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Burlington entered the world of urban agriculture for reasons totally different from those that inspired Havana and Detroit. Havana’s efforts at urban agriculture began with the prospect of starvation; Detroit’s began with the prospect of abandonment; Burlington’s, according to the city’s official report on the subject, began in 2010 with a chicken.
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- 1.
Alison Nihart, William Robb, and Jessica Hyman, Burlington Urban Agriculture Task Force: Report to Burlington City Council, September 2012.
- 2.
Ibid. p. 9.
- 3.
Ibid. p. 11.
- 4.
Roger Griffith, What a Way to Live—and Make a Living: The Lyman P. Wood Story, Charlotte, VT: In Brief Press, 1994. pp. 1–7.
- 5.
Ibid. pp. 53–60.
- 6.
Like the Cubans when the special Period ended; note that Detroit supplied the cars.
- 7.
Griffith, op. cit. p. 70.
- 8.
Ibid. p. 150.
- 9.
Lyman Wood, quoted in Griffith, op.cit., p. 164.
- 10.
Wood, quoted by Griffith, op.cit. p. 180.
- 11.
Ibid. p. 181. Jim Flint puts the number closer to 1000.
- 12.
Ibid pp. 185–191.
- 13.
Ibid. p.223.
- 14.
An account of these gardens, “35 Years and Still Growing: the history of Burlington Area Community Gardens 1972–2007,” was written by one of the founders, Jim Flint; it is available from the Vermont Community Garden Network, North Street, Burlington, VT.
- 15.
Maree Gaetani, “Our Backyard: The Intervale,” http://www.gardeners.com/how-to/intervale/5446.html
- 16.
Burlington Free Press, Saturday April 5, 2014, pp. 1B–3B.
- 17.
Deborah Fallows, “Vermont Report: Shaping the Soul of a School,” The Atlantic, October 9, 2013.
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- 19.
The Burlington Free Press, Burlington’s local newspaper, published a special section on Community Gardens on Sunday, May 20, 2018. Lauren Banister, “Community Gardens Sprouted in Burlington,” History Space Burlington Free Press, Sunday May 20, 2018.
- 20.
Melissa Pasanen, “‘No One’s Doing Anything Like This’: At this Shelburne farm, you can buy a coffee, artisan bread and of course, vegetables,” Burlington Free Press, Friday, May 27, 2016, pp. 1D–4D.
- 21.
Sally Pollak, “‘They’re Old School’: O Bread rising in Shelburne for four decades and counting,” Burlington Free Press, Friday, May 20, 2016, pp. 1A, 1D–4D.
- 22.
Lettie Stratton, “It’s Spreadsheet Season on the Farm,” Shelburne News January 21, 2016, pp. 1–14.
- 23.
Jess Aloe, “Pot Biz Carries On: Despite defeat, entrepreneurs prepare for legalization,” Burlington Free Press, Thursday, May 19, 2016, pp. 1A–4A.
- 24.
Sally Pollak, “Food Truck on a Mission: Delivery of free meals to fight hunger in the county is unique,” Burlington Free Press, Saturday, May 28, 2016, pp. 1A–4