Comments for Urban Farm Hub http://www.urbanfarmhub.org Puget Sound's Urban Farming Resource Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Flax by Kate Kurtz http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2012/01/flax/comment-page-1/#comment-15109 Kate Kurtz Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:31:40 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=10276#comment-15109 Wow! This is so cool. I had no idea what the flax plant even looked like. Now I'm inspired to try growing some this year. Thanks for another great post. Kate Wow! This is so cool. I had no idea what the flax plant even looked like. Now I’m inspired to try growing some this year.
Thanks for another great post.
Kate

]]> Comment on What Does it Mean to be Queer in the World of Urban Farming? by Natalie Boustead http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-queer-in-the-world-of-urban-farming/comment-page-1/#comment-15057 Natalie Boustead Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:25:40 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=1504#comment-15057 Hi there! I came accross your blog while doing a bit of research on queer urban farming, and really liked the article and also the question posed in response to how "queer" farming is a different form of radicalization than for cis gendered farmers. I have recently published an article about being a queer urban farmer in the November 2011 issue of Curve magazine. In this article, I talked about the modern realities of queers finding more community in city centres than in rural areas. This is due to a lot of different reasons, but has created a diasporic culture for many queers in the city, who have left their rural upbringings to try and find their place in urban centres where they can find community and acceptance not offered in their small towns. Many of these people (including myself), I would argue, perhaps do not even desire to live in an urban centre, but are nearly forcibly pushed out of small rural communities due to lack of support and queer-positive community. Therefore, I see urban farming as an interim resolution to the disconnect from the small-town life that some of us desire, which includes a focus on farming, a connection to the land, and a slower-paced lifestyle not often offered in the city. By creating farming and gardening spaces in an urban setting, queers are not just resisting the patriarchal systems which have denied us knowledge and access to the basic fundamentals of life, Food, but also we as queers are attempting to find a way to reclaim a more rurally-oriented lifestyle, while still being surrounded by the community offered to us in city centres. I would like to see more queer communities popping up outside of urban spaces, and they are, but it is a slow process, and often more isolated than connected to the surrounding community. For now urban farming provides a great balance for queers looking to balance between two worlds. Hi there! I came accross your blog while doing a bit of research on queer urban farming, and really liked the article and also the question posed in response to how “queer” farming is a different form of radicalization than for cis gendered farmers. I have recently published an article about being a queer urban farmer in the November 2011 issue of Curve magazine. In this article, I talked about the modern realities of queers finding more community in city centres than in rural areas. This is due to a lot of different reasons, but has created a diasporic culture for many queers in the city, who have left their rural upbringings to try and find their place in urban centres where they can find community and acceptance not offered in their small towns. Many of these people (including myself), I would argue, perhaps do not even desire to live in an urban centre, but are nearly forcibly pushed out of small rural communities due to lack of support and queer-positive community. Therefore, I see urban farming as an interim resolution to the disconnect from the small-town life that some of us desire, which includes a focus on farming, a connection to the land, and a slower-paced lifestyle not often offered in the city.

By creating farming and gardening spaces in an urban setting, queers are not just resisting the patriarchal systems which have denied us knowledge and access to the basic fundamentals of life, Food, but also we as queers are attempting to find a way to reclaim a more rurally-oriented lifestyle, while still being surrounded by the community offered to us in city centres. I would like to see more queer communities popping up outside of urban spaces, and they are, but it is a slow process, and often more isolated than connected to the surrounding community. For now urban farming provides a great balance for queers looking to balance between two worlds.

]]> Comment on Map On! by City Fruit » Mapping Urban Ag http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/02/map-on/comment-page-1/#comment-15041 City Fruit » Mapping Urban Ag Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:03:59 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=8784#comment-15041 [...] View the full post here.  Way to go Elyse! [...] [...] View the full post here.  Way to go Elyse! [...]

]]> Comment on Do Japanese Apple Bags Prevent Pests? by Melany Vorass http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/10/do-japanese-apple-bags-prevent-pests/comment-page-1/#comment-14784 Melany Vorass Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:13:46 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=10175#comment-14784 I mean "sought" !! I mean “sought” !!

