Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution (38 page)

20.
David Garcelon, personal interview with the author, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 30, 2009.

C
HAPTER
7. L
ONDON
: C
APITAL
G
ROWTH

1.
Erik Millstone and Tim Lang,
The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), p. 55.

2.
Ibid.

3.
“Nation of Gardeners: Russians Go Crazy about Organic Lifestyle,”
Russia Today
, television video report, September 6, 2010,
http://rt.com/news/prime-time/russia-rural-urban-gardening/
(accessed October 4, 2010).

4.
“Einstein Scolded for Not Weeding His Allotment—1922,” City-farmer.info, December 7, 2008,
http://www.cityfarmer.info/2008/12/07/einstein-scolded-for-not-weeding-his-allotment-1922/
(accessed August 24, 2011).

5.
Carolyn Steel,
Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
(London: Vintage Books, 2009), p. 5.

6.
Ibid., p. 246.

7.
Ibid., p. 261.

8.
Rosie Boycott, “Nine Meals from Anarchy—How Britain Is Facing a Very Real Food Crisis,”
Daily Mail
, June 7, 2008, at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024833/Nine-meals-anarchy—Britain-facing-real-food-crisis.html
(accessed August 24, 2011).

9.
Tim Child (manager of St. Werburgh's City Farm), personal interview with the author, Bristol, United Kingdom, September 29, 2010.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Figures based on Allotment Gardens: Food and Health from NSALG website,
http://www.nsalg.org.uk/
.

12.
T. H. Everett and Edgar J. Clisshold,
Victory Backyard Gardens: Simple Rules for Growing Your Own Vegetables with Simple Rules and Charts
(Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1942), p. 3.

13.
Figure sourced from personal website of writer/gardener Brian King, a thirty-year allotment gardener and historian of allotment gardening, at
http://www.bkthisandthat.org.uk/ShortHistoryOfAllotmentshtml.html
.

14.
Press release, National Allotment Week 2010, National Society of Allotment & Leisure Gardeners Limited, August 2010.

15.
Sean Coughlan, “Can You Dig It?” BBC News Magazine, August 11, 2006,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4776325.stm
(accessed August 24, 2011).

16.
Mark Ridsdill Smith, personal interview with the author, London, United Kingdom, September 30, 2010.

17.
Monthly food value tallies are available at Ridsdill Smith's blog at
http://www.verticalveg.org.uk/
.

18.
Matthew Weaver, “Squirrel Meat Flies off of Supermarket's Shelves,”
Guardian
, July 29, 2010,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/29/squirrel-meat-supermarket
(accessed August 25, 2011).

19.
This claim appeared on Thorton's Budgens’ website,
http://www.thorntonsbudgens.com/social-environment/food-from-the-sky
(accessed January 20, 2011).

20.
Azul-Valérie Thomé (cocreator and project leader, Food from the Sky), personal interview with the author, London, United Kingdom, September 30, 2010.

21.
“Compost Centre,” Londonwaste.co.uk,
http://www.londonwaste.co.uk/environment-and-society/compost-centre/
(accessed August 30, 2011).

22.
Azul-Valérie Thomé, personal interview.

23.
Alex Smith (founder and managing director, Alara Wholefoods), personal interview with the author, London, United Kingdom, September 28, 2010.

24.
Ibid.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Mark Prigg, “Ideal Spot for Chateau King's Cross,”
London Evening Standard
, March 16, 2009,
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23662523-ideal-spot-for-chteau-kings-cross.do
(accessed February 12, 2010.)

27.
The information on Alara Vineyard came from my personal interview with Alex Smith, London, United Kingdom, September 28, 2010.

28.
Lucy Baron Thomson (Urban Wine Company), telephone interview with the author, London, United Kingdom, May 31, 2010.

29.
“Heat Island Effect,” United States Environmental Protection Agency,
http://www.epa.gov/heatisland/
(accessed August 25, 2011).

