Mountain Biking: Rubber side down- Time for a TurnaroundWell, my friends, things are finally looking up, and good timing, too, since I’m sure you’re all sick of me bitching. Recent bike build, including wheels… fun! In what feels like a fairly short time, I’ve come from sitting around … Continue reading → […]
- This Raised My PulseHey, baby… wanna ride? I may be injured, but I’m not dead yet. I can still have racy thoughts. Here’s more info. In other news, UBI was an awesome success! I had a blast. I highly recommend it. Overhaul day…. … Continue reading → […]
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The urban farming challenge — why New York can’t be all that green
There are plenty of reasons why I love urban culture. For one, I can close my eyes and do the same thing that urban planners do — imagine a really wonderfully efficient world in which I live, work and play within about a two- or three-mile radius. In fact, this is mostly accurate in my own life right now, but I’m guilty of things (like occasional travel by air) that negate the heck out of that.
There’s also the idea of urban farming. I love green roofs. I love the perseverance of people doing things like cultivating potatoes on their porches or bees in Brooklyn. I love it.
But I have a hard time when someone goes out of their way to write a whole book and make the claim that the greenest place you can live is a city like New York. Read more
How to be a farmer, step one: suck it up
Photo by Cliff Grassmick. Jack Matthews, right, and Eva Teague harvest cucumbers for the Wednesday Farmers' Market in Boulder. Cure Organic Farms of Boulder offers internships to students interested in learning about farming. For a video, go to www.dailycamera.com.
Thanks to Michelle Obama (and, you know, generations of urban gardeners that predate her), the idea of a kitchen garden is commonplace once more.
But for some people, that’s not enough — not close enough to the earth and the food we all eat.
For these people, there are farm internships:
“Michael Pollan isn’t there at 5:30 a.m. making your coffee and helping you bunch carrots,” he says.
The Cures have had interns who couldn’t take the grueling work.
“July is the decider month,” he says. “Anne and I say, ‘If they make it through July, they’re going to be a farmer.”
The internships range in time and compensation (often the compensation is room and board and extra veggies), and you can find out a ton more in Camera food editor Cindy Sutter’s story, “So you want to work on a farm….“
