Today's Garden City

So technically this blog has been terminated- but one last note:
I've got to post an article I wrote for the newsletter of my employer, Regional Plan Association, which is a non-profit urban planning research & advocacy group for the New York region.
Today's Garden City connects the current local food movement with similar efforts over a hundred years ago in England thatgave rise to the "Garden City" movement and ultimately to the development of urban planning in America and the founding of RPA.

Saying goodbye to the Garden State

I had to say goodbye to my garden in August to move away for a new job! So sad! Luckily, my next door neighbors said they would care for the plot until the end of the season (all that produce I couldn't harvest myself), and even if I couldn't be there, I know the crops were well loved in my absence.

Since I won't have my own garden for the foreseeable future, I've decided to restart my old blog Big City Small Town, which deals mostly with community planning and sustainability issues- including local and urban agriculture. Southwestern Connecticut, where I now live, is shockingly poor as far as local agriculture goes. Downtown Stamford, a city of 117,000, and a daytime (working population) of 130,000+, doesn't even have a proper farmer's market. We suffer from our proximity to NYC- all the good farmers take their produce where they can get the most customers, and that means they go to the City.

I've really enjoyed being a part of the NJ garden community, and I'll continue to follow your gardens vicariously through your blogs.