]]> Comment on Do Japanese Apple Bags Prevent Pests? by Melany Vorass http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/10/do-japanese-apple-bags-prevent-pests/comment-page-1/#comment-14783 Melany Vorass Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:11:53 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=10175#comment-14783 I picked apples from a neighbor's tree this year. She'd used nylon booties on about a third of her tree. Sadly, the apples she saught to protect did not fully ripen. Two thirds of her tree bore beautiful, red, flawless apples while the "protected" ones looked a good month behind in size and color. I picked apples from a neighbor’s tree this year. She’d used nylon booties on about a third of her tree. Sadly, the apples she saught to protect did not fully ripen. Two thirds of her tree bore beautiful, red, flawless apples while the “protected” ones looked a good month behind in size and color.

]]> Comment on Fun with Seattle Farm Co-op! by Creagh Miller http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/10/fun-with-seattle-farm-co-op/comment-page-1/#comment-13992 Creagh Miller Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:43:04 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=10209#comment-13992 So glad to see a post about this event. Backyard Barter is pleased to be organizing the barter portion of this event. We will be launching our website at the event as well! Backyard Barter is a community project to connect people to barter homegrown and homemade food and all the related skills and services. Come check us out, it will be lots of fun! So glad to see a post about this event. Backyard Barter is pleased to be organizing the barter portion of this event. We will be launching our website at the event as well! Backyard Barter is a community project to connect people to barter homegrown and homemade food and all the related skills and services. Come check us out, it will be lots of fun!

]]> Comment on Do Japanese Apple Bags Prevent Pests? by K Dennis http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/10/do-japanese-apple-bags-prevent-pests/comment-page-1/#comment-13888 K Dennis Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:13:37 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=10175#comment-13888 I used both plastic ziploc bags (which looked very strange on the tree) and nylon footies (which I have used in the past). The ziploc apples are beautifully colored and free of any pests, while of course the footie ones have some coddling moth. And this year the squirrels or some other critter are eating them right through the nylon footies! Even though there are plenty of unbagged ones. Hmmm. I will probably go with a combo again next year and put more of the ziploc baggies on the far side of the tree where I don't have to see them. I used both plastic ziploc bags (which looked very strange on the tree) and nylon footies (which I have used in the past). The ziploc apples are beautifully colored and free of any pests, while of course the footie ones have some coddling moth. And this year the squirrels or some other critter are eating them right through the nylon footies! Even though there are plenty of unbagged ones. Hmmm. I will probably go with a combo again next year and put more of the ziploc baggies on the far side of the tree where I don’t have to see them.

]]> Comment on Will Allen, WalMart, Winter, What Next? by HopefullySoon http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/10/will-allen-walmart-winter-what-next/comment-page-1/#comment-13735 HopefullySoon Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:57:40 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=10170#comment-13735 This is a great post! Well said. The year of Urban Farming may be technically over in Seattle, but the ideas it helped spawn need to take shape soon. If this is a global corporation making a move, what will it take for our local/global corporations to move, not posture, but really Do Something? Starbucks? Amazon? Microsoft? What will it take us, the 'other peoples', to move and really Do Something? This is a great post! Well said.
The year of Urban Farming may be technically over in Seattle, but the ideas it helped spawn need to take shape soon.
If this is a global corporation making a move, what will it take for our local/global corporations to move, not posture, but really Do Something? Starbucks? Amazon? Microsoft?
What will it take us, the ‘other peoples’, to move and really Do Something?

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]]> Comment on Will Allen, WalMart, Winter, What Next? by Galvin Proctor http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/10/will-allen-walmart-winter-what-next/comment-page-1/#comment-13698 Galvin Proctor Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:29:59 +0000 http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/?p=10170#comment-13698 This article is bringing some things to light for me. I don't agree with everything he said, some of it is right on. I am going out an do something tomorrow so I don't end up on the bad end of the stick. Thanks for having a black guy talk about this stuff. This article is bringing some things to light for me. I don’t agree with everything he said, some of it is right on. I am going out an do something tomorrow so I don’t end up on the bad end of the stick. Thanks for having a black guy talk about this stuff.

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