Subject: Village: Food

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 21:58:42 -0400

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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
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The Village

A set of links to topics of interest to the
Self-Sufficient Sustainable Village

Food
What is more basic than food? It is (one of) our (few) primary, daily, essential connections with the Universe. Providing it for ourselves is a radical, subversive act, but no more radical or subservsive than the siezure of this capability by the industrialized system. Lots and lots of possibilities here...to impose some kind of organization, I've broken it up into the elements of the process:

growing | preserving | consuming | locally self-sufficient system

Growing Food

News Groups
alt.sustainable.agriculture
alt.agriculture.misc
rec.gardens

WEB sites
American Community Gardening Association

1997 annual conference.

Community Supported Agriculture.
Permaculture Visions Leaders in permaculture by correspondence.
InterGarden - Organic agriculture, farmscaping, permaculture, and bioregionalism.
Home page from University of Arizona, Federal sources of information on sustainable ag
Organic gardening: Not clear who authors this page, but it has some links to topics like composting, using earthworms, etc.
Gardening resource list
Catalogue of gardening catalogues
Organic farmers home page, a jumbled list of links, some of which are already here
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
Seed catalogs catalogs that are committed to open-pollinated, untreated seed.
Sustainable Ag and Greenhouses , from Life Support Technologies, a page from the Institute for Planetary Renewal.

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Preserving Food
News groups
rec.food.preserving

Still searching for info on indigenous methods of food preservation (after all, people have been eating for some 10,000 years, and only in the last 50 or so has most of our food been preserved by mega-corporations...if we are going to be self-sufficient, we'll have to relearn old methods). A few links to the more contemporary institutionalized, industrialized system:

WEB sites
Dept of Food Science, U of MN , with lots and lots of links to other sites of similar persuasion.

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Consuming Food
How to eat what we grow...
News groups
rec.food.veg
alt.food

WEB sites
Vegetarian Pages
Veggies Unite!: Your on-line guide to vegetarianism, including conversion tables, recipes, meal planner, veg info on the Internet.

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Locally Self- Sufficient System
WEB sites
Ryerson Food Security
International Conference on Sustainable Urban Food Systems
Urban Food Systems - a list of very good links.

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