30.
Ibid.

31.
The population of Greater London, the city's administrative catchment, comes from “2010 Mid-Year Population Estimates” (revised November 2011) from the Greater London Authority's website at
http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/publications/society/facts-and-figures/population
(accessed August 29, 2011).

32.
“High Temperatures and the Urban Island Effect,” London Climate Change Partnership,
http://www.london.gov.uk/lccp/ourclimate/overheating.jsp
(accessed August 25, 2011).

33.
This equivalence was arrived at by comparing average daily summer temperatures in London with those of the main wine-growing regions in northern France and Germany.

34.
Harvest statistics can be found at
http://www.urbanwineco.com/theexperience.html
.

35.
Also sourced from the Urban Wine Company's website at
http://www.urbanwineco.com
.

36.
http://www.capitalgrowth.org/
.

37.
Bert Dutka (King's Cross Skip Garden), personal interviews with the author, London, United Kingdom, September 28, 2010.

38.
Paul Richens (King's Cross Skip Garden), personal interviews with the author, London, United Kingdom, September 28, 2010.

39.
Ibid.

40.
The official website for the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 is
http://www.london2012.com/
.

41.
The LOCOG document “For Starters” can be downloaded at
http://www.london2012.com/documents/locog-publications/food-vision.pdf
.

C
HAPTER
8. S
OUTHERN
C
ALIFORNIA AND
L
os
A
NGELES
: A T
ALE OF
T
WO
F
ARMS

1.
G. Scott Thomas, “The Biggest US Metro Areas in 2025,” MSNBC, June 7, 2009,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31130897/ns/business-local_business/t/biggest-us-metro-areas/#.TmEix5h_wSk
(accessed August 19, 2011). Note that the 12.8 million figure for the LA metropolitan area came from actual population figures for 2005, as quoted in this article.

2.
Alexa Delwiche,
The Good Food for All Agenda: Creating a New Regional Foodshed for Los Angeles
(Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force, September 2010), p. 16.

3.
Jonathan Gold, foreword, in Delwiche,
The Good Food for All Agenda
, p. 8.

4.
Michael Ableman,
On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm
(San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998), p. 33.

5.
Michael Ableman, “Feeding the Future,” lecture given on November 17, 2010, at the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. The video of this lecture is available online at
http://clarke.dickinson.edu/michael-ableman/
.

6.
Ableman,
On Good Land
, p. 134.

7.
“Farming on the Edge,” American Farmland Trust,
http://www.farmland.org/resources/fote/default.asp
(accessed May 10, 2011).

8.
Robert Gottlieb, “Showdown at South Central Farm,”
Next American City
, Winter 2007,
http://americancity.org/magazine/article/showdown-at-south-central-farm-gottlieb/
(accessed July 14, 2010).

9.
Ibid.

10.
Tezozomoc, personal interview with the author, Van Nuys, California, June 3, 2010.

11.
Maxine Waters, speech given at the opening of the new South Central Farm, attended by author, June 12, 2010, Buttonwillow, California.

12.
John Quigley, personal interview with the author, Buttonwillow, California, June 12, 2010.

13.
Ibid.

C
HAPTER
9. V
ANCOUVER
: C
ANADA'S
L
EFT
C
OAST

1.
“Vancouver 2020—A Bright Green Future” is a downloadable document that can be found online at
http://vancouver.ca/greencapital/index.htm
(accessed November 10, 2011). The figures in this paragraph are all from this source.

2.
“Survey and Market Assessment for Backyard Composting and Grasscycling,” Mustel Group Market Research for the City of Vancouver, May 2007,
http://vancouver.ca/fs/bid/bidopp/RFP/documents/PS10088AttachmentA-CityofVancouverBackyardComposting.pdf
(accessed February 11, 2011).

3.
Michael Levenston, personal interview with the author, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 19, 2010.

4.
City Farmer's original website (
http://www.cityfarmer.org/
), remains online as an archive of materials posted between its 1994 launch and January 1,2008. This is a great resource for anyone looking to trace the timeline of various trends in urban agriculture. City Farmer's new site is located at
http://www.cityfarmer.info/
.

