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livetrii on October 21, 2005 - 1:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Do you know the group More Gardens! in the South Bronx? They're excellent, have been fighting for community gardens for years, & Aresh from MG! may have ideas about or know people from the Upper East Side...

In general, I think the implications of Peak Oil for food security are well-understood yet much-neglected by many Peakniks, at the main The Oil Drum site especially. My post at The Oil Drum in Philly, "Peak Corn? As Wal-Mart Shifts from Petroleum to Corn, Farmers Flee the Crop", reveals a few of the problematic feedback loops that we're likely to face.

Peak Food is going to be an enormous issue. In the last few years, virtually overnight, China has gone from being self-sufficient in grain to a net importer of 100s of millions of tons.

What do you think about starting a new site for "A Community Discussion About Peak Food"?

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Yankee on October 21, 2005 - 11:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Aresh actually spoke at Petrocollapse. I talked to him afterwards about vegetable gardens around Manhattan, and he said that there really aren't very many. The organization is pretty cool, but they seem to have their hands full in the Bronx, so I don't think they'll be starting up in Manhattan anytime soon.

There are lots of community gardens (www.cenyc.org), but hardly any of them are food gardens. But perhaps the Council on the Env't is the place to start. As for greenmarkets, there are a bunch on the upper west side, not on the east side. But that website is where to find who to contact re: green markets.

peakguy--I'm not the kind of person who's good at making contacts, but if you make headway somewhere, I'll help you out in the garden. The upper east side is certainly closer than the Bronx for me...

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Glenn on October 22, 2005 - 8:24am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I have emailed the Council on the Environment, but no response yet. The local green area is Carl Schurz park, so maybe that's something I should get involved with but again they don't do food. When I walked past yesterday, I thought the large broad double horseshoe shaped pathway would be big enough for the farmer booths.
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