Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Creativity of Urban Agriculture


Urban Agriculture holds the potential to un-leash a whole host of creative projects that connect an inherent human desire to connect with the land, a need to eat fresh food and the need to heal urban communities of concrete blight and human malnuitrition. Please enjoy the following photos as the exemplify the potential of Urban Agricutlure.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Wind Projects at Iowa Schools


Great article on winder turbine construction in the following Iowa schools :
Spirit Lake, Forest City,
Eldora-New Providence School, Sentral School in Fenton, Nevada High School in Story County , Clay Central in Royal, Akron-Westfield, Clarion-Goldfield in Wright County.

http://www.awea.org/windletter/wl_03sept.html

Sustinable Living Arts School--Edible Landscaping--Vancouver

http://www.ediblelandscapes.ca/SLA_School.html

You will learn skills you can put to immediate use:
  • winter gardening
  • herbal medicines
  • long term storage of foods
  • seed saving
  • water management
  • plant propagation
  • bee keeping
  • fowl rearing
  • woodlot management
  • garden planning
  • mushroom cultivation
    and more!