Monthly Archives: October 2024

MUG first formed as a land trust to purchase and preserve community gardens

The three cases demonstrate different ways that the value of urban growing spaces can be socially constructed through organizational activities and discourse. Garden organizations legitimize urban agriculture to legitimize themselves, and their strategic decisions to attract the resources they need … Continue reading

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Community organizations resisting development are rarely on an even footing with the growth coalition

In the context of intertwined, increasingly urgent social and environmental problems, I argue that knowledge of how community groups secure long-term use of urban land for gardens has practical as well as theoretical significance. My research underscores the political and … Continue reading

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The farm executives intend for these classes to be open to anyone on the farm

Others on the farm believe that the courses are open to all workers except pickers. This unofficial, yet effective exclusion of pickers from the English classes inadvertently shores up segregation on the farm.Mateo is 29 years old, a Mixteco father … Continue reading

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Several additional farmers interviewed also raised similar concerns

A different farmer echoed this sentiment, saying that “I’m not going to magically get rid of issues that soil tests show… I can only slightly move the needle, no matter what I do.” Most farmers recognized that soil tests produced … Continue reading

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It is not surprising that soil texture is an important determinant of SOM in these organic systems

These initial results highlight the usefulness of establishing farm typologies based on indicators for soil organic matter as a novel approach to study gradients in soil quality on organic farms. The three farm types generated based on soil organic matter … Continue reading

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Farmers tend to think holistically about their farm management

On-farm experimentation was a critical component of knowledge building as well. For these farmers, experimentation consisted of on-farm methodical trials implemented at small scales, most often directly on a small portion of their fields. Experimentation was often incited by observation … Continue reading

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Such an orientation also facilitated water drainage within the fields which prevented soil erosion

Joya de Cerén serves as a valuable case study in household archaeology because of the detail that can be obtained concerning prehispanic Mesoamerican residential and rural lifeways . For example, the exceptional preservation establishes consistent characteristics and components of an … Continue reading

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