Ever Wanted To Start A Community Garden?

Some tips in this article from online news magazine slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/id/2224268/pagenum/all/#p2

Video: A Farmer and A Farmers' Market

9 min. video about NY's Union Square Greenmarket and one of the farmers who supplies it. (At seriouseats.com, via kottke.org)

Late Blight, The Food Chain & Home Gardens

An excellently wide-ranging article on the factors that might be involved in this year's severe and wide-spread late blight.

In other news: DEET is a neurotoxin in insects and mammals, study claims.

More at science daily.

Food Inc. ...

... plays at the Naro through Thursday, August 6th.

"No evidence of a health benefit from consuming organic"

A new study from the UK Food Standards Agency finds.

Week 10 (July 25, 2009)

In this week's share ... basil, carrots, cucumber, lettuce, potatoes, peppers, squash, tomatoes, zucchini, 1 of green beans or kohlrabi or okra

Where are the young farmers?

A frequent topic of conversation at pick-up. Reported on in
USAToday.

Related: video of Joel Salatin on the topic (and others).

Pilot article on local community gardens

Here.

Week 5 (June 20, 2009)

In the share this week .... cabbage, cucumber, kale, lettuce (buttercrunch or romaine), Korean peppers, tatsoi, zucchini, beets or turnips.