Comments on: How to Expand Urban Agriculture http://dirt.asla.org/2010/01/28/how-to-expand-urban-agriculture/ Connecting the Built & Natural Environments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: sunil r doshi http://dirt.asla.org/2010/01/28/how-to-expand-urban-agriculture/#comment-6462 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:22:51 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=3766#comment-6462 hello

goodday. we are from mumbai india and have done work on cityfarming.
our website is http://www.cityfarming.in
http://www.inora.org

we would be visting usa operating from LA and then moving across from july -sept 2011

we would like to interact with like minded organisations/individuals and would like to also demonstrate our work

thanks
sunil doshi

]]> By: Ellen Sousa http://dirt.asla.org/2010/01/28/how-to-expand-urban-agriculture/#comment-1843 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:31:33 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=3766#comment-1843 I appreciate this post…I think that it’s inevitable that anybody who practices landscaping (and in New England this pretty much means anybody who owns or lives in any size property at all) will eventually have to start embracing landscaping that serves a purpose other than aesthetic, eg. rain gardens and planting to mitigate/prevent flooding and erosion, flowering lawns to reduce the chemical treatments which are polluting nearby streams, lakes and coastal bays, strategic planting of evergreens and deciduous trees to cool/shade/insulate homes and cities at various times of the year, home and community vegetable gardens to offset the rising cost of fresh/healthy foods, vegetated lakeside/stream buffers to protect clean water supplies and provide essential habitat for pollinators and other essential wildlife, all of these practices will become mainstream as we try to protect our fragile ecosystems from the forces of nature. Good luck to us all!

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