All Blog Posts Tagged 'organic_farming' (4)

Social sustainability must include rehabilitation and restoration of marginalized and broken populations such as the homeless, substance abusers and the incarcerated. There are enough successful working models to show how this can be better done. Growing food and flowers seems to have a therapeutic effect on troubled minds, much in the way that working with animals, especially horses, seems to have on autistic kids. I'd love to see these ideas carried out at Hill East, where the DC jail… Continue

TheWhoFarm (aka The White House Organic Farm Project) is a non-partisan, petition-based initiative to respectfully request that our 44th President oversee the planting of an organic farm on the grounds of The White House, our nation’s First Home, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC.



Whoever sits in the White House, we will still be faced with rising food costs and scarcity as a result of peak oil, as well as the health risks… Continue

Nov 1, 8:50 PM EDT



Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money



By PHUONG LE

Associated Press Writer

LITTLEROCK, Wash. (AP) -- Of all the things convicted murderer Robert Knowles has been called during his 13 years behind bars, recycler hasn't been one of them.



But there he was one morning, pitchfork in hand, composting food scraps from the main chow line and coffee grounds from prison headquarters -… Continue

By MARIAN BURROS

Published: October 7, 2008

COLLABORATORS - Pete Johnson and other farmers in northeast Vermont support one another’s efforts to stay viable.



HARDWICK, Vt.

THIS town’s granite companies shut down years ago and even the rowdy bars and porno theater that once… Continue