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Get Growing Keep Going 2010

Scott — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:06:26 +0000

I’ll be teaching a class on school garden design at this year’s Get Growing Keep Going, school gardening conference. Check out the program and register today!

Web Roundup // August 2, 2009

Scott — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:23:48 +0000

In between working on the orchard/chicken-run fence and praying for quail eggs, I’ve come across quite a few notable items on the web. Here are some of my favorites:

Michael Pollan, Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch
Michael Pollan’s latest piece in the New York TImes Magazine traces our love of food TV, from Julia Child to Iron Chef, and asks why we spend more time watching cooking on television than doing it ourselves. It’s a must read.
Treehugger, Jellyfish Changing the Ocean’s Temperature…by Stirring It??
Can the cumulative effect of swimming fish have as much impact in mixing the oceans as the tides? It just goes to show that the biosphere has just as much a hand in shaping our living planet as the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere.
TED Talks, Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering
Gever Tulley talks about his tinkering school for kids. They build some amazing stuff and show the real potential of project based learning–engaging our children in creative exercise that prepares them for the ups and downs of the real world.
Charlie McCarthy, Flight Patterns
This is just beautiful. Charlie McCarthy uses time lapse and long exposure photography to trace the flight patterns of insects around a light post. Via Cartoon Brew

flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.
FORA.tv, Food Security and Climate Change @ The Open Society Institute
FORA presents wonderful discussion with Ross Gelbspan, Mark Hertsgaard, and Sara Scherr on how we can adapt agriculture to meet the coming challenges of climate change. Chapter 7, Allowing Trees to Grow in Grain Fields in Africa, is a particularly interesting description of agroforestry and permaculture in Niger.

Mentioned in Austin Woman

Scott — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:51:23 +0000

The latest issue of Austin Woman has a feature on Chef Alma, of Fonda San Miguel Restaurant. The garden and myself get a nice mention too.

Fruit Rescue on Austin360

Scott — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:09:04 +0000

My Fruit Rescue project was mentioned on Austin360.com.

EcoNetworking

Scott — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:18:06 +0000

I just started blogging at the new Austin EcoNetwork website.

Hope for a Compassionate War on Drugs

Scott — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:00:18 +0000

Hope for a compassionate War on Drugs?

Austin Chronicle likes the Fonda Garden!

Scott — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:15:58 +0000

My work at the Fonda San Miguel Restaurant vegetable garden was recently featured in The Austin Chronicle.

Also check out my Fonda Photo Journal:

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Food Security Animation

Scott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:29:53 +0000

Take a look at this short animation produced by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture. It does a great job of summing up how individuals are effected by and can affect global food security. It’s Japan-centric, but the problem is similar throughout the world. Why not take charge of your own food security and plant a vegetable garden?

Eat City Hall

Scott — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:05:17 +0000

An amazing statement for a more sustainable food system was just planted at San Francisco city hall. It’s entire front lawn was removed and replaced with a Victory Garden, filled with a variety of edibles, to coincide with the Slow Food Nation conference that is taking place there at the end of August.

Follow the progress of the garden at the Slow Food Nation blog.

*UPDATE*
I made it out to San Francisco for Slow Food Nation ‘08. It was really inspirational to see my Slow Food heroes and be surrounded by so many other people that are passionate about good food. See my photos below: