Food Growing Connections

Communities looking to broaden access to healthy food and sustain local farms and food production have a new resource: www.GrowingFoodConnections.org, a repository of information on food systems planning.

The site is run by Growing Food Connections, an initiative to strengthen community food systems nationwide, and will grow to include such resources as a Community Guide to Planning for Food and Agriculture.

Led by the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning in partnership with Cultivating Healthy Places, Ohio State University and American Farmland Trust, Growing Food Connections will target 10 "Communities of Opportunity" – communities poised to tackle their food access challenges and agricultural viability – with an intensive program of education, training, technical assistance and extension activities.

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Dynamic Space principles

GKW director Mike Schirmer says Dynamic Space sets a kitchen up into five work zones, including the consumable zone, non-consumable zone, cleaning zone, preparation zone, and cooking zone.

“The Dynamic Space and design is pretty important when we design a kitchen and the problem, when they haven’t been done correctly, is that you’re running from one end of the kitchen to the other, looking for different bits and pieces,” Schirmer says.

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Travels Through The Tamil Kitchen

"She carries a note book and a measuring tape to kitchens to measure things, including stainless-steel cooking pots of various shapes. She sketches, makes floor plans. After visiting 20 kitchens, she is compelled to view them as landscapes. They are often like a whole village, she says, the base for people to float in and out. They open to people outside family, they tell you how people live. “Cooking and living are combined in a private Indian family kitchen.” The Indian kitchen is flexible, meant to include family / friends, unlike Western ones which are closed, functional, modern, with all amenities."

Saito is researching for her book Travels Through The Tamil Kitchen to be published by Tara Books. 

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Brooklyn Grange Farm

Brooklyn Grange is the leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US. We operate the world’s largest rooftop soil farms, located on two roofs in New York City, and grow over 50,000 lbs of organically-cultivated produce per year. In addition to growing and distributing fresh local vegetables and herbs, Brooklyn Grange also provides urban farming and green roof consulting and installation services to clients worldwide, and we partner with numerous non-profit organizations throughout New York to promote healthy and strong local communities.

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ioby - crowdsourcing

ioby is a crowd-resourcing platform for citizen-led neighbor-funded projects. Our name is derived from the opposite of NIMBY. Our mission is to strengthen neighborhoods by supporting the leaders in them who want to make positive change, engaging their neighbors, one block at a time. 

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Food Forest

Gavin White House Food Forest

...transformed into productive, fruitful environments that will support human, animal, and bird population needs including food and building materials

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baba yaga

Baba Yaga is a witch (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) in Slavic folklore, who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking elderly woman. She flies around in a mortar and wields a pestle. She dwells deep in the forest, in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs, with a fence decorated with human skulls

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