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06/22/2009

Beating Flowers Into Plowshares?

Big thanks to Lisa Bowden and Kore Press for asking me to write an essay about the transition from art to... whatever 21st Century Plowshare is becoming. You should go read it.

Seriously, things are getting interesting in Bed Stuy. While there are just about zero wildflowers, there is talk about starting a nonprofit whose goal is to ensure that there is no such thing as vacant land in Bed Stuy--that every single lot is either turned into a community garden or interim-farmed.

Right now this is mostly just talk, but I don't doubt the seriousness of the people I am working with and of course, I do believe in followthrough. We may fail, but something will happen. This blog is nowhere near dead. I'll be writing more about this Urban Farm Syndicate... whatever it becomes.

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I don't think you will fail. Is a normal thing to have doubts but i think in the end you will have success.

Posted by: Asigurare Casco | 08/24/2011 at 11:32 AM

trust me, you will win!

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