petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 01 2009 | csa, agriculture, cities, development, planning, farming, co-op
Quoted: In the Fall of 1972, she says, “Jules toured the neighborhood selling apples from the back of his station wagon and talking co-op to anyone who would listen. He also distributed flyers door-to-door. Finally, when enough people had chipped in a few dollars apiece, Jules was ready to make his dream a reality. He rented the store front at 555 Carpenter Lane, which had been Sid’s Delicatessen.”
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2009 | people, shopping, news, agriculture, cities
Quoted: A particularly high-profile farmers market opened in Washington, D.C., this week. It's just two blocks from the White House -- and the first customer was the first lady. Michelle Obama shopped for potatoes, peppers and Tuscan kale with Secret Service agents all around.
ShareViewed: 1 Time- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2009 | farming, agriculture, urban
Quoted: Over the past several years, a new approach to farming has emerged. One that is grounded in local food systems and has a close connection to the consumer. One that is crafted around ecological processes and ...
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2009 | education, agriculture, urban
This looks like an amazing city school!
Quoted: W. B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences is located in the upper Roxborough section of Philadelphia on the rolling hills of the Wissahickon Valley bordering Fairmount Park. The multi-building complex is located on a 130-acre campus. On one side of Henry Avenue are Academic, Agricultural, Greenhouses, Physical Education/ Health, and Small Animal Laboratory buildings bordered by an arboretum and athletic fields. On the opposite side of Henry Avenue is the working farm ...
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 24 2008 | agriculture, cities, philadelphia, development
Quoted: The Food Trust operates 30 farmers' markets in the Philadelphia area, many of which are in neighborhoods underserved by supermarkets, grocery stores, and other fresh food outlets. All of The Food Trust's markets accept food stamp/EBT/Access cards, WIC, and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2008 | people, history, literature, books, poetry, agriculture
Quoted: academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays.
ShareViewed: 5 Times- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 07 2008 | news, water, sustainability, world, international, agriculture
Quoted: Across the countryside of this nation on the heel of the Arabian Peninsula, the pumps and drills roar. Wildcatters bore as much as 1,000 feet into the earth and draw out the valuable liquid. They pump it into tankers and haul it away to sell to the highest bidder.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | architecture, development, agriculture, photography, international, india, dharavi
Great photos and commentary on architecture, infrastructure, and even agriculture in Mumbai's Dharavi settlement.
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Michael Pollan on the Farm Bill...
Quoted: If the eaters make themselves heard, we might end up with something that looks less like a farm bill and more like the food bill a poorly fed America so badly needs.
ShareViewed: 19 Times - petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | sustainability, planning, design, energy, development, international, world, innovation, ideas, technology, agriculture, nature, environment, cities
Quoted: an approach to designing human settlements, in particular the development of perennial agricultural systems that mimic the structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies...Exemplary permaculture designs evolve over time, and can become extremely complex mosaics of conventional and inventive cultural systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.
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