5.
David Tracey, personal interview with the author, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 20, 2010.

6.
Seann Dory (SOLEfood farm manager), personal interview with the author, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 21, 2010.

7.
Quote pulled from
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/socialplanning/initiatives/foodpolicy/policy/history.htm
(accessed May 14, 2011).

8.
Herb Barbolet, personal interview with the author, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 21, 2010.

9.
Curtis Stone (owner/operator/farmer, Green City Acres), personal interview with the author, Kelowna, British Columbia, September 12, 2010.

10.
“What's SPIN,”
http://www.spinfarming.com/whatsSpin/
(accessed February 11, 2011).

11.
Green City Acres’ website is at
http://www.greencityacres.com/
.

12.
SPIN Farming's official website is
http://www.spinfarming.com/
.

13.
Wally Satzewich, telephone interview with the author, January 20, 2011.

14.
Roxanne Christensen, telephone interview with the author, January 21, 2011.

15.
Wally Satzewich, telephone interview with the author, January 20, 2011.

C
HAPTER
10. T
ORONTO
: C
ABBAGETOWN
2.0

1.
The figures for the percentage of Toronto homes where some food is grown in the yard comes from Erik Millstone and Tim Lang,
The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), p. 54. The statistics on the number of community gardens in Toronto was sourced from Theresa Boyle, “City Sees Boom in Urban Gardening,”
Toronto Star
, May 22, 2011. Article can be found online at
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/995391—city-sees-boom-in-urban-gardening
(accessed May 26, 2011).

2.
Boyle, “City Sees Boom in Urban Gardening.”

3.
Debbie Field, personal interview with the author, Toronto, Ontario, October 8, 2010.

4.
“Toronto's Racial Diversity,” City of Toronto website,
http://www.toronto.ca/toronto_facts/diversity.htm
(accessed August 24, 2011).

5.
Ibid.

6.
Field refers to statistical work done by Toronto food writer Darcy Higgins in her personal interview of October 8, 2010. This figure can also be found at
http://pushfoodforward.com/category/topics/Farmers%27%20markets%?page=6
(accessed August 24, 2011).

7.
“Greenbelt Protection,” Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing,
http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page187.aspx
(accessed March 1, 2011).

8.
The Stop Community Food Centre's website is
http://www.thestop.org/
.

9.
Wayne Roberts, personal interview with the author, Toronto, Ontario, October 7, 2010.

10.
John H., personal interview with the author, Toronto, Ontario, October 7, 2010.

11.
This figure, accurate as of May 26, 2011, was sourced from
http://www.torontochickens.com/Toronto_Chickens/Where_are_chickens_legal.html
.

12.
Lorraine Johnson,
City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing
(Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2010).

13.
Lorraine Johnson, personal interview with the author, Toronto, Ontario, October 8, 2010.

14.
Laura Reinsborough, telephone interview with the author, April 27, 2011.

15.
“About,” Not Far from the Tree,
http://www.notfarfromthetree.org/
about (accessed April 27, 2011).

16.
“Mission Statement,” FoodForward's website and “fruit counter,”
http://foodforward.org/about/
(accessed May 27, 2011).

17.
“About Us,” Portland Fruit Tree Project,
http://portlandfruit.org/
(accessed May 27, 2011).

18.
Tim Kitchen, telephone interview with the author, January 20, 2011.

19.
Darrin Nordahl, telephone interview with the author, September 8, 2010.

20.
Darrin Nordahl,
Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture.
(Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009).

21.
Darrin Nordahl, “Smart Governments Grow Produce for the People,”
http://www.grist.org/article/food-smart-city-governments-grow-produce-for-the-people
, August 5, 2010 (accessed May 27, 2011).

22.
Wayne Roberts, “Eat this Recession,” Alternatives online journal, October 15, 2009,
http://www.alternativesjournal.ca/articles/eat-this-recession
(accessed May 19,2011).