Food Security

Here's a fun little animation video about food security in Japan, found Treehugger. "While the stats are specific to Japan, the concepts are universal."

Victory Gardens

In this op-ed article in the New York Times, Ms. Arieff talks about various land reclamation projects that use new innovative spaces for growing food. These projects are popping up all over cities, including St. Louis. For example, on my first expedition to the botanical gardens, I discovered that there is a entire section devoted to food crops. Funny that we have to visit the botanical gardens to know what plants look like before they reach our table. I'm curious where these crops will end up when they are ready to be used.

Amy Franchesni started a Victory Garden project in San Francisco (mentioned in the article) part of her art work was designing fun tools for gardening such as this awesome bike.


Franchesni convinced San Francisco City Hall to transform their lawn into a giant garden. Most of the food will be "donated to those with limited access to healthy, organic produce through a partnership with local food banks and meal programs."

People's Grocery

Two very inspiring projects called the People's Grocery in Brooklyn and The Greenhouse Project in Johannesburg. They address how to make a community in need more self-sustainable by creating jobs, reusing waste, and producing food within the community.