Tag: farming
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Urban farming would help New Port Richey
Editor’s Note: Read the following column carefully. It outlines a vision for a sustainable, neighborly, and food-secure New Port Richey through Urban Farming support. It reads like it was written for this morning’s news cycle. The surprise? This article published in the Pasco Times nearly a decade ago, on May 20, 2016. The City did…
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6/9/25 -West Pasco Urban Farm Report
The One & Only West Pasco Urban Farm Report June 9, 2025 New Port Richey FarmNet Committed to a healthy community, food sovereignty, and agrarian ideals Join us at Ordinance One in downtown New Port Richey for Evening Farmers’ Market – June 17, 5:30 to 7:30 Weather Report Late Spring heat and arid conditions have…
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Fleet Farming in Orlando
by Monica Starr June 2022 Fleet Farming is an Orlando-based non-profit urban agriculture project that transforms lawns into productive micro farms and gardens. Creating localized food systems in areas without access to fresh produce, it converts underutilized lawn space to edible gardens at schools, community centers, and affordable housing units. Besides addressing food-security issues, Fleet…
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USF Students Learn to Harvest in New Port Richey Gardens
Dirt was flying this Sunday as USF students visited Friendship Farm & Fare’s “South Garden” located in New Port Richey to help out with the Fall harvest. The students are part of a USF group called FARM–Food Activists Revolutionizing Meals–whose mission is to educate people about local farms and to learn about what those local farms…