Links to the Urban Agriculture Community:

There are a lot of other things—from inspired strokes of genius to labours of a lifetime—going on in the urban agricultural scene, as well as in the wider world of sustainable agriculture and local foods.  Here are some of the ones we like to spend our time with and ones that you might find useful ...


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Urban Agriculture:

SPIN Farming
http://www.spinfarming.com/

City Farmer News
http://www.cityfarmer.info/
 
Calgary Horticultural Society
http://www.calhort.org/home/default.aspx

Calgary Urban Agriculture
http://calgaryurbanagriculture.blogspot.com/

Growing Power (Milwaukee)
http://www.growingpower.org/
 
Victory Gardens: Garden Warriors of 1942 (article)
http://www.cityfarmer.org/victgarA57.html

Local Food Calgary:

Calgary Food Policy Council http://www.calgaryfoodpolicycouncil.ca/

Slow Food Calgary
http://slowfoodcalgary.ca/ 

REAP (Respect for the Earth and All People) Calgary
http://www.reapcalgary.com/

Alberta Farmers' Market Association
http://www.albertamarkets.com/ 






Permaculture:

A.B.C Apiaries and Bees for Communities—Urban Beekeeping
http://www.backyardbees.ca/

Big Sky Permaculture (Calgary)
http://www.bigskypermaculture.ca/

Interview with Bill Mollison, one of the early developers of Permaculture
http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/mollison.html 

 Introduction to Permaculture, Bill Mollison
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/PDC_ALL.pdf

Snail on Fork photo credit: Simon Howden, http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=404