FedUp! Community Garden
An exciting new project is underway in Windsor, ON. FedUp is a community gardening network, which promotes sustainable food production. It aims to transform the current urban landscape into a greener, more livable, and democratically controlled space. So far, two backyards and a large field have been donated to FedUp, and participants have been building, weeding, and watering gardens there since early spring. Using organic and permaculture techniques, FedUp seeks to demonstrate that urban gardening that supplies local food needs is not only possible, but far more environmentally and socially desirable than the current globalized, agribusiness food production system.
The idea is to have free and accessible garden plots for any resident wishing to maintain one, and a community network which promotes skill sharing and ensures no food grown goes to waste. As industrial agriculture becomes increasingly dependent on fossil fuels, chemical pesticides, GMOs, herbicides and artificial fertilizers, and policy that prioritizes profit accumulation over feeding the world's population, it has become clear that a new system of food production is required.
By converting more urban space to gardens, not only can suburban areas converted back to forest, but cities become greener by changing impervious surfaces to vegetation. Also, localized gardening is primarily driven by human energy, not oil powered machines. Permaculture techniques, such as companion planting, allow greater cooperation between plants; such agricultural practices have proven, over generations of gardeners from all over the world, to produce more abundant, culturally appropriate, disease-resistant, and nutritious crops.
Click link below to visit Fedup web page.
http://web.resist.ca/-fedup/
An exciting new project is underway in Windsor, ON. FedUp is a community gardening network, which promotes sustainable food production. It aims to transform the current urban landscape into a greener, more livable, and democratically controlled space. So far, two backyards and a large field have been donated to FedUp, and participants have been building, weeding, and watering gardens there since early spring. Using organic and permaculture techniques, FedUp seeks to demonstrate that urban gardening that supplies local food needs is not only possible, but far more environmentally and socially desirable than the current globalized, agribusiness food production system.
The idea is to have free and accessible garden plots for any resident wishing to maintain one, and a community network which promotes skill sharing and ensures no food grown goes to waste. As industrial agriculture becomes increasingly dependent on fossil fuels, chemical pesticides, GMOs, herbicides and artificial fertilizers, and policy that prioritizes profit accumulation over feeding the world's population, it has become clear that a new system of food production is required.
By converting more urban space to gardens, not only can suburban areas converted back to forest, but cities become greener by changing impervious surfaces to vegetation. Also, localized gardening is primarily driven by human energy, not oil powered machines. Permaculture techniques, such as companion planting, allow greater cooperation between plants; such agricultural practices have proven, over generations of gardeners from all over the world, to produce more abundant, culturally appropriate, disease-resistant, and nutritious crops.
Click link below to visit Fedup web page.
http://web.resist.ca/-fedup/