Tapsearch Com EditorPlowing the future - intercity farming
October 20th 2010 22:02
By Ray Tapajna
Economy is going underground in more ways than one
The Readers Digest reported that it takes about 12,000 miles for an average meal to get to the table.
Plowing the future economy
However in Cleveland Ohio things are changing. The inner city has been depopulated. The busy main streets are gone. The city has lost about one half of its population. Homes and factories are being torned down with vacate land being in ample supply. There are now about ten community co-op farms in the city and the concept is growing. It will grow for various reasons with so many people being out of work. It is an economic war and food is a weapon.
In World War 2, the Victory Gardens were everywhere as people planted their own food supply. In the 2010 economic war, history will repeat itself. The working poor have found a good way to survive.
Here are some of the stories about it:
Vision to reuse decaying inner-city land for urban farms, gardens ...
... Vision to reuse decaying inner-city land for urban farms, ... The nonprofit and the city of Cleveland funded this year through a project ...
URBAN FARMING
Downtown on the Farm | News Features | Cleveland Scene
If urban farming in Cleveland has a godfather, it would be Erich Hooper. .... He plans to locate it in an inner-city food desert where ...
Inne r City farming
... from farm fields to produce-starved city neighborhoods. ... Lisa-Jean Sylvia runs City Fresh program, bringing farm-grown food to inner-city ... If Cleveland had a designation for First Sprite, Sylvia could be it. ...
Fresh
foods locally
Ohio City farm: organic acres under city lights
... Refugees cultivate inner city. Video; Photo; Map. ohio city farm ... CLEVELAND - The farmers are from Rwanda, Burundi, Burma and Bhutan. ...
Refugees regrow city from the ground up
Tremont Farmers' Market - Local Food Cleveland
An inner city farmers' market looking to connect people through food, the arts, and music. ... TUFS- Tremont Urban Food System Wonder City Farm Woolf Farms ...
Connecting
people through food
The Cleveland Plain Dealer had an editorial about the urban farms and said that farms -to-table could create 18,000 new jobs, generate more than $500 million annually in wages, and $120 million in state and local taxes- quoting Michael Shuman, the guru on the greening of local economies.
This sounds great but I do not think it is going to happen that way. Why should people grow their own food and then pay taxes on it. Political leaders are currently promoting a 23 percent national sales tax. The tax most likely will not be on food but people will be faced with finding ways to circumvent this
massive overhead for daily living and will turn to growing their own food. There
will be co-ops and communities but people can also do it in their own ways and trade and barter with each other using food as the the basis of transactions. There is no reason to grow a business with this kind of farming
on large scale. I envision the working poor and the retail workers, having their own gardens large and small with food becoming a money value to be traded.
People can also gather together in small communities and co-ops where they grow the food together and sharing it according to some balanced value.
And why can't other products be approached in the same way. Most of our products use up miles of energy and the ecology getting here and greening
local economies will include doing things locally as much as possible while
evading the big money systems and taxes.
Professor Edgar Feige of the University of Wisconsin recently put the size of the U.S. underground economy at between $500 billion and $1 trillion in 1993.
It is most likely has doubled since then and will most likley quickly double again as more workers lose their jobs. They have to find ways to survive and growing food and making things they use is a good way to do it.
On the positive side it brings people together who are suffering the same hardships and creates advocacies for helping one another. Inner city farming is
one of the ways and it is on its way. The tax collectors will have to have a police force going into everyones back yard. There will not be enough taxes to pay for it.
Economy is going underground in more ways than one
The Readers Digest reported that it takes about 12,000 miles for an average meal to get to the table.
Plowing the future economy
However in Cleveland Ohio things are changing. The inner city has been depopulated. The busy main streets are gone. The city has lost about one half of its population. Homes and factories are being torned down with vacate land being in ample supply. There are now about ten community co-op farms in the city and the concept is growing. It will grow for various reasons with so many people being out of work. It is an economic war and food is a weapon.
In World War 2, the Victory Gardens were everywhere as people planted their own food supply. In the 2010 economic war, history will repeat itself. The working poor have found a good way to survive.
Here are some of the stories about it:
Vision to reuse decaying inner-city land for urban farms, gardens ...
... Vision to reuse decaying inner-city land for urban farms, ... The nonprofit and the city of Cleveland funded this year through a project ...
URBAN FARMING
Downtown on the Farm | News Features | Cleveland Scene
If urban farming in Cleveland has a godfather, it would be Erich Hooper. .... He plans to locate it in an inner-city food desert where ...
Inne r City farming
... from farm fields to produce-starved city neighborhoods. ... Lisa-Jean Sylvia runs City Fresh program, bringing farm-grown food to inner-city ... If Cleveland had a designation for First Sprite, Sylvia could be it. ...
Fresh
foods locally
Ohio City farm: organic acres under city lights
... Refugees cultivate inner city. Video; Photo; Map. ohio city farm ... CLEVELAND - The farmers are from Rwanda, Burundi, Burma and Bhutan. ...
Refugees regrow city from the ground up
Tremont Farmers' Market - Local Food Cleveland
An inner city farmers' market looking to connect people through food, the arts, and music. ... TUFS- Tremont Urban Food System Wonder City Farm Woolf Farms ...
Connecting
people through food
The Cleveland Plain Dealer had an editorial about the urban farms and said that farms -to-table could create 18,000 new jobs, generate more than $500 million annually in wages, and $120 million in state and local taxes- quoting Michael Shuman, the guru on the greening of local economies.
This sounds great but I do not think it is going to happen that way. Why should people grow their own food and then pay taxes on it. Political leaders are currently promoting a 23 percent national sales tax. The tax most likely will not be on food but people will be faced with finding ways to circumvent this
massive overhead for daily living and will turn to growing their own food. There
will be co-ops and communities but people can also do it in their own ways and trade and barter with each other using food as the the basis of transactions. There is no reason to grow a business with this kind of farming
on large scale. I envision the working poor and the retail workers, having their own gardens large and small with food becoming a money value to be traded.
People can also gather together in small communities and co-ops where they grow the food together and sharing it according to some balanced value.
And why can't other products be approached in the same way. Most of our products use up miles of energy and the ecology getting here and greening
local economies will include doing things locally as much as possible while
evading the big money systems and taxes.
Professor Edgar Feige of the University of Wisconsin recently put the size of the U.S. underground economy at between $500 billion and $1 trillion in 1993.
It is most likely has doubled since then and will most likley quickly double again as more workers lose their jobs. They have to find ways to survive and growing food and making things they use is a good way to do it.
On the positive side it brings people together who are suffering the same hardships and creates advocacies for helping one another. Inner city farming is
one of the ways and it is on its way. The tax collectors will have to have a police force going into everyones back yard. There will not be enough taxes to pay for it.
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I took a drive down the roads in these semi rural areas and noted many small farms and apparently different small business endeavors.
It is a sign of the future.
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Oct 28, 2010 ... The Plain Dealer Oct 27, 2010. Excerpt: CLEVELAND, Ohio — By next fall ... $1.1 million pilot program Wednesday to create an urban farm at East 83rd ... expand the program in Kinsman and to other Cleveland neighborhoods. ...
New inner city farming government program
The concept is right but the program only applys to about one-half of an acre and $55,000 for each person chosen to participate in the project. This seems like a contradiction since $55,000 could buy alot of farm land with many more acres, close to the city and enough money left over to show new farmers how to do it.