The blog Treehugger had several posts this week that directly relate to our work here at the Urban Aquaculture Center. The featured Milwaukee’s first rooftop CSA, looked at the over fishing of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, and looked at Urban Permaculture.
Urban areas leave little room for gardening and greenery. Community gardens and green roofs give city dwellers the opportunity to enjoy greenery and gardening and now a rooftop farmer in Milwaukee started Milwaukee’s first rooftop CSA.
Shares are now available in Milwaukee’s first rooftop CSA. The extensive variety of organic fruits, vegetables, and herbs are being grown atop The Community Building and Restoration Building just south of the city’s Capitol for $800 per share. The CSA season will run longer than most because of the community greenhouse also erected to continue the harvest season for tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, and cauliflower into the winter season. From planting strawberry plants to planting numeorus rows of carrots, transplanting tomato plants, and starting new seedlings, it’s all being documented in the Roof Farmer Blog.
A sample CSA box would include two small heads of some combination of buttercrunch, royal red, or simpson lettuce; one bag of spinach, and one bag of spring salad mix (composed of swiss chard, kale, arugula, and a variety of baby lettuces). But as with any CSA, this changes weekly.
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna will be Gone in 3 Years
At current rates of catch, driving up by increasing demand from Japan for use in sushi, Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks will be gone within 3 years. That’s the word from WWF:
On the eve of the two-month Mediterranean fishing season opening, WWF is saying that unless catches are dramatically reduced (as in a complete halt to fishing in May and June), spawning bluefin tuna will entirely disappear by 2012.
Exploring Permaculture in the Big City
Everything in a permaculture project should ideally contribute to the larger whole. Recapping an earlier discussion about lawns, one participant said, “Grass doesn’t have to be wasted space–get a sheep!” Because who would want a boring green patch when you could have a bounty of cheese instead?
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