Comments on: Having Lunch with the Food For Life Partnership http://transitionculture.org/2008/07/02/having-lunch-with-the-food-for-life-partnership/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Katie http://transitionculture.org/2008/07/02/having-lunch-with-the-food-for-life-partnership/comment-page-1/#comment-59467 Katie Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:02:55 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=1248#comment-59467 <p>Hello i,m katie... i lived in england 4 years ago and i didn't get the chance to go to st kaths.... Could you give a shout out to Lewis ªPhilips, he lives at 68, marine parade pill, bs20obp... you can say hello in assembaly.... ... please please please~!!111 love u lewis!!!!!!!!!1</p> Hello i,m katie… i lived in england 4 years ago and i didn’t get the chance to go to st kaths…. Could you give a shout out to Lewis ªPhilips, he lives at 68, marine parade pill, bs20obp… you can say hello in assembaly…. … please please please~!!111 love u lewis!!!!!!!!!1

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]]> By: Jim http://transitionculture.org/2008/07/02/having-lunch-with-the-food-for-life-partnership/comment-page-1/#comment-58110 Jim Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:23:36 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=1248#comment-58110 <p>I liked how you gave the Devil his due, and explained why a move from local to corporate would seem like a good thing.</p> <p>In a public housing site a mile from me in the US, a fellow asked if he could set up a garden. The administration told him to take the baseball diamond.</p> <p>"The whole thing?", he replied incredulously. "No one plays there anyhow," he was told. Nonetheless, he just took a small patch.</p> <p>This year he took the whole diamond. It's amazing: sweet corn, tomatoes, cabbages, watermelon, peas, squash, and many other vegetables for sale; with about 20 kids under the age of 12 hanging around/helping/getting the way.</p> <p>14 months ago, he had never gardened at all. Today, pounds of nutritious, local vegetables harvested every day off about an acre and a half.</p> <p>His secret? "I didn't get any foundation funding". No one to micro-manage or dictate that it was impossible. Some good news in rough times. http://pvapeacegarden.org/</p> I liked how you gave the Devil his due, and explained why a move from local to corporate would seem like a good thing.

In a public housing site a mile from me in the US, a fellow asked if he could set up a garden. The administration told him to take the baseball diamond.

“The whole thing?”, he replied incredulously. “No one plays there anyhow,” he was told. Nonetheless, he just took a small patch.

This year he took the whole diamond. It’s amazing: sweet corn, tomatoes, cabbages, watermelon, peas, squash, and many other vegetables for sale; with about 20 kids under the age of 12 hanging around/helping/getting the way.

14 months ago, he had never gardened at all. Today, pounds of nutritious, local vegetables harvested every day off about an acre and a half.

His secret? “I didn’t get any foundation funding”.
No one to micro-manage or dictate that it was impossible. Some good news in rough times.
http://pvapeacegarden.org/

]]> By: Finn Jackson http://transitionculture.org/2008/07/02/having-lunch-with-the-food-for-life-partnership/comment-page-1/#comment-58108 Finn Jackson Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:10:18 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=1248#comment-58108 <p>I had to laugh at the sink plug in the cabbage! :o)</p> <p>This is a really important initiative. I am currently reading David Holmgren's "Permaculture: Principles and pathways..." which I struggle sometimes to understand how to put into practice. This is a really good example of a step towards that.</p> <p>I also want to share this video with everyone, which a friend sent to me yesterday. It shows 13 year old Severn Suzuki telling the UN... well, you can hear for yourselves what she tells them/us. It's six and half minutes of passionate, irrefutable argument:</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q</p> <p>The tragedy is that she said it 16 years ago and we haven't acted on what she said. But it helps me now to focus on what is important.</p> I had to laugh at the sink plug in the cabbage! :o )

This is a really important initiative. I am currently reading David Holmgren’s “Permaculture: Principles and pathways…” which I struggle sometimes to understand how to put into practice. This is a really good example of a step towards that.

I also want to share this video with everyone, which a friend sent to me yesterday. It shows 13 year old Severn Suzuki telling the UN… well, you can hear for yourselves what she tells them/us. It’s six and half minutes of passionate, irrefutable argument:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q

The tragedy is that she said it 16 years ago and we haven’t acted on what she said. But it helps me now to focus on what is important.

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