Comments on: urban agriculture http://archop.org/2009/06/urban-agriculture/ improving the built environment in the san joaquin valley Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:27:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Madhu http://archop.org/2009/06/urban-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-2529 Madhu Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:09:10 +0000 http://archop.org/?p=569#comment-2529 I've sent you synopsis of our proposed project. Once grant is submitted, I may blog about it as well, at <a href="http://reconciliationecology.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Reconciliation Ecology</a>. I didn't know about your homeless housing project, and am intrigued. Art Dyson recently brought a proposal to CSUF to develop a program of building sustainable eco-housing for homeless instead of the usual tent-city style govt. response. He cited <a href="http://www.cadc.auburn.edu/soa/rural-studio/" rel="nofollow">Rural Studio</a> and <a href="http://www.designbuildbluff.org/" rel="nofollow">Design Build Bluff</a> as models to emulate in a university-architects-community partnership to address this problem. Do you know about this idea? I see you've linked to Dyson's firms among archop exbitors. I’ve sent you synopsis of our proposed project. Once grant is submitted, I may blog about it as well, at Reconciliation Ecology.

I didn’t know about your homeless housing project, and am intrigued. Art Dyson recently brought a proposal to CSUF to develop a program of building sustainable eco-housing for homeless instead of the usual tent-city style govt. response. He cited Rural Studio and Design Build Bluff as models to emulate in a university-architects-community partnership to address this problem. Do you know about this idea? I see you’ve linked to Dyson’s firms among archop exbitors.

]]> By: kiel http://archop.org/2009/06/urban-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-2396 kiel Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:30:31 +0000 http://archop.org/?p=569#comment-2396 That's great. Hank Delcore is a great addition to any team. We worked together on the archop about <a href="http://archop.org/2009/01/february-5-exhibit-housing-for-the-homeless" rel="nofollow">homeless housing</a>. It was my front yard that he was talking about. Another of our neighbors is doing something similar. I'd like to hear more about your project. That’s great. Hank Delcore is a great addition to any team. We worked together on the archop about homeless housing.

It was my front yard that he was talking about. Another of our neighbors is doing something similar.

I’d like to hear more about your project.

]]> By: Madhu http://archop.org/2009/06/urban-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-2395 Madhu Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:14:53 +0000 http://archop.org/?p=569#comment-2395 I love the idea of urban agriculture, and wish more people around here would do it instead of cultivating lawns! Too bad community gardens meet so much resistance when they have the potential to really bring communities back together in very healthy ways. Is the lack of urban agriculture in this city which is completely surrounded by agriculture an example of cognitive dissonance? Or do many living in this city have chosen it to escape the farms? The whole issue is really interesting to me, and I'm intrigued that you wrote about it on the very day when I've had several interesting discussions around the topic while working on a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation for a new multidisciplinary urban ecology research project here! In one of the meetings, Hank Delcore (anthroguy is part of the grant team) was describing how someone in his neighborhood is growing corn in their front yard, and now I see the picture above and wonder if he was talking about your house?! It seems to me that our project could benefit from collaborating with you and archop, and if that interests you we should talk. I'll try to email you a synopsis if I can find your email address. In case you are wondering, I'm an urban ecologist on the biology faculty at Fresno State. Madhu I love the idea of urban agriculture, and wish more people around here would do it instead of cultivating lawns! Too bad community gardens meet so much resistance when they have the potential to really bring communities back together in very healthy ways. Is the lack of urban agriculture in this city which is completely surrounded by agriculture an example of cognitive dissonance? Or do many living in this city have chosen it to escape the farms?

The whole issue is really interesting to me, and I’m intrigued that you wrote about it on the very day when I’ve had several interesting discussions around the topic while working on a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation for a new multidisciplinary urban ecology research project here! In one of the meetings, Hank Delcore (anthroguy is part of the grant team) was describing how someone in his neighborhood is growing corn in their front yard, and now I see the picture above and wonder if he was talking about your house?!

It seems to me that our project could benefit from collaborating with you and archop, and if that interests you we should talk. I’ll try to email you a synopsis if I can find your email address. In case you are wondering, I’m an urban ecologist on the biology faculty at Fresno State.

Madhu

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