Urban Ag & Gardening BoF

(Very raw notes by Chach Sikes)

Ben Stalling
* permaculture design
* applied ecology
* uses permaculture design principles in web
* from Kansas

David Eads

Gregg Short

Matt Sorenson
* @emjayess
* Fargo - wife is foodie, foodie by proxy
* floods in fargo
* half vegetables from CSA farm minnesota
* transformed corn & soy as local
* http://sharedearth.com

chach
* codeforamerica.org / foodshed project (
http://foodshed.codeforamerica.org)
* last year drupal open garden project
* organizing on behalf of zoey kroll @edibleoffice / hayesvalleyfarm.com

someone mentioned front porch stories

JR Logan
* jrlogan
* jr_logan drupal
* United way greater new haven
* chair of board of new haven land trust
* non profit 50 community gardens
* drupal site based on d6
* profiles of gardens w/ gmaps - plots where they are viewed by neighborhood
* experimented with documenting garden's needs to have collective action around those
* participation
* low technical competence in audience
* representatives for 15 gardens
* super district coordinator
* schools in gardens a tremendous push & attention & grant writing
* school resource center
* 6 large meetings with all players in urban ag
* farmers markets system - health -
* long process to decide
* give children experience with food
* garden in every school
* move curriculum into existing system

* making arguments for food
* grant writing - in research
* reduce crime
* datasets to overlay - correlation often persuasive
* lifeboat gardens
* kansas - supporting the local economy - not working

chris - live in richmond indiana
* food coop on campus
* 100 mile radius potluck
* doing something fun with it
* transition initiative training

Jeff Schuler
* jeffschuler (drupal)
* drupal freelancer - invested in local food movement
* foreclosure crisis - created room for gardens popping up in vacant lands
Cleveland
* educational site: http://neofoodweb.org (northeast ohio)
* regional local food assessment
* information gathering device
* doing a lot of video stuff
* site for gardens
* 120 gardens around cleveland
* google maps based

discussion:
* open street map and open layers
* question on how to feed into open street map database

project: foodtree http://foodtree.com/

talking about open street map
the "wikipedia of maps" anyone can add nodes and features

talking about playing with gmap
dataset of all gardens

talking about open street map

infojunkie
amazon mirrors data on s3
mirror of all of wikipedia as RDF - linked and open
people can contribute to it
GIS datasets out there

* identification of assets

* garden content type
* square footage - as a metric

* urban taxonomy
* urban farm
* community garden
* school garden

* creating different views
* major cities putting in gardens
* doing things like all square feet of gardening
* how crime overlays

* wiki people generating data & fields aggregated

* bio region - inputs outputs & production (david's eads uncle)
* being aware of those in other parts of country
* discrete bioregions

* dbpedia dataset

* the foodtree - the global food map
* open green map - drupal site : http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/home

* standard format - to be better prepared with rolling up data
* friday labs @codeforamerica (time to work on projects)
* inconsistent data gathering as an issue

* st.louis - change of community and change of value
* as correlated with gardens