Vancouver, BC, environmental artist, Nicole Dextras makes amazing Weedrobes during the summer months. That is clothing made from plants and flowers. They're 100% compostable when you're done.
I met Nicole recently when I was in Vancouver and I love what she does.
I got to "guest post" on the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution Day blog today. Here's the link to Grow Your Own Urban Food Revolution.
Leave me a comment if you have a helpful or interesting site that would go along with this list. I just chose a dozen or so off the top of my head. But I'd be keen to learn about new projects and new sites.
Straight, No Chaser - Episode 25 - Food and the City
First Aired - 04/29/2012 01:00PM
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This week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer talks urban agriculture with Jennifer Cockrall-King, author of "Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution", a tour of urban agricultural centers in Canada, the US, Cuba and Europe. Tune in as they discuss the viability of growing food in cities and highlight some particular cities that are helping to make agriculture sustainable again in an urban setting. Learn how beekeeping and urban chickens were once commonplace and how the recent explosion of homesteading and self sustenance is a throwback to the way things once were. This program was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
"Urban farming is one single activity that can cure a host of other urban problems."
"We haven't invented urban agriculture, we've just re-discovered it."
--author Jennifer Cockrall-King on Straight, No Chaser, aired April 29, 2012
Heritage Radio, NYC, Urban Agriculture Hi Vancouver. I'm in your flowering city today for Earth Day. I'll be at Banyen Books & Sound for a free talk, slideshow (of many of the urban gardens I visited around the world) and book signing. The event is free, so come down and say hello.
Urban Beehives on the rooftop gardens at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Waterfront
Here's the link to the event info on Banyen Books & Sound's page.
On May 19, 2012, it's Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day. We're all encouraged to create a local food event to keep the momentum moving forward towards more sustainable and healthy food choices. Here's what my friends and I have cooked up as a Food Revolution Day event in beautiful Naramata, British Columbia, Canada.
Erika and Florian Maurer have the most amazing permaculture and food garden and their home residence and art studio. They were putting together an artshow at their garden/studio that weekend as part of the annual self-guided Art on the Naramata Bench Studio Tour, May 19 & 20. When they asked me if I wanted to join in and do a book launch in their garden, I jumped at the chance.
What is better than local art, thumbing through a book about urban agriculture, and getting a peek at an incredible home food garden on a sunny Saturday afternoon?
Maurer Residence courtyard garden and art studio, Naramata, British Columbia, Canada
So come by and meet Erika Maurer, Florian Maurer, and me. Look at (or buy some) art, talk about urban agriculture and sustainable food in cities around the world (I'll have books for sale), and soak in the beauty of the Maurer's beautiful permaculture home food garden and art studio in Naramata, BC. We'll all be there from 11 am to 5 pm, Saturday, May 19. (Art Tour continues on Sunday, May 20, 11 am to 5 pm.)
If you are impressed with the house, you are not alone. Florian is an award-winning Canadian architect. Their residence won the 2006 Governor General Award for architecture.
Allen + Maurer Architects www.allenmaurer.com
Photo courtesy of Florian Maurer
Maurer Studio, Florian and Erika Maurer
2843 Arawana Pl
Site 11 Box A Comp 5
Naramata, V0H 1N0
British Columbia
Phone 250-276-4253
Jennifer CK
The event is now up on the Food Revolution Day site: http://www.foodrevolutionday.com/public-event/424/Urban-Ag-Book-Launch-Garden-Tour.html
Hope to see people there!
