Posts Tagged: Growing Power

Hope for a Healthy Food System

Posted September 15th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

By Anna Cioffi LSP and Hope Community in Minneapolis have come together to create a project called Growing Neighborhood Access to Healthy Food. Why has an organization known for its rural organizing teamed up with an urban community group? Because a truly sustainable food and farming system requires that everyone have access to healthy, affordable… Read more »

Urban Agrarianism

Posted January 21st, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

The City of Minneapolis is considering how to make it easier for “urban ag” to exist in some of the most non-rural neighborhoods in the state. In fact, the public comment period for the Urban Agriculture Policy Plan wraps up Jan. 31. Ag in the city? It’s not such a stretch. “We are still a… Read more »