Lisa Depiano’s recent post from the Grow Food Northampton listserv:
Check out our Natural Building demo and seed ball making! On hand will be a copy of the Feed Northampton Project: In a town whose prestige was built by artists, during the Northampton Sidewalk Sale’s ritual four days of ardent shopping in July, artists will be taking back some of the cultural space that they themselves created. In other words: Pulaski Park is ours (!), to habitate, to perform in, to make/sell work in, to make noise in — to connect the dots of Northampton’s economic development with the exodus of artists, non-profits, and other demographics from the city, or just to get a big fruity piece of the capitalist pie.
Feed Northampton: First Steps Toward a Local Food System is a food security plan prepared by graduate students at the Conway School of Landscape Design for a transition town community group in Northampton, Massachusetts. The project addresses the potential for food production within Northampton, and analyzes the patterns of open space and development in the city center and how different patterns may be conducive to different kinds of production. The student team determined an approximation of the broader foodshed from which Northampton residents draw their food (and an overview of the general kinds of foods being used) as well as the kinds of social and ecological systems that might be created (or already exist) to effectively support food production in the city.
This is a link to the free download of the project: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/feed-northampton-first-steps-toward-a-local-food-system/11715880?showPreview
And here is a link to my blog with more info about this weekend:
http://permacultureworkshop.blogspot.com/
Best,
Lisa
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