Sunday, October 16, 2022

City Agriculture - October 16, 2022

 Salmon Wars:  The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fishy Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, "a critical look at the commercial salmon farming industry which now provides 90 percent of the salmon consumed by North Americans”

book:  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250800305/salmonwars
CSPAN interview:  https://www.c-span.org/video/?522142-1/qa-douglas-frantz-catherine-collins-commercial-salmon-farming

A tropical garden inside Manaus, Brazil Innovation House provides passive cooling 
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/9/16/laurent-troost-revives-an-abandoned-structure-in-manaus-by-inserting-a-tropical-garden-inside

It’s Time to Make Cities More Rural
https://www.wired.com/story/why-its-time-to-make-cities-more-rural/
hat tip:  Gil Friend

NION - sustainable office building in Frankfurt am Main with gardens inside and out
https://www.unstudio.com/en/page/16495/nion
https://inhabitat.com/nion-to-be-one-of-frankfurts-most-sustainable-office-spaces/

Factory in Vietnam with walls of live plants
https://g8a-architects.com/project/jakob-factory/
https://inhabitat.com/the-jakob-factory-in-vietnam-builds-walls-out-of-live-plants/

Mary Mattingly, environmental artist working on urban food systems, among other things
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/t-magazine/mary-mattingly-art-climate.html

Edible Cities - turning parks into orchards and gardens where anyone can pick for free
https://wapo.st/3Mkk8tB (not sure this will get you past the paywall but it’s worth a shot)

Here are some of the resources mentioned in the WashPost article:
Edible Town, Andernach, Germany - https://www.andernach-tourismus.de/en/andernach/the-edible-town
Edible Cities Network - https://www.edicitnet.com
Endless Orchard - public access fruit trees around the world - https://endlessorchard.com/map/
Urban Food Forest, Atlanta, GA - https://www.aglanta.org/urban-food-forest-at-browns-mill-1/
Food Forests, Philadelphia, PA - https://www.phillyorchards.org/2020/06/10/philadelphias-food-forests/
Beacon Food Forest, Seattle, WA - https://beaconfoodforest.org
George Washington Carver Edible Park, Asheville, NC - https://www.facebook.com/Dr-George-Washington-Carver-Edible-Park-620672487948577
Bloomington, Ind Community Orchard - https://bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/
Hyattsville, MD Food Forests - https://www.hyattsville.org/902/Food-Forests

Community orchards in the UK help preserve apples
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63160292

This could be called planting for gleaning:
Boston Area Gleaners
https://www.bostonareagleaners.org
Agnès Varda’s two documentaries on gleaning:
The Gleaners and I
https://www.criterion.com/films/30368-the-gleaners-and-i
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
https://www.criterion.com/films/30564-the-gleaners-and-i-two-years-later

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