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Local Vs Imported--How Do We Decide?
[ WorldChanging ]
Mon, 13 Aug increases the visibility of local farms, improves the local economy, promotes urban agriculture, preserves rural farmland and prevents sprawl,
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Philadelphia Orchard Project
[ Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press ]
Wed, 29 Aug Society's Philadelphia Green Program) vacant lots; hope that urban agriculture will become a permanent part of the city's structure and economy;
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Gardens in the hood
[ Grist Magazine ]
Tue, 28 Aug Phoebe Connelly and Chelsea Ross have a detailed and incredibly heartening story on urban agriculture in In These Times. It focuses on urban ag projects
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Willie Nelson, John Cougar take Farm Aid to New York
[ Newsday ]
Fri, 31 Aug Farm Aid is also trying to build awareness of urban agriculture projects such as East New York Farms!, an excitably named nonprofit in Brooklyn.
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Teens cultivate character, cukes
[ Winnipeg Free Press ]
Thu, 16 Aug Barnett and his team have spent the last four years helping Winnipeg teens learn the principles of eco-friendly urban agriculture on the farm at FortWhyte.
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Growing pains
[ Hindustan Times ]
Wed, 15 Aug But to actually bridge the rural-urban, agriculture-non-agriculture divide, it will take a policy that has a fixed and sensitive gaze that goes much beyond
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House that: farmers on a buying spree
[ Hindustan Times ]
Fri, 17 Aug Rural India continues to spring surprise after surprise. Market research on India's nascent real estate sector, conducted by Noida-based IIMS Dataworks in
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