Growing (a little) Food in the City

[Lambert suggested I cross post something from our blog Green Roof Growers. An earlier version of this post can be found here. What follows is New and much Improved.] Most (All?) of you who read this understand the ways that food and politics are connected. Energy Policy, global warming, peak oil, and subsidized agribusiness, to name a few. If you’re trying to change things, it’s hard to know where to begin. Michael Pollan thinks that growing some of your own food is the place to start. Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do—to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind. My friends and I are showing city residents... [read full story]