Tanimura & Antle Acquires Green City Growers
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Jessie Banhazl
3y ago
Tanimura & Antle & Boston, Massachusetts based, Green City Growers Announce New Partnership & Acquisition Furthering their joint commitment to providing communities with education and engagement with healthy, fresh produce SALINAS, Ca. (March 9th, 2021) – Employee owned grower-shipper, Tanimura & Antle and Boston, Massachusetts based, Green City Growers announced today Tanimura & Antle’s investment as the majority shareholder and new partner of Green City Growers.  The merger of the two companies is based on a common commitment and passion to provide communities, orga ..read more
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An Agrihood in Your Hood?
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Jessie Banhazl
3y ago
Agrihoods Promote Farm-to-Table Living and Sustainability Communities dedicated to sustainable, fresh, and local produce have been popping up across the U.S. to provide Americans access to a simpler life without the hardships of traditional agriculture. They’re called agrihoods, and there are now over 200 spanning 28 states. Many developers are anticipating these neighborhoods will become the favored trend in master communities.  The goal of agrihoods is to combine real estate and food, centering the neighborhood around community and health with shared common spaces and access to fresh fo ..read more
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Urban Farming in Paris
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Claire Davies
4y ago
Green City Growers’ CEO & Founder, Jessie Banhazl, reports from the road in Paris on her Eisenhower Fellowship. Learn more about her program objectives, and check out her previous posts from Swedish Cities, Gothenburg, Berlin,and Munich. After leaving Sweden, my last stop on my EF Journey was Paris, France. I was excited about this stop well before taking off for my trip, as I had been following the trajectory of the city’s urban farming boom since 2016. Paris was the second-largest city on my trip, with a population of over 2 million. (The largest city I visited was Berlin, population 4 m ..read more
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An Interview with Rie Macchiarolo, Design & Project Manager
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by Claire Davies
4y ago
How did you get into farming? I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, surrounded by dairy farms. As a young queer person in rural “dairy land” Pennsylvania, I struggled to feel comfortable in a rural area that was very conservative. I believed that all farmers were conservative people. Then I started getting interested in cooperative living, and I spent two years living in an intentional community in rural Virginia on 450 acres of land with 100 people. That was my first introduction to farming. I learned about milking cows, sustainable farming, permaculture, and cooperative living. I loved working i ..read more
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Urban Farming in Swedish Cities
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by Claire Davies
4y ago
Green City Growers’ CEO & Founder, Jessie Banhazl, reports from the road in Sweden on her Eisenhower Fellowship. Learn more about her program objectives, and check out her previous posts from Gothenburg, Berlin ,and  Munich   After leaving Gothenburg, I continued my journey to Sweden’s other largest cities- visiting Stockholm, Malmö, Uppsala, and Lund, all in a whirlwind week. I am still digesting the wealth of knowledge that was bestowed upon me, but I will do my best to summarize what I’ve learned. In all 5 cities I visited, it was clear to me that community-oriented urban gardening was ..read more
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An Interview with Carissa Unger, Production Farmer
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Claire Davies
4y ago
How did you get into farming? I got interested in farming when I was ten or eleven years old. My whole family moved out to the country, and my dad started a large garden that produced food for my family to eat in the summer. I am the youngest sibling and my dad would always say that I was closest to the ground—which meant that I was the best person for picking the beans, weeding the corn, harvesting the corn and planting seeds—even on hot July days. We had to carry water to the farm before my dad had installed sprinklers on the property—which took two years. I never went to summer camp; I wou ..read more
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Jessie’s EF Journey Objectives
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Claire Davies
4y ago
This blog is written by GCG Founder & CEO, Jessie Banhazl For 5 weeks, I will be travelling through Germany, Sweden, and France to learn more about how other countries approach urban farming through an Eisenhower Fellowship . I am so thankful for this amazing opportunity, and I hope to that you all can learn along with me as I go. Here is a little more information about my fellowship goals: What I am hoping to learn I am seeking to understand the mechanisms that will lead to urban agriculture becoming a sustainable, robust industry in the US. There is huge potential for urban farming to b ..read more
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Urban Farming in Paris
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Claire Davies
4y ago
Green City Growers’ CEO & Founder, Jessie Banhazl, reports from the road in Paris on her Eisenhower Fellowship. Learn more about her program objectives, and check out her previous posts from Swedish Cities, Gothenburg, Berlin,and Munich. After leaving Sweden, my last stop on my EF Journey was Paris, France. I was excited about this stop well before taking off for my trip, as I had been following the trajectory of the city’s urban farming boom since 2016. Paris was the second-largest city on my trip, with a population of over 2 million. (The largest city I visited was Berlin, population 4 m ..read more
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Urban Farming in Munich
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Claire Davies
4y ago
Green City Growers’ CEO & Founder, Jessie Banhazl, reports from the road on her Eisenhower Fellowship, taking place from September 9th- October 13th. Learn more about her program objectives, and check out her previous post from Berlin. The continuation of my Germany trip from Berlin to Munich was well worth it. I was warned by my Berlin contacts about how “conservative” Munich would be compared to Berlin. What I found, though, was a variety of progressive organizations who very clearly saw the benefits and importance of growing food in a more sustainable way and doing it as a business. Ger ..read more
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GCG Awarded 2019 USDA Farm-to-School Grant
Green City Growers | Urban Farming Blog
by Claire Davies
4y ago
Just Announced: Green City Growers Awarded USDA Farm-to-School Grant July 17th, 2019 Green City Growers, in partnership with the Boston Public Schools, BPS Facilities Management, Friends of the Boston Schoolyards, and the BPS STRIVE program, are pleased to announce they are the recipient of a 2019 Farm-to-School grant from the USDA. Thanks to this generous grant, Green City Growers will work in collaboration with BPS Facilities Management to provide BPS STRIVE special needs students to hands-on vocational training. Skills taught will include building agricultural infrastructure, crop cultivat ..read more
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