gov. Doyle mentioned Will Allen in the State of the State speech

I want to recognize someone who exemplifies that spirit, someone who shows how creativity and hard work can provide us with more than we thought possible. I am going to introduce you to someone who saw urban Milwaukee as an unlikely center for agriculture – someone who found a way to raise fish

[Community_garden] So Our Children Can YouTube The Good Food Movement, Locally Produced

Dear All, Would it not be a good thing for some of our more mature and creative students To win course credit, earn some money, make a mark... Creating youtube chronicles of... The Good Food Movement? If anyone has some school teacher or administrator friends Who would like to brainstorm

[Community_garden] Will Allen Prefers Green Food

Dear All, A couple of years back I asked Will Allen If I could tag along and be his Boswell. In that capacity, I am forced to share Will's trial concept, i.e. green food. To those who do not like mine and others term, i.e. The Good Food Movement, how about... The Green Food Movement? What

[Community_garden] Commercial Replication of Will Allen's Greenhouse Aquaculture System Launched in Milwaukee

Original Mammoth Harnishfeger Crane Assembly Factory Transforming Into Commercial Aquaculture System Great photos at...http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/HomePage Once the entire system is completed, eight fish raceways with a total of 110,000 gallons of water are expected to possibly

[Community_garden] Urban Aquaculture Conversations

Dear All, A google group has been formed to share stories and information About urban aquaculture projects and experiments. http://groups.google.com/group/urban-aquaculture-conversations Please send an e-mail to godsil.ja...@gmail.com if you Would like us to sign you up. Or, you can sign

[Community_garden] Transforming Industrial Slums into Urban Fish and Vegetable Farms Solar Villages

Dear All, Might anyone have any ideas or resource people for transforming industrial slums Comprising about 6 acres of land and buildings Into quite self-reliant and commonwealth conscious Urban villages with aquaponic fish and herb/veggie farming As the anchor project? There are scores of old

[Community_garden] Urban Agrarian Crash Pad Exchange Project

Dear All, It took my about 5 minutes to compose and send forth a call for free lodging For 4 Growing Power trainees last night. By 9 a.m. this morning 8 households responded with offers of nice places to stay. Would it not make sense for all of our cities to have lists of households Ready to

[Community_garden] Waste Heat Producing Industries and Mondragon Worker Co-op Fish Vegetable Farms

Dear All, Would anyone be up for a partnership of 36.5 years, Aiming to *discover the heat waste producers in Milwaukee *Or your city!* *discover empty lots next to heat waste producers *partner with he heat waste producer companies *to grow fish for/with their workers and owners *create

[Community_garden] Aquaculture Anchor Projects for Permaculture Renewals of Industrial Slums

Crafting Live Work Teach Market Modules for Permaculture Renewals http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/PermacultureMovement Let's say that we have 5 acres of land astride 2 acres of industrial slum buildings, We can call the Sweet River Village. About a quarter acre of the building complex

[Community_garden] Hop On Milwaukee's Underground RR to Urban Ag Projects!

Dear All, When I have broadcast the need for free or bartered room and board For people attending Growing Power From the Ground Up Workshops, From 5 to 10 families offer room and board, either for free or for barter. I now have a list of 20 such families/households. I can't swear to deliver on

[Community_garden] Will Allen Growing Power Tour, 3/24/09 in Milwaukee

*TOUR DIRECTED BY* *WILL ALLEN* Tuesday March 24, 2009 Tour starts at 3:00 pm Location: 5500 West Silver Spring Dr. Milwaukee, WI 53218 Next to the Army Reserve Center For more details call

[Community_garden] Seek Tests of Soil's Nutrient Levels

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[Community_garden] Barter/Exchange Questions

What would be a fair exchange with my friends, involving: * very good compost and worm castings in return for *very good sifting, mixing(compost, coir, castings), seeding labor How many hours of potting labor for 20 gallons compost and coir And 4 gallons of worm castings? Barter Hoping

[Community_garden] Re Light for Aquaculture Project in Old Industrial Building

Dear All, Allan Washatko suggested we use a material called polygal to replace the thousands Of broken, opaque, or boarded up windows at the Sweet Water Fish Farm project. These pictures chronicle, perhaps also with batch 4 5, the removal of the old And their replacement with new custom

[Community_garden] 2 Year Old Cow Manure and Worm Castings

Dear All, I have been making potted plants with compost on the bottom And then a worm casting/coir mix of 50/50 for top 2 inches. This is my understanding of Will Allen's methods. I have recently been offfered a couple of truckloads of 2 year old cow manure, And am wondering where in that mix

