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Urbane fruits and veggies

A couple of people I know (including my wife, supreme chef that she is) are reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver's account of her family's "vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it." One of the things that Kingsolver is keen to point out is that all the good intentions around organic food fall woefully short (as does the taste) when food (organics included) is grown thousands of miles from where it's eaten. It takes a lot of energy to ship that organic potato from Peru; you might do better to eat a regular version from close by.

So what if you don't have a local farmer's market around? This blog is ever on the lookout for ways that citizens can take action. To that end, Allison Arieff writes in the New York Times about her experience taking action to "Grow Your Own." The pictures above are her before and after attempt at urban agriculture, or, in the vernacular of such trends, "the edible landscape."

Posted by Josh Weissburg on July 31, 2008 4:34 PM |

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