All Blog Posts Tagged 'food' (5)

I and a bunch of other TM'ers have been busy planning an event for November 6th to kick off a planting and educational campaign to grow more fruit and nut trees in Milwaukee. We are doing this for one reason Fruit and nut trees address a huge host of issues. Fruit and nut trees provide food like

a garden but with more results in a smaller space with less effort in

the end. Edible trees also have all the benefits that all trees have. They

slow water with their canopy and their… Continue

We have less than a week until we put our order into the Arbor day 

for hazel nuts, please let us know if you are going to help 

enlarge the nut aspect of our edible food forest!  



Why you may ask should I order and plant hazelnuts shrubs? Well....

Our vegetable gardens are an important part of a our growing urban 

agriculture movement, and represent an important part of our diets.

However, tomatoes and green peppers alone are not going to feed…

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A recent episode of NPR’s “Here and Now” featured author Ben Hewitt, discussing his recently published The Town Food Saved.



After a vivid and thoughtful discussion of the organic farming practices and the positive effects of a strong local economy that has in many ways rejuvenated the town of Hardwick, Vermont, the host, Robin Young, asked a pricelessly dense question: “but can sustainable farming really feed us all?” The thoughtless presumption of the question is that unsustainable… Continue

Powerdown Week, Ultimate Food Challenge Conclusion.



I’m just a simple farmer from Shorewood who got mixed up with a bunch of Riverwest radicals. They made me think a lot about the future of the world and the way we use energy. Food, they taught me, is embedded with fossil fuels in its production, so I try to eat stuff I grow without fossil fuels (mainly).



Last week I tried to eat only things I grew, supplemented by a few staples procured in town at the General Store (damn… Continue

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Powering down is time consuming. I am addicted to speed, to getting lots of stuff done quickly. These are expectations I’ll need to address. I had hoped to leave work at 5:30, stop at Concordia Gardens, pick some veggies, get home, cook my beans for an hour, make a salad, eat, shower, and ride my bike to Tom and Miles’ lecture.



Couldn’t be done. I cut out the cooking part, eating some lettuce, a few carrots, and a giant radish. I did cook my beans, which I ate cold… Continue