[Community_garden] USDA, HUD, and Urban Agriculture Collaborations

* Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009)* * *** *Here are the key recommendations suggesting a USDA and HUD collaboration for Food Security and Economic Development: * Reconfiguring land use: Depending on the scale, vacant land could be put

[Community_garden] Report to HUD Calls for Extra $$ and Technical Help for Urban Ag Projects

Dear All, The Penn report* to HUD chief Donovan calls for extra funds and technical assistance for trailblazing urban ag projects in our cities. Does anyone have any thoughts about grass roots actions that will increase the likelihood of Donovan embracing this report?

[Community_garden] Will Allen Inspired Milwaukee CSA Roof Farm Blog

April 13 http://rooffarmer.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/april-13/ April 14, 2009 by rooffarmer So. I have big flat roof on my commercial building in Milwaukee, which I turned into a vegetable “farm” using raised beds.Last summer was my first season, and the results were good enough that I

[Community_garden] Growing Power founder up for national award

Growing Power founder up for national award By Karen Herzog of the Journal Sentinel Apr. 21, 2009 | If there was any doubt about Will Allen's rock star status in the urban agriculture movement, his latest award nomination puts him in the company of Michael Pollan, bestselling author of Omnivore's

[Community_garden] Composite Deck Boards w. Polypropylene for Raised Beds w. or w/o a Barrier?

Dear All, Might anyone know if composite deck boards, containing polypropylene with an antimicrobial agent, for raised beds will contaminate soil. If yes, are there appropriate barriers that could be used? Godsil http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GovernmentandGrassRootPartnerships/HomePage

[Community_garden] Sun Nature Powered KK Urban Aquaculture Campus Village

Dear All, Is it more eco or ego to weed and water visions such as this For our fair cities? *** Hoping Lindner Fraundorf Washatko partner with *Growing Power *Great Lakes Water Institute *Milwaukee's Department of City Development *HUD, USDA, Energy Departments *

[Community_garden] England Offers Fish Farm Training for Special Needs Youth

The objective of the project is to provide training and learning opportunities to young people from several groups: those identified as being in danger of exclusion from school; those already excluded; groups from the probation service; and young people recovering from substance misuse. - To

[Community_garden] U.S. Marine Inspired by Aquaculture's Possibilities for Peace

Sweet Water, I'm an active duty Marine with an eye toward my future. I recently started an aquaponics system in my backyard, and I have been mostly happy with the results. I still have much to learn, for sure. Today, I'm writing to see if you have licensing partnerships planned for the future.

[Community_garden] Organize Campaign Supporting Will Allen's Call for Centers for Urban Agriculture

As soon as it became clear that Congress would pass the National Recovery Act, I and members of my staff brainstormed ideas for a meaningful stimulus package aimed at creating green jobs, shoring up the security of our urban food systems, and promoting sound food policies of national scope. The

[Community_garden] Will Allen Hopes For Your Comments At His Manifesto Blog

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[Community_garden] June 13 14 Will Allen Growing Power Milwaukee From the Ground Up Workshop

Dear All, We have had some pretty good luck inspiring Growing Power's Milwaukee supporters To offer free lodging for visitors to From the Ground Up Workshops. To register for this first ever Summer From the Ground Up Workshop go to...

[Community_garden] Urban Agriculture and Water Privatization

Dear All, I just discovered last night that there are Milwaukee aldermen Who would spend $150,000 to $200,000 to hire consultants To pave the way for privatizing our water! Privatized water would be a setback for our urban agriculture movement. If anyone can help us resist this, please send

[Community_garden] Data Entry Volunteer Work W. Growing Power Information Architect Emmanuel Pratt

Dear All, Emmanuel Pratt, Will Allen's information architect, has made great strides harnessing the power of the internet to the local food and Growing Power cause If you would be interested in working with Emmanuel and Catherine Donnelly, co-owner of the Design Office to upgrade Growing

[Community_garden] Composting Question: Best Alternative to Wood Chips for Carbon Ingredient?

