Playlist: Pedal Patch Community
Compiled By: Jason Boarde
The official Pedal Patch Community playlist, covering: urban agriculture, farming, CSAs, food policy, nutrition, rooftop farming and more...
Garden Allotments: A London Kitchen Vision
From The Kitchen Sisters | Part of the Hidden Kitchens series | 06:49
Hidden Kitchens travels to London to explore the old and endangered tradition of Allotments, urban communal garden plots wedged in between buildings, planted in abandoned open spaces, carved into hillsides, some bequeathed to the working classes on protected land, and scattered across the city by the hundreds.
London's "allotment" gardens are an unusual and vibrant system of community gardens across the entire city. Tended by immigrants, retirees, chefs and fans of fresh food, the allotments make up a kitchen community like no other.
Essay: The Community Garden Waiting List
From Andi McDaniel | 03:58
Funny, quirky essay about waiting for a garden plot in Berkeley, CA
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A first-person essay about the surprisingly maddening process of trying to secure a garden plot in Berkeley, CA: home of the year-long summer and birthplace of the local food movement. What's a garden-lover to do when she can't afford an apartment with green space, and it can take 2 YEARS to get a community garden plot here? As the author conclude, one could do a lot of things in that amount of time...