The painter Claude Monet in his garden in Giverny, circa 1890.
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Inspiration: Hungry Mother Organics, Encouraging Backyard Farms
What a noble effort to encourage backyard farms and urban gardening.! I would love to be part of it if I lived in the U.S.
Hungry Mother Organics has long wanted to not just sell produce, but get the average person to grow it, as well. Now the local farm is starting a 1,000 Backyard Farms campaign, along with the non-profit F.O.C.U.S. (For Our Country United States) to track and map the growth of the local food network in the Carson Valley and Reno area. Earlier in the year, Backyard farmers of any size were encouraged to sign up their gardens or farms with the campaign. Gardeners who sent a photo or rough sketch of their garden plan and their location to stacey@hungrymother.cc was entered to win $150 worth of soil and plants from Hungry Mother, which was awarded in May.
The idea was to discover how many people are already growing their own food, and how much they’re growing. This data will be used to create an interactive map, which will be available at 1000backyardfarms.org. “Ultimately, we hope to use the information to determine the number of backyard farms in the region, the acreage of the farms and estimated total food yield,” the website states.
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French Food Quote: August 2, 2011
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.–Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire was born into a middle class family in Paris in 1694. He is perhaps the very embodiment of the Enlightenment, serving as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry on the part of the Catholic church as well as government and society, as a result of which he spent time in the Bastille prison and in exile in England, Holland and Geneva. He is best known for his book Candide, a scathing view of humanity, where he concludes the best one can do in life is, “Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” i.e. look after your own garden. He died in 1778.
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