Dear All, Growing Power inspired, Great Lakes Water Institute informed, Sweet Water Organics fish and vegetable farm Is very likely launching a very major composting project, In cooperation with Growing Power and Carbon/nitrogen providers of wood chips, Spent brewery grain, coffee grounds, fruit

[Community_garden] Seek Artisan For Growing Power Training For Use: Detroit Summer 2010

Dear All, Might anyone know someone with artisinal skills Who could consider a Growing Power From the Ground Up Weekend workshop to acquire skills sufficient to Help create some hoop house growing systems in Detroit Summer 2010 over a week or two work vacation? Grateful, Godsil --

[Community_garden] Sweet Water Organics Fish Farm Transforms Milwaukee Industrial Slum

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[Community_garden] Major Will Allen NYT Sunday Magazine Piece Now On-Line

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[Community_garden] Please Advance This: The President and the Street Farmer Teach the Troops

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[Community_garden] 1, 000 Yellow Perch Arrive at Sweet Water Fish and Vegetable Farm in Milwaukee

Lots of nice pictures at... *http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/HomePage* Sweet Water is a commercial upgrading of Will Allen's Growing Power Aquaponics in collaboration with the Great Lakes Water Insitute Providing research oversight. Hopefully, this transformation of an industrial

[Community_garden] Ideas for U.S. Marine's Aquaculture Project in Afghanistan?

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[Community_garden] Nice Article on Aquaponics Transformation of Old Milwaukee Factory

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[Community_garden] Reading List for Continuing Education re: Urban Agriculture Movement Green Renaissance of Industrial Cities

Dear All, There are educators at the University of Minnesota's continuing education programs Considering a course which would introduce life-long learners to the Urban Agriculture Movement and the Green Renaissance of Industrial Cities. Might anyone have any reading lists to share on these

[Community_garden] Major Growing Power Inspired Aquaponics Initiative for India In the Works

Dear All, If anyone would like to help advance this project, send me a note. *** This year (2009), at the 5th World Water Forum, WOTR was awarded the coveted Kyoto World Water Grand Prize, beating out 67 other organizations globally, in recognition of their outstanding contribution to organizing

[Community_garden] 80 Photos of Sweet Water's First 90 Days

*http://www.flickr.com/photos/ourrenaissance/* This is my first draft of photos toward my coffee table book on The Story of the Sweet Water Fish Vegetable Farm... Created in an old industrial building in Bay View Milwaukee, Not far from the site of the Bay View Massacre during The struggle for

[Community_garden] A Four Season Hoop House for Each and Every Fire House!

Our fire fighters are poised to help us grow local! In each firehouse are one or two valiant firefighters Who are also avid food gardeners. All they need is help constructing hoop houses at the firehouses, Some compost and worm castings, and... Oh my God, did you taste the spinach from the

[Community_garden] Bring Your Students and Elders to Milwaukee For Sweet Water Tour!

We will help you find accommodations and other places to visit! Like, say, the epicenter of the urban agriculture movement, i.e. Growing Power! http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[Community_garden] Seek Stories re Major Corporations Supporting Local Composting Projects

Dear All, Key to Sweet Water Organics Fish and Vegetable Farm's compost vermiculture efforts is Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. of Milwaukee, which has given us the fruit and veggie residues from their Pick ’n Save Store on Holt Avenue in Bay View, Milwaukee. When mixed with the wood chips provided

[Community_garden] Golden Thread Factory Buildings and Vermiculture Aquaculture Ph.D. M.A. Program to Construct

Sweet Water Organics and an emerging global web of urban agriculture vision workers are in conversation with the Sea Grant Foundation Great Lakes Water Institute to lay the foundation for Ph.D. and M.A. candidates to focus their course work on the research issues inspired by a new industry in the

[Community_garden] A Nobel Prize for the Good Food (r)Evolution

Dear All, Bill Clinton's declaration of Growing Power's Will Allen as my hero, And commitment of $2,000,000 for Big Will's contextually appropriate, cost efficient, high yield, sustainable, local food system models for South Africa and Zimbabwe... and The Milwaukee Zoological Society's Congo

[Community_garden] Wisconsin Foodie T.V. Show on Sweet Water Fish Vegetable Farm in Milwaukee

Dear All, The Sweet Water Organics fish vegetable farm is in a 10,000 sq. ft. old Milwaukee factory building. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSyx0noGpeM It represents the marriage of urban artisans, artists, and agrarians. We hope to help others experiment with vermiculture based aquaponic

[Community_garden] Experiment w. Google Wave Brainstorm re Will Allen's and Grace Lee Boggs' Theory/Practice

Dear All, If Jac Smits is the Father of Urban Agriculture, Grace Lee Boggs, for me, is the Mother, And Will Allen is the proud first Son. Grace and her husband Jimmy Boggs spelled out a theory of Detroit's renewal back in the 1980s That gave a key place to urban agriculture. Will Allen has

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