Donated vegetable garden growing hope for homeless in Palm Beach County
Jenece Fields is planting herbs in a vegetable garden at Palm Beach County's first homeless resource center. She's almost 75 days into a 90-day program to help the county's homeless find employment and...
View ArticleCathie Anderson: Food bank traces farm-to-fork trend
Most food banks still depend on grocery store handouts comprised largely of processed food, but for several years now, Blake Young has been leading a farm-to-fork revolution at the Sacramento Food Bank...
View ArticleTom Eblen: Jefferson Street project aims to be gathering place for those who...
Nobody paid much attention to the old industrial building on Jefferson Street until July 17, 2008, when a spectacular two-alarm fire gutted Star Light & Magic, a theatrical special effects company....
View ArticleCooking Up a Celebration of Food Check-Out Week
Food Check-Out Week, set for Feb. 17 through Feb. 23, provides an excellent opportunity to celebrate Florida’s farmers and ranchers. Gainesville, Fla. (PRWEB) February 06, 2013 Florida’s farmers and...
View ArticleOur Town: AtlantaHomeless shelter’s rooftop garden provides more than food
A garden can be a place of calm reflection, a spot to restore energy and serenity. When that garden is on a downtown rooftop in the shadow of Midtown skyscrapers, it also becomes an oasis of peace in...
View ArticleSujet Saenkham supplies Spice I Am’s kaffir limes from his own farm
As the heavens open and throw a steamy blanket over the lush green hills of Kangaroo Valley, NSW, chef and restaurateur Sujet Saenkham wheels a barrow of kaffir limes to his van. The talented co-owner...
View ArticleGarden teaches community to grow together and share
BROOKSVILLE -- "It only took five years," jokes Dave Bahr about the new Auro Community Garden sign that faces U.S. 41 and makes the location a little less obscure. The garden initiative, sponsored by a...
View ArticleProduce farm teaches students about healthy food
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Jasmine O'Hare reached out her hand, eager to try a piece of raw turnip. But once Julie Dietz, Seton Harvest outreach manager, handed O'Hare a piece of it and she took a large...
View ArticleVolunteers drive van across the Bronx and Manhattan to feed the hungry and...
He's a man with a van — and a mission. Construction worker Carlos Vargas, who started a mobile food pantry four years ago, and his volunteer crew feed up to 150 people a week in the Bronx and...
View ArticleGarden provides healthy foods for students, staff
Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men started a garden this past summer under the direction of teacher Marquita Reese. Reese and her...
View ArticleDenver to Become One Big Farmer's Market with Approval of New Urban Farming Law
The Blue Bear Farm on the grounds of the Colorado Conventions Center. Photo credit Stevie Crecelius (PRNewsFoto/VISIT DENVER, The Convention ...) × The Blue Bear Farm on the grounds of the Colorado...
View ArticleUrban farming: Growing community and food
West Valley City • Andrea Agüin knows a thing or two about gardening — and about how its pleasures are often beyond the reach of apartment residents. So Agüin, who recently received a horticulture...
View ArticlePittsburgh is at the forefront of an unruly food movement: Permaculture
Darrell Frey, a lanky 55-year-old farmer with a goatee and ponytail, peels back overgrown brush to reveal blueberry bushes. "I guess they call me 'The Original Gangsta' of Pittsburgh permaculture," he...
View ArticleHere's How You Can Help
A father shows his daughter sprouts at the Vallejo People's Garden in California. (Photo: USFS Region 5/Flickr) This story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network. It hurts when your stomach is...
View ArticleCommunity gardens for Sacramento's homeless to grow fresh produce
You may wish to check out the May 2, 2014 Sacramento Bee article by Cynthia Hubert, "Sacramento homeless gather this weekend to promote ‘SafeGround,’ civil rights."Finally, homeless people can grow...
View ArticleHomestead-based Farm Share program brings fresh fruit, vegetables to needy...
Farm Share’s big red truck is a sign of hope for many in some of Florida’s poorest areas, where fruits and vegetables — even green beans, squash and eggplant — are a luxury. Last year, Farm Share, a...
View ArticleDecember gardening in Central Florida
December generally brings much cooler and drier conditions to Central Florida gardens. Due to lower water requirements by plants, automatic irrigation systems can generally be shut off and only used...
View ArticleEarth Day 2015: Feeding America Asks Farmers and Gardeners to Help Feed...
Feeding America Facebook Twitter Pinterest Feeding America Logo Facebook Twitter Pinterest × View full size Feeding America Feeding America Logo CHICAGO, April 22, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --...
View ArticleGrowing Food On Walls To "Vegecate" Kids? What's Next In Social Transformation?
“Green” is overflowing in the South Bronx, an economically challenged urban area and the nation’s poorest Congressional district. But the “green” isn’t money – it’s food. And the urban gardeners are...
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