DIY Urban farming in San Francisco

"Today in the Bay Area and beyond, urban homesteaders like Ms. Stone and her roommates are raising their own food in their backyards, in community gardens and on derelict and undeveloped spaces in the city. They’re preserving and pickling vegetables and fruits, sewing their own clothes, baking bread, making alcoholic beverages, and much more.
As the movement has flourished and become more mainstream — embraced by activists and food lovers alike — so too have the resources for would-be urban homesteaders."

Read the full article at the New York Times here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/dining/23sfdine.html

How to Build Community Poster!

Ideas like:
Start a tradition
Turn off your TV
Mediate Conflict
Plant flowers
Plant food
Have Potlucks

For ideas on having your town be a Transition town model click here:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/


So what exactly is a Transition Town? 

A Transition Initiative (which could be a town, village, university or island etc) is a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction.

Local Resilience for All Workshop

Building an Inclusive, Justice-Centered Movement for Regional Self-Reliance

This six-hour workshop, designed by the Catalyst Project (see below), is based on the belief that anti-racism can be a catalyst for building powerful, effective multiracial movements that can create real justice in this country. It is designed to support white social justice activists in building an analysis of white supremacy and white privilege and developing anti-racist/pro-justice organizing skills.

Looking at historical and current institutional racism and how white privilege impacts social justice activist work, the workshop will introduce us to anti-racist organizing principles that we can bring into all of our efforts to build a healthy, sustainable, and just society. We will connect these topics to the challenges and prospects of building a truly inclusive movement for regional self-reliance that's centered in social justice.

WHEN: Saturday, October 17th, 10 am - 4 pm

WHERE: Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland (between Telegraph and Broadway)

COST: $50 - $100 (sliding scale) + $10 local/organic/veggie lunch (optional, but restaurants are sparse near the Hall)

REGISTER TODAY!

• SEND A CHECK for the amount you can afford ($50-100 plus $10 for optional lunch), made payable to "Earth Island Institute c/o Bay Localize" with "10/17 Workshop" in the memo line. Address it to: Bay Localize, 436 14th Street, Suite 1127, Oakland, CA 94612
  
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• REGISTER ONLINE below by making a donation for the amount you can afford ($50-100 plus $10 for optional lunch) AND e-mail us at rsvp@baylocalize.org to let us know you want the donation to cover your workshop tuition.
• https://www.earthislandprojects.org/bayLocalize/donate.html
  

Turn your backyard into a Food Production Farm!

Why simply grow food for your family when you can become a local food producing farm for your neighbors too!

Their vision from the website:
At the end of the day... we're all going to have to make our own decisions and come to our own conclusions about what each one of us can do to ensure that what we enjoy today will continue to be here for our friends and family tomorrow.

At MyFarm it is our mission to make growing food and growing community one in the same. We believe in the power of the individual. But we believe true power comes from working together towards a better future for all.

Our vision is a truly secure and regenerative food system. We want to offer everyone in our community a chance to participate in achieving greater personal sustainability by installing local organic gardens, selling organic vegetables to neighbors and continually seeking ways for others to lend their ideas, their time and their hands to our growing organization.

Check out My Farm to either find neighbors to buy great organic food from or to become a local farm!
http://myfarmsf.com/