tirsdag 3. august 2010

URBAN FARMERS SAN DIEGO

(from the san diego news network.com)

"About a year ago, Karon Klipple, a mathematics professor at San Diego City College, took a long, hard look at the campus lawn.
With all the talk about global warming, the benefits of eating local and organic food, not to mention San Diego’s drought worries, it seemed the land and resources might be put to better use. So Klipple, who is chair of City College’s Environmental Stewardship Committee, founded Seeds at City, a thriving sub-acre farm smack dab on the downtown campus.
“Industrial agriculture isn’t going to support us indefinitely because it’s unsustainable,” she said while walking in between rows of oak leaf lettuce and Chioggia beets on a cool Tuesday morning. “There’s no way we can continue to use more resources to create fewer.”


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