Antique Map of Barth, Germany, 1598
Commentary By Braun: “Barth has a large market at which one can buy all the necessities
of daily life at a fair price, thanks to its fertile land and its favourable location
by the sea. For since there are fertile soils not only all around the city but in
the whole duchy, it has an abundance of salt water and other fish, game, cattle,
grain, butter, honey, wax and other such things. The wealth of the citizens comes
from livestock farming and from trade, which they conduct very profitably with the
kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and other distant lands far across the ocean. They brew
a tasty beer, which they also trade in.”
High-end consumers taking up urban farming
Sam Roddick, co-founder of London boutique Coco de Mer and daughter of Body Shop
founder Anita Roddick, is also passionate about the preservation of the honey bee.
She is part of a new campaign entitled “Bee Lovely,” run by natural-remedy store
Neal’s Yard, which aims to help address the problems facing bees and educate those
who want to keep them. “I went to the Natural Beekeeping Trust course a few years
ago and, soon after, started transforming my garden,” Ms. Roddick says. She has
planted what she calls a “bee buffet” in her London garden, including lavender,
rosemary, thyme and hawthorne, and plans to start keeping bees there soon.
TEDxManhattan - Dr Melony Samuels - Campaigning Against Hunger with urban farms
Dr. Melony Samuels is the Founder and Director of the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against
Hunger. She not only helps provide food to low-income families in Brooklyn, she’s
started an urban farm to help residents get the healthiest, freshest food possible.
Allotments Lead to “Staggering” 51% Fall in Anti-social Behaviour
In 2009, the early days of Landshare, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall visited a community
allotment for local residents in Leigh, Greater Manchester, as part of a River Cottage
programme. Two years on, the allotments are thriving, and local police are amazed
to find that anti-social behaviour has fallen by over 50% in the area.
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture