Victory Gardening
Our house recently started to reap the benefits of the long North Carolina growing season and we have been eating greens and radishes grown in our front yard for the past week. Our landlord recently gave us permission to convert th front yard of the townhouse next door into a vegetable and herb garden as well and soon I hope our whole townhouse development is filled with little patches of garden in the front yards of the houses, supplementing the farmers market and coop and transforming our urban neighborhood into a site of food production and making it somewhat more sustainable and delicious. I like to call our garden a victory garden, as it is a small victory to eat food from your own garden in the middle of a city in November.
posted by Lindsey at
6:51 PM
1 Comments:
Lindsay, I'm so jealous of your victory garden! It's so rewarding to eat food you have grown. I'm excited that Cedar Court, my apt. complex, has a community garden for residents to share (of course, it's sleeping til spring...).
Speaking of urban agriculture and livability, have you ben following the recent local news on back yard chickens? It's a bit old by now, but worth mentioning on the Weiss blog:
http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/10/11/City/Chickens.Now.Legal.In.Chapel.Hill-3025768.shtml
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A163261
Peace,
Audrey
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