Wall Street Journal Video on Suburban Farming

[Larburlingame]

It is is an interesting video on suburban farming

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[seedspreader]

Very cool.

It would be great to see neighbors get behind it. The next greatest thing would be to see a community kitchen for preserving.

[clovis]

I take the WSJ, and read the article the other day.

Seems like the WSJ is running more and more articles about small farming and going green.

In the past week, they ran an article about a woman raising goats, and selling the hair to yarn people. Folks sign up and in advance pay on shares for the next season's shearing. Interesting idea and article.

Maybe this stuff is online at the WSJ website.

Clove

[Pelenaka]

Kudos that they were able to convince neighbor's to part with their lawns.
We haven't been so lucky in our attempts. Maybe with the current economic realities ...

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[Beef11]

Did that lady have a mustache? Very interesting. I have a rental house and if my renters wanted to farm it i would say go for it. I've been meaning to plant raspberry's there for a while.

[Janis Sauncy]

They really needed to accompany that video with: "Green Acres is the place to be, farm living is the life for me........"

Good for those "farmers." It must be a challenge, though, to get people to give up their lawns for someone else's benefit. They must get something out of it, besides not having to mow.

Janis

[veme]

Originally Posted by clovis

I take the WSJ, and read the article the other day.

Seems like the WSJ is running more and more articles about small farming and going green.

In the past week, they ran an article about a woman raising goats, and selling the hair to yarn people. Folks sign up and in advance pay on shares for the next season's shearing. Interesting idea and article.

Maybe this stuff is online at the WSJ website.

Clove

I've noticed the same thing & not just the WSJ.

[Wags]

Wasn't earth day this week? That might explain the upsurge in "green" stories in the press.

[clovis]

Originally Posted by Wags

Wasn't earth day this week? That might explain the upsurge in "green" stories in the press.

I normally would agree that Earth Day creates new stories in the press.

The WSJ seems to have been focusing more on enviromental topics for the last few months, if not longer.

A month or more ago, they had an entire section to enviro business. Very interesting! I am pleased to read that major business and institutions are now seeing enviro tools as a way to better their company, and eventually their bottom line.

I have hope that enviromentally sound business practices are taking hold, and will be with us as the new way to do business.

Clove