ConnectedRoots

Connected Roots is a project that aims to create a trading connection between communities and to allow those who don't grow to learn how and to put a meal on the table for less.

Connected Roots is about growing locally and sharing what you don't want/need.

We want to make food social, cheap and fresh,
and we want you there with us.

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May 28th, 2012
reachforviolet: Urban garden happy

reachforviolet:

Urban garden happy

reachforviolet: Urban garden happy

reachforviolet:

Urban garden happy

May 26th, 2012
How do you feed a city? It’s one of the great questions of our time, yet one that is rarely asked. We take it for granted that, if we walk into a restaurant or supermarket, food will be there, having arrived magically from somewhere else. But when you consider that in a city the size of London enough food for 30 million meals per day must be produced, transported, bought and sold, cooked, eaten, and disposed of — and that something similar must happen every day for every city on Earth — it is a miracle that we get fed at all. (via Sitopia | design mind)

How do you feed a city? It’s one of the great questions of our time, yet one that is rarely asked. We take it for granted that, if we walk into a restaurant or supermarket, food will be there, having arrived magically from somewhere else. But when you consider that in a city the size of London enough food for 30 million meals per day must be produced, transported, bought and sold, cooked, eaten, and disposed of — and that something similar must happen every day for every city on Earth — it is a miracle that we get fed at all.

(via Sitopia | design mind)

May 25th, 2012
so-aware: From Rooftops and Abandoned Lots, an Urban Harvest NPR’s Science Friday Covers Urban Agriculture From rooftop apiaries in Paris to a vegetable-and-chicken farm in Philadelphia, agriculture has come to the city. This hour, urban farmer Mary Seton Corboy and food writer Jennifer Cockrall-King talk about the future of food. And how about some dandelion flower jelly? Tama Matsuoka Wong, forager for Restaurant Daniel in New York City, talks about the joys of eating garden weeds.

so-aware:

From Rooftops and Abandoned Lots, an Urban Harvest

NPR’s Science Friday Covers Urban Agriculture

From rooftop apiaries in Paris to a vegetable-and-chicken farm in Philadelphia, agriculture has come to the city. This hour, urban farmer Mary Seton Corboy and food writer Jennifer Cockrall-King talk about the future of food. And how about some dandelion flower jelly? Tama Matsuoka Wong, forager for Restaurant Daniel in New York City, talks about the joys of eating garden weeds.

May 23rd, 2012

knowurbanis:

URBAN AGRICULTURE // POULTRY FARMING 

When people start thinking about growing some of their own vegetables at home, the task can seem simple at first, I mean how hard can it be to put a plant in the ground, water it and then enjoy the bountiful harvest of a fully operational farm? Yeah, not so much, although a wonderful dream, to get the bountiful harvest of your dreams takes a lot of space, work and time! With that said there are millions of small tricks that can make growing vegetables a little easier. One way is to use kitchen scraps to grow plants! Yes a lot of foods you disregard as not edible and/or trash can in fact grow into a plant and give you more fruits and vegetables! It is an alternative way of growing a vegetable garden then growing from seed or buying a bunch of plants. (via Growing Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps!)

When people start thinking about growing some of their own vegetables at home, the task can seem simple at first, I mean how hard can it be to put a plant in the ground, water it and then enjoy the bountiful harvest of a fully operational farm? Yeah, not so much, although a wonderful dream, to get the bountiful harvest of your dreams takes a lot of space, work and time! With that said there are millions of small tricks that can make growing vegetables a little easier. One way is to use kitchen scraps to grow plants! Yes a lot of foods you disregard as not edible and/or trash can in fact grow into a plant and give you more fruits and vegetables! It is an alternative way of growing a vegetable garden then growing from seed or buying a bunch of plants.

(via Growing Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps!)

lhiboubou: Rainbow chard (in the foreground) surrounded by sheep wool pellets to keep the slugs off. These Slug pellets are a marvel! :  http://www.sluggone.com/how-to-use Buy them here though…: http://amzn.to/JnIwr9

lhiboubou:

Rainbow chard (in the foreground) surrounded by sheep wool pellets to keep the slugs off.

These Slug pellets are a marvel! : 

http://www.sluggone.com/how-to-use
Buy them here though…: http://amzn.to/JnIwr9
May 10th, 2012

Student of the City: The Importance of Urban Agriculture

study-the-city:

Stones Throw Urban Farm, Minneapolis

My first urban garden was a 5x3 foot weed pit behind my rented duplex. With my landlady’s permission, I dug out the weeds and threw the coffee grounds from my french press and some organic compost into the dirt. My mission was simple: salsa ingredients, hopefully enough for a few jars….

May 8th, 2012

Urban Agriculture adopted by 800m+ worldwide

In but a few years it’s going to be essential for urban dwellers to grow their own food, either on their roof tops or in community gardens and farms around the city in which they live. Here is a rather straight forward (if not a little mundane) video from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Enjoy.

May 7th, 2012

urbangardenallotment:

We got a lot of work done today, as well as digging over a whole lot more we also moved the strawberries, made the spinach bed and planted it, planted the carrots and got the sticks up in preperation for the beans.  We also managed to squeeze another 16 potatoes in - the mystry veggie box kind!  The Desiree and Cara should hopefully be ready to go in next week - its late but at least we will be harvesting later!  The rhubarb is starting to look stronger and the bed has been prepared and covered for the sweet potatoes…we’re slowly getting there….