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11/20/2015

Grateful for social biz model exploration for UBRLOCAL's cooperative version of Farmigo at . Thanks to Emzingo, Pinchot, NetImpact

10/10/2015

We think this deserves a share and some clapping.

06/23/2015

"New mapping research has shown 90% of Americans can be fed entirely within 100 miles".

New farmland-mapping research published today (June 1) shows that up to 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes.

04/30/2015

Please sign the petition and share. Over 300 nonprofit seed libraries in the U.S. might be regulated out of existence due to misapplication of seed laws by several state departments of agriculture.

We need your voice as a seed advocate. Since 2012 Seed Matters has provided assistance for community seed solutions, including seed libraries. Seed libraries facilitate the sharing of locally saved seeds among community members, something gardeners have been doing for thousands of years. Unfortunate…

04/13/2015

We're excited to see Paul Stamets from Fungi Perfectif coming to Seattle through The Common Acre! Paul is a true innovator!

Join Paul Stamets, speaker, author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, for an informative lecture on mushrooms and that aims to deepen your understanding and respect for the organisms that literally exist under every footstep you take on this path of life. His presentation will cover a…

04/10/2015

One of the more positive views on the water crisis in California. We can build a water management system for the 21st century and we can look to Australia on how they are building theirs.

A fourth year of severe drought is waking Californians to the reality of global warming and the value of our most precious resource. The state’s reservoirs are dangerously low, and the California Climate Center is projecting that rising temperatures could result in 80 percent less snow pack by the e…

12/13/2014

"Thomas Jefferson said he didn’t think we could have democracy unless at least 20% of the population was self-supporting on small farms so they were independent enough to be able to tell an oppressive government to stuff it. It is very difficult to control people who can create products without purchasing inputs from the system, who can market their products directly thus avoiding the involvement of mercenary middlemen, who can butcher animals and preserve foods without reliance on industrial conglomerates, and who can’t be bullied because they can feed their own faces."
- Eliot Coleman

Biodiversity in action: lettuces grow at Four Season Farm. Photo: Four Season Farm This post was adapted from an address Coleman gave at this year's Eco-Farm conference in California. -------------...

10/23/2014

Technology for the masses!

Carrot is more than a vegetable- it's an experience.

10/18/2014

Thanks for this knowledge Urban Farm Hub! Free Plants, seeds and mushrooms tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 19 at noon).

10/08/2014

Just got this little life's story from Gil Schieber of Skipley Farm, Thanks for the nice peek into the life of a farmer, educator, and community food organizer! Find more products and updates from Gill at https://seattle.ubrlocal.com/gilschieber

The education of a gardener>farmer:
Be set in the tall grass at age one, have your own garden at eight and play in the family garden, work at a local farm start age 12 or sooner, get a BS in Horticulture, choose the National Farm School. Be a Rodale enthusiast, a Fukuoka friend, feel Wendel Berry's poetry, WWOOF, x country on bike, work on more farms, find the Good Shepherd Center or the like, volunteer, volunteer and volunteer, land pay dirt, work a long time at it e.g. 25 years, and log it, learn and teach urban permaculture-holistic-urban-agriculture, Live in/steward your own place, discover Ballard -land of no trees due to the Nordic liking light, hang out 8-10 years, learn to propagate, cloth the village with thousands of plants from a backyard share-and-sell party, build community, start a ‘Garden Open’ tradition-have a “garage sale” 2x/year, model it after the National Garden Scheme>invite 10000 visitors and have many garden parties/sales; duplicate, inspire; move out to the "country" e.g. Snohomish, start a farm- smack in the middle of an urban hub, meet neighbors, become the axle, call it Skipley, or some other dancing street name, propagate and acquire as many edible plants as possible and grow them well, e.g. 2000 apple trees, 170 varieties, 200 seedless grape vines-15 varieties, 1500 blueberries-15 varieties, every berry you can grow, with a few favorites. Build a nursery, CSA, sell at Farm Markets, do Landscape Design, offer the farm as a coop, trust or simply a model that the community feeds from; regenerate, refine, become a philosopher.

10/03/2014

Remember (or dealing with now) selling wrapping paper and magazines to raise money for your middle school? Check out Farmraiser, a new fundraising model that uses high quality, local foods instead.

Are you tired of the school bake sales and other ways to make money? See what great produce FarmRaiser is offering instead of the usual wrapping paper!

09/24/2014

Rent community and commercial kitchen space on Übrlocal Seattle.

ÜbrLocal Seattle - The Millionair Club Charity is a Seattle non-profit organization helping to rebuild lives by offering