Community Food Production with Miriam Volat
Miriam Volat, Permaculture Skills Center’s Farm School director, speaks to her work as a facilitator, educator, and healthy food system advocate.
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Seattle Community Farm: Growing Veggies for the Neighborhood
The veggies all go to people who have a hard time affording fresh vegetables.
After Years Without a Grocery Store, Greensboro Neighbors Are Building One Themselves—And They’ll Own It
For more than 15 years, there were many efforts to lure a new grocery store into the space. However, while the store would be profitable, it wouldn’t be profitable enough to satisfy the demands of the shareholder-based economy of a large corporation.
Monroe’s Sharing Garden — The Giving is Growing
During this five-year experiment in the giving economy, the garden has tripled in size. Sharegivers (volunteers) of all ages work in the gardens…No money is exchanged. Materials and labor, and even use of the property, are freely given and showing up in abundance.