{"id":223,"date":"2008-11-03T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T18:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-11-03T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:13:29","slug":"cabbages-and-compost-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/cabbages-and-compost-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabbages and compost in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passed on from the master gardeners’ list-serv.\u00a0Hey, it worked for Old MacDonald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dean’s Forum: Urban Farming Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 5th
\n12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
\nUIC School of Public Health<\/a>\u00a0Auditorium<\/p>\n

A presentation by:
\nDickson Despommier<\/a>, PhD
\nMailman School of Public Health, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Local Panelists<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rodger Cooley,\u00a0Heifer International<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Erika Allen<\/a>,\u00a0Growing Power<\/a><\/p>\n

Orrin Williams,\u00a0Growing Home<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Despommier’s presentation will focus on his concept of the Vertical\u00a0Farm<\/a>, a multistory indoor farming facility that allows for year-round\u00a0supplies of food for its population. In conjunction, the local panelists\u00a0will discuss various projects in the city of Chicago focused on urban\u00a0farming, vermaculture and aquaculture.<\/p>\n

FREE ADMISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

ADDED: \u00a0Despommier on the Colbert Report!<\/a><\/p>\n

(“And you could power the grid, of the farm, by hooking generators up to the customers and use the energy of them patting themselves on the back!”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passed on from the master gardeners’ list-serv.\u00a0Hey, it worked for Old MacDonald. Dean’s Forum: Urban Farming Solutions Wednesday, November 5th 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. UIC School of Public Health\u00a0Auditorium A presentation by: Dickson Despommier, PhD Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Local Panelists Rodger Cooley,\u00a0Heifer International Erika Allen,\u00a0Growing Power Orrin Williams,\u00a0Growing Home Dr. Despommier’s … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42],"tags":[44,314,43],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-urban-agriculture","tag-dickson-despommier","tag-urban-agriculture","tag-vertical-farm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}