Urban Harvest Greensboro
(Photo courtesy of Urban Harvest Greensboro, from their website)
We’ve been pleased to see posts on the IndieNC blog about sustainable agriculture, especially support of sustainable farming in NC as well as urban gardening, because it reminds us that there are like-minded people out there for whom “local” and “fresh” (and often “organic”) are synonymous with “good food.”
Throughout this past year we’ve been blessed as freelancers to be able to carve out a portion of each working day to devote to producing food where we live. Our recent move to an apartment in Greensboro meant we had to leave our onions sleeping in the snow and giving up our laying hen to a good home (sorry, Marshmallow). We’re already marking up our seed catalogs, though, because our neighborhood is home to the Dunleith Community Garden, one of the many urban food production projects courtesy of Urban Harvest Greensboro. They’re a non-profit organization devoted to the wide-ranging increase of education on small-scale local food production all around the Greensboro area and beyond, no matter what the landscape. They update their blog once or twice a month, but read back through their entries and you’ll get a good sense of what the burgeoning movement (that seems to be taking hold of the whole of NC) looks like in Greensboro!
—Joel and Ashley, This Paper Ship
YAY!!!! i should have known folks with as much design sense as y’all would have common sense about their food, too. DON’T GIVE UP!! your downtown apartment will, i’m sure, find a way to produce some kind of nutritive substance!!! BEST OF LUCK!