Community gardening

Right now there are 20-40 people getting ready to work in community run, Neighbor-Space owned gardens in Humboldt Park. Each will have adequate space to grow enough veggies for themselves, but probably not enough room for much else. Some, the Harold Washington Victory Garden and the Our Block Community Farm at Potomac and Washtenaw, have contiguous space that could be farmed. Through intensive gardening practices, this land could be quite productive, either over the long term, such as with perennial herbs and fruit trees, or in using quicker growing crops like lettuce greens, spinach or peas, for the greens.

Humboldt Park seems a hot bed full of ambitious gardeners and community activists. We’ve declared that growing ones’ own food is a political act, and a democratic right. Lifting our voices and our shovels, it’s time soon, to get up to our knees in it.

Art and craft

3/14

Today I cut down a tree. Worked over at Karen’s place. We planted seeds with Una for the first time. Peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, flowers and greens. It was quite sunny and warm today, pleasant for a day as an urban farmer. Welcome to Urban Infarmation. My name is Noah Stein and I’m an urban farmer, cultivating land, minds, neighborhoods, people, spaces.  Making Big plans, failing.  Making smaller plans failing.  Making medium plans success, not making any plans more success, more failure. Practicing this craft is a challenge; practicing this craft in the city is revolutionary. Farming is no doubt an art, and it is beyond question that I am in dire need of practice. I am driven to do it, and today was just another day of practice.