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Covid, Farmers Markets, and City Hall

Covid, Farmers Markets, and City Hall

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The pandemic of 2020 has wrought incomprehensible devastation and still it has been powerfully instructive. Intertwined with many threads of public health disparities, racial injustices, and abject failures of governance, we have also more widely exposed the critical frailties of the dominant, industrial food system. My focus here is to emphasize the value of public street space and the City of Seattle’s treatment of our farmers markets during the pandemic.

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Why I Support Small Family Farms

Why I Support Small Family Farms

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Farming seems so idyllic. Old McDonald, the proverbial song, is my first recollection of the quintessential farming dream. A happy song with joyful animals. Seared in my memory are daytrips to my Grandmother’s house to find the choicest Halloween pumpkin; the tallest,... Read more...
Growing Homes with a Land Trust: Supporting Community with Good Food

Growing Homes with a Land Trust: Supporting Community with Good Food

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A Seattle-based non-profit organization retained MetroAG Strategies to complement the work of its real estate design and development team. The development project will create about two dozen affordable, net-zero energy, cottages for sale on a parcel of land currently owned by a church. The site currently hosts a thriving community garden that supports a handful of low-income immigrant families with healthy food options for themselves and their neighbors.

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Thoughts on Healthy Communities

Thoughts on Healthy Communities

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The inner world is in our mind. Our outer or human experience is where and how we exist, interact and observe others, gather news, spend our time, and be in the world. The mind is the harbinger of mental health. Can the environment we live in impact our mental health?... Read more...
How Does Your Neighborhood Score?

How Does Your Neighborhood Score?

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I live in a great city-the Emerald City- Seattle, Washington. Living here 32 years is more than half my life.  I started life as a New Englander, growing up in a Connecticut suburban town with a couple elementary school years in Buffalo, college in Schenectady, New... Read more...