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		<title>Cuba&#8217;s Urban Agrarians Flourish</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Gardens Abound In Cuba, Where 70% Of Vegetables And Herbs Are Local And Organic HAVANA, June 4, 2008 (CBS/ Reinaldo Gil) (CBS) This story was written by CBS News producer Portia Siegelbaum in Havana. &#8220;Buy local. Eat seasonal. Eat organic.&#8221; All now commonplace admonitions in the United States. But while none of these slogans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=283&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle, known as the emerald city to some, has urban agriculture popping up all over the place.  I&#8217;m actually going there in the fall to work with Seattle Youth Garden Works as one of their AmeriCorps garden coordinators.  I&#8217;m so excited!  I can&#8217;t wait to be part of this awesome community.  Here&#8217;s an article that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=279&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Tractor Farm: art from urban agrarians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  22 MAY 2008    about good farm movement (found on COMFOOD) I&#8217;m glad to find other people who are into art focused on food and gardening in cities.  This blog isn&#8217;t very big yet, but it will grow, I mean doesn&#8217;t everyone want to look at cool art with good food their belly?   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=276&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Seattle hospitals are full of sustainable, local food&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 29th 2008 CONTACT: Holly Freishtat, 360-391-2888, holly@cultivatehealth.com Seattle Hospitals Purchasing Local, Sustainable Food: National Report Outlines Leading Trends in Health Care Sector 127 Hospitals nationwide are buying healthier food to promote public health (5/29/08 – Seattle, WA)  For 127 hospitals across the United States, the words “hospital food” and “healthy communities, healthy environment” are one and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=273&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 15:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Kym Pokorny from her blog “Dig in with Kym”.   “If you look around and see all the flat roofs, you can start to imagine a food-sustainable city,” says Marc Boucher-Colbert, one of the partners who contracts with Rocket restaurant to design and maintain the garden. “We’ve taken away all this space, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=272&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 15:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world. You’d never know it if you saw what was ending up in your landfill. As it turns out, Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=271&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Lappé, Maverick Farms, and the next generation of farmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video from MSN about Maverick farms hosted by Anna Lappé of the Small Planet Institute   Maverick Farms is an educational non-profit farm dedicated to family farming as a community resource and reconnecting local food networks. Maverick Farms formed in spring 2004 to preserve a small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=270&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Southeast Regional Farm to School Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 17:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 17th &#8211; Asheville NC Sponsored by the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project and the Community Farm Alliance, Southeast Regional Lead Agencies for the National Farm to School Network     What is Growing Minds Farm to School Program?   As part of a national farm to school initiative, Growing Minds is the Appalachian Sustainable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=268&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban agriculture meets the Jetsons: Some wacky and some plausible ideas for the future of feeding cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 16:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some designs for crazy urban agriculture from the past, present, and future We always laugh at ideas from the past-   This page from the 1982 book, Our Future Needs (World of Tomorrow) by Neil Ardley,  describes a world in which we eat factory waste that has been processed into food by genetically modified bacteria. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=264&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Montréal Closes 167 Urban Garden Plots Due to Soil Contamination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Heimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just writing yesterday about soil contamination and possible problems with urban agriculture, and now here is a perfect example.  These plots were designated garden plots, and the contaminates were low in the soil.  I often imagine urban farmers in developing countries farming where ever there is free space- by the sides of roadways, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sidewalksprouts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3336443&amp;post=262&amp;subd=sidewalksprouts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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