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2012 Farm Bill Conversation: Urban Agriculture

While export agriculture might indeed help some corporations, it is unlikely to resolve issues directly affecting the public. One thing that would however, is urban agriculture. While not a panacea, urban agriculture can allay many of the concerns mentioned by the president, and it can do so in several critical ways.

March 7, 2011 · admin · No Comments
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Time to Start

I know it looks nasty out there but now is the time to start planting. Don’t worry if you don’t know quite what you want in your garden yet. Here are some simple steps I recommend: 1) Write down what you want to grow – There are a lot of reasons to choose to grow [...]

February 24, 2011 · admin · No Comments
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Portland Orchard Work Day

If you are interested in starting a garden we are taking down names until our first volunteer meeting March 5th. Check out our Start a Garden page for more details. Otherwise, if you have some time you would like to give to the community please consider our Garden Liaison program. You don’t have to know anything about agriculture to be a part of the program, because we’ll be beside you the whole way.

February 21, 2011 · admin · No Comments
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Our Newsletter

We have had some issues with our website as of late and in the process of fixing it have lost all our subscribers to our newsletter. So, if you have signed up before, please do so again and if you haven’t then now is a good time to do it. All the best

October 6, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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Help Please – a Request

I got a call today from a good friend and partner of Louisville Grows, Sarah Wolff. Sarah organizes the volunteers for the Olmsted Conservancy, which takes care of the parks in Louisville, and it seems they are in a bit of a pickle; a good pickle, but a pickle nonetheless. The Conservancy has hundreds, and [...]

April 7, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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We are ligit!

We have been incorporated by the state of Kentucky and the Kentucky Resource Council has agreed to be our financial umbrella until we get our 501(c)3 status. You know what that means – we can officially do business, apply for grants and take donations. Bring it on, we’re ready.

September 11, 2009 · admin · No Comments
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Our First Days

Upon moving back home after graduation I found myself wanting to be involved with community development but more specifically sustainable agriculture.  As I got to know the local CSAs and planned our first guerrilla gardening event I noticed that there really wasn’t an organization that concentrated on coordinating resources for local gardening activists.  Hence the [...]

July 9, 2009 · admin · No Comments
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