Re: Sustainable Urban Food Systems

["Robert Waldrop" <rmwj@soonernet.com>]

The urban farmer site -- http://www.urbanfarmer.com has
a lot of info,  Also Urban Agriculture notes
http://www.cityfarmer.org/  .  My website "All links"
page -- http://bettertimesinfo.org/alllinks.htm has
numerous urban agriculture links, including several
pages from the city farmer site.

Robert Waldrop, Oklahoma City

-----Original Message-----
From: John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>
>>      Does anybody have some good leads for
national/international
>> projects of urban agriculture and sustainable urban
food systems?
>>       ...surveying good
>> examples of sustainable urban food systems
>
>If you're interested in offering historical
perspective in your paper
>(or elsewhere), urban food systems were not at all
uncommon until
>industrialization shifted perceived land use values
towards factories
>and warehouses and away from urban gardening.  Paris
in Monet's time
>apparently fed most of its population from urban
gardens, orchards,
>etc.  Some citations for this sort of info shouldn't
be hard to find
>with a bit of research.
>