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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 
Your vote today (by noon California time) will help us WIN a $10,000 donation. Your vote will enable us to continue to green urban areas across the globe with organic food gardens to help eradicate hunger! Please take a moment to vote for URBAN FARMING at: myspace.com/impactawards
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 

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Urban Farming is nominated for a myspace Impact Award for environmentalism! We need your vote once each day through April 30th, to help us green our planet and eradicate hunger! It only takes a moment to make a great impact: Impact Awards



Urban Farming’s mission is to eradicate hunger, alleviate poverty and green our environment. We locate and secure unused land, space, rooftops and walls for the purpose of bringing community members together to plant organic food gardens in urban areas throughout America and abroad. Children, adults and seniors are given the supplies, tools, and education to create a lasting sustainable solution to these global issues.

Neighbors are encouraged to share their fresh healthy harvest with local food banks to help others in need. Our system of increasing diversity while working together for a common cause builds safer cities, provides food security, and instills hope for a better future. Planting attractive food gardens beautifies the area and helps to lower the heat index, aiding in the fight against global warming. Growing locally reduces the use of fossil fuels related to transporting produce to and from stores.

Urban Farming host several green science gardens in schools K thru 12. Children learn about team building, skills training, self-sufficiency, environmental issues, nutrition, health, and balanced living. They bring home their knowledge and healthy harvest to share with their families. Older students receive the education and inspiration to prepare them for many types of green jobs and are encouraged to stay in school and volunteer in their community. A portion of the food grown in schools is also donated to local food banks.

Our Urban Farming Food Chain 'Edible' Wall Gardens consist of growing panels vertically installed on the sides of concrete walls, or they can be made portable, free standing on wheels. So far they have been placed at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, The Weingart Center, and The Rainbow Apartments in the Skid Row area of LA. These walls are to be as links in a chain across the world, providing food for the hungry and greening the globe. The most recent edible wall garden was installed at the Brotherhood and SisterSol after school program in Harlem, New York on April 16th, serving over 250 students ages 7 thru 19.















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Thursday, April 09, 2009 



For the first time in its more-than-100-year history, Campbell Soup Company is making available to the American public specially cultivated seeds used to grow tomatoes for its iconic Campbell’s® Tomato soup. The effort is part of Campbell’s goal to grow more than one billion tomatoes across the country and to support American agriculture.


Campbell also is teaming up with the National FFA Organization and Urban Farming Inc., each of which will use the special seeds to help create five community gardens in urban communities.

Through June 21 (or while supplies last), each household that purchases any variety Campbell’s condensed soup and enters the code on the can at HelpGrowYourSoup.com can request a free packet of Campbell’s tomato seeds to plant in their own backyards and windowsills.  With each request, Campbell will donate the seeds being used to plant community gardens and achieve the one-billion-tomato goal. TV personality and gardening guru Danny Seo is helping to kick off the spring planting spree. He says the timing couldn’t be better for Campbell to implement such an initiative. 

“There is a huge trend right now of people seeking to grow their own food in their own gardens, because it’s cost effective, environmentally friendly and ultimately produces delicious, fresh-tasting ingredients,” said Seo. “What’s exciting about using

Campbell’s
seeds is that people will be able to grow a very special tomato that goes into America’s favorite tomato soup – and get those seeds for free!”





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Thursday, March 26, 2009 


URBAN FARMING FOOD CHAIN 'EDIBLE' WALL GARDEN





                            

  

 


URBAN FARMING PARTNERS WITH CAMPBELL'S SOUP

The URBAN FARMING FOOD CHAIN 'edible' WALL GARDEN project has partnered with Campbell's Soup to install a new vertical edible wall at the Brotherhood and SisterSol after school program in Harlem, NY on April 16th. This will be the 5th wall of it's kind, acting as a link in a chain across the globe to provide a sustainable system to eradicate hunger, alleviate poverty, and green our planet. This will also be used as a valuable teaching tool for the 250 students who attend this wonderful enrichment program.

CAMPBELL'S 2009—Planting Seeds for the Future
Campbell and FFA, along with the assistance of Urban Farming (a not-for-profit community gardening association), are working to grow community gardens in six urban areas across the country. In addition, Campbell is partnering with Partners in Active Learning Support (PALS), a mentoring program of the National FFA Organization, to help build agricultural learning greenhouses in schools.


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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 


Check out the planting pics from the Medial Complex in Vaudreuil, Haiti:











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