Category: Agriculture

Growing Power, Inc.

Growing Power (www.growingpower.org) is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities.  Growing Power implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance [...]

Urban Renewer

Farmer Robert Pierce takes produce to the people
Original here: http://www.madisonmagazine.com/Madison-Magazine/October-2009/Urban-Renewer/
Urban farmer Robert Pierce has clear eyes that for decades have carefully watched crops grow, large hands that keep Wisconsin soil under his fingernails and the slight stoop that comes from working long hours in fields. As a local urban farmer, he grows fresh vegetables, fruits [...]

Professional Fellowships

A fundamental development goal for The Just Life community is the creation of profession based “fellowships” within local communities in order to work through how to use specific gifts and callings to live a life of love and justice.  In an effort to facilitate those discussions, provide a collaborative space, and generate a knowledge bank [...]