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Food Supply Anxiety Brings Back Victory Gardens:
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On Wednesday, there were about six inches of snow on the ground outside Albany, where Leah Penniman works as the farm manager of Soul Fire Farm, but next week, she and her team will build a vegetable garden for a refugee family in nearby Troy, N.Y.
Ms. Penniman, the author of “Farming While Black,” stressed that provision gardening wasn’t new, not even a century ago when the federal government partnered with private organizations and grass-roots efforts to promote gardens in pamphlets, posters and short films.
“What we stand for now is what our elders and ancestors have always stood for,” Ms. Penniman said. “To free ourselves, we must feed ourselves.”
So, of course, this…
Pushing the envelope: An onslaught of orders engulfs seed companies amid coronavirus fears
I’ve never seen seed racks empty as quickly as this year. The line that really impressed me: “Customers are gravitating to vegetables high in nutrients such as kale, spinach and other quick-to-grow leafy greens. “Spinach is off the charts,” said Jo-Anne van den Berg-Ohms of Kitchen Garden Seeds in Bantam, Connecticut.”
Worth mentioning, Leah Penniman wrote Farming While Black, and via Soul Fire’s Instagram is doing livestreamed seminars on how to garden. Ask A Sista Farmer, on Fridays at 4– info in this Instagram post including links to the Facebook livestream. There are also many more resources; Soul Fire is a teaching farm, and full of knowledge-sharing.
Food Supply Anxiety Brings Back Victory Gardens:
meadowslark:
solarpunkwitchcraft:
On Wednesday, there were about six inches of snow on the ground outside Albany, where Leah Penniman works as the farm manager of Soul Fire Farm, but next week, she and her team will build a vegetable garden for a refugee family in nearby Troy, N.Y.
Ms. Penniman, the author of “Farming While Black,” stressed that provision gardening wasn’t new, not even a century ago when the federal government partnered with private organizations and grass-roots efforts to promote gardens in pamphlets, posters and short films.
“What we stand for now is what our elders and ancestors have always stood for,” Ms. Penniman said. “To free ourselves, we must feed ourselves.”
So, of course, this…
Pushing the envelope: An onslaught of orders engulfs seed companies amid coronavirus fears
I’ve never seen seed racks empty as quickly as this year. The line that really impressed me: “Customers are gravitating to vegetables high in nutrients such as kale, spinach and other quick-to-grow leafy greens. “Spinach is off the charts,” said Jo-Anne van den Berg-Ohms of Kitchen Garden Seeds in Bantam, Connecticut.”
Worth mentioning, Leah Penniman wrote Farming While Black, and via Soul Fire’s Instagram is doing livestreamed seminars on how to garden. Ask A Sista Farmer, on Fridays at 4– info in this Instagram post including links to the Facebook livestream. There are also many more resources; Soul Fire is a teaching farm, and full of knowledge-sharing.
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Date: 2020-04-09 03:44 pm (UTC)