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Move Over, Community Gardens: Edible Forests Are Sprouting Up Across America, Aug 16 <ref>[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/move-over-community-gardens-edible-forests-are-sprouting-across-america-180960024/ Smithsonian]</ref> | Move Over, Community Gardens: Edible Forests Are Sprouting Up Across America, Aug 16 <ref>[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/move-over-community-gardens-edible-forests-are-sprouting-across-america-180960024/ Smithsonian]</ref> | ||
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Community gardening in the United StatesCommunity gardening in the United States encompasses a wide variety of approaches. Some influential community gardens, such as the Clinton Community Garden in the middle of Manhattan in New York City, and the Peralta garden in Berkeley, California, inspired by architect and community garden visionary Karl Linn, are gathering places for neighbors and showcases for art and ecological awareness, with food production cherished but seen as one part of a much larger vision. Other gardens resemble European "allotment" gardens, with plots where individuals and families can grow vegetables and flowers, including a number (for instance, in Minneapolis and Ann Arbor, Michigan) which began as "Victory Gardens" during World War II. Even such "food" gardens can be very different — for instance, plot sizes range widely from as small as 1.5m × 1.5m (5 ft × 5 ft) in some inner city gardens and art gardens, such as the Dovetail Garden in Charlotte, North Carolina, to relatively large plots of 15m × 15m (50 ft × 50 ft) such as those at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Some community gardens, in contrast, are devoted entirely to creating ecological green space or habitat, still others to growing flowers, and others to education or providing access to gardening to those who otherwise could not have a garden, such as the elderly, recent immigrants or the homeless — for example, the Community Garden for the Homeless, in Charlotte, is not far away from the very different Dovetail Garden. Some gardens are worked as community farms with no individual plots at all, shading into becoming urban farms. W CampaignsOrganic Consumers Association, consumer protection and organic agriculture advocacy group based in Finland, Minnesota. It was formed in 1998 in the wake of opposition by organic consumers to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's controversial proposed regulations for organic food. The OCA is an online non-profit public interest organization that has over 850,000 members in its database. The members include subscribers, volunteers, supporters, and 3,000 cooperating retail co-ops, such as in the natural foods and organic marketplace. The OCA is one of the only organizations in the U.S focused on promoting the interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic consumers.
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Food Coops
Local food
Seasonal food
Seed sharing
Solar cooking MapsKnow Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass Map, USDA, information for the years 2009-2012 Serve Your Country Food, A project of the greenhorns - see external links yardsharing.org, share a yard, grow a community ResearchCenter for Regional Food Systems, Michigan State University Creating Change in the Food System: The Role of Regional Food Networks in Iowa, 2012 Center for Regional Food Systems VideoError in widget YouTube: Unable to load template 'wiki:YouTube'
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EventsOctober 24 - Food Day, in the United States is celebrated annually on October 24 and oftentimes throughout the month. The Food Day initiative is now run by Food Day.org within CSPI. W News and comment2016 Seed Libraries And The Law - Organic Gardening, Dec 8 [1] A New Almanac for the Young Farmers of the World, Nov 6 [2] Move Over, Community Gardens: Edible Forests Are Sprouting Up Across America, Aug 16 [3] Beyond Food: Community Gardens as Places of Connection and Empowerment, Mar 2 [4] Activist Farmers Tell the Food System That Black Lives Matter, February 19 [5] 2015 Opinion: The USDA Is Putting $34.3 Million Into Local Food Projects. Will It Be Enough?, November 13 [6] House passes bill blocking states from requiring GMO labels on food, July 23 [7] 2014 Duluth City Council Unanimously Passes Seed Sharing Resolution, December 22 [8] Setting the Record Straight on the Legality of Seed Libraries, August 11 [9] Agrihoods: Emerging Self-Sustainable Communities, April 15 [10] 2013 Tasty, and Subversive, Too, May 11 [11] 2011 Town with population of 1,012 declares the right to produce and sell local foods of their choosing, March 9 [12] See also
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