petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2009 | people, shopping, news, agriculture, cities
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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 - 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
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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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