Some of us in Savannah have been poking around for a local/regional produce box program (that delivers) and/or a CSA ready to sprout. In the meantime, we are following the tenets of Square Foot Gardening, reading classics like One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It or The […]

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Just got off the phone with the local parks service and tomorrow I go to check out the garden plots available for planting—free of charge—by Chatham County residents. The director of recreation told me these plots just west of the city used to fill up every year but that over time the number of active […]

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The words of the year for 2007 have been determined. The Oxford American Dictionary picks “locavore” (noun) • one who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius such as 50, 100, or 150 miles.
The term “locavore” was coined two years ago in San Francisco by a group whose official membership has […]

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The map at localharvest.org still doesn’t show much happening in community gardening or Community Sustained Agriculture in Savannah or Chatham County.
Nonetheless, there are people around here who are and who have been bringing organic farm products to their families and this community all the while. They are working on the community garden thing and even […]

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On my regular trips to see family in Allegany, New York, one of the highlights is harvesting my sister-in -law’s weekly “share” from Canticle Garden, a community garden sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany and guided by a dedicated core group of local residents. Each week shareholders go to the farm and pick (or […]

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