The Solution is not: “Business as usual”

The following news media clip offers agro-industries the option of chopping down miles of serene boreal ecosystems to support the rising global demand for food production. Having ridden a train across Siberia some years ago, I can say that what I saw was more development than I expected, though I was comforted by the fact [...]

What of this “fertility”?

Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer 
By KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTIN
Published: April 30, 2008
Population growth, shrinking world grain stocks and a growing appetite for meat, particularly in the developing world, has collided with a shortage of fertilizer.
(Read article…)

…a shortage of fertilizer?! Now the global food markets are telling us there’s not enough shit floating around to [...]

Wake up (and smell the flowers)

I managed to capture this on video on my way to work today. I like it because it was spontaneous and at first you can’t tell you are in a city, then the clues start seeping in…

This was taken on the corner of Bushwick and Gates (where I live).

Pick of the Green-wash

One very comprehensive way to think about degrees of ecological self-sufficiency is this “three shades of green” system introduced to me by my friend Adam Brock. The green cred of a car company would be the “lite” shade of green. And I like to think about it as a gradient towards an ultra-balanced forest green [...]

City Composting

During the discussion of how to organize our community garden out here in Bushwick, many of the older community members took issue with food composting because in the past, it has attracted rats. At the time, I felt like it would be a little rude to counter their reluctance with blaming the maintenance of the [...]

Wrong Reason for Unreason

This is a reaction to book writte in response to Susan Jacoby’s book: Age of American Unreason
(This entry was inspired by her appearance on the Colbert Report last night and this article in the NY Times)
Come on, guys. Western Education always has been a colonially structured institution who’s very organization marginalizes and pigeonholes our youth [...]

Food is Renewable Energy

Growing your own food is beneficial on a variety of levels.
Canada’s York University has up quite a comprehensive blog about their Community Garden, I took a particular interest in their page update about their tomatoes.
If you haven’t started your seeds yet, check out this A-Z Gardening post for “seed starting secrets” – even though they [...]

Earth Day Events in NYC

So it just dawned on me that tomorrow is EARTH DAY!
I am going to be running a vermicompost workshop at the Hope Gardens Community Center in the morning, then heading over to the Woodbine Garden to plant some seeds with student groups.

If you can’t join us out in Bushwick, here’s a list of events you [...]

Skyfarming: Big Budget Development of Urban Agriculture

Just came across this article in New York Magazine, written a few weeks ago by Lisa Chamberlain.

When I took a glimpse of the image above, I saw a valiant attempt at an organic system packaged and marketed to fit the “profitable development” aesthetic. The funny thing is that urban farming can be even simpler than [...]

The Season is Here

Welcome.
At Xposure, we are just starting some of our seeds.

The kids planted their own clusters of carrots (above), cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and dahlia flowers. However, my friend Lewis decided to get a head start because he gets such great light in his apartment…

Pictured above: corn, peppers – fantastic city veggie, herbs – these are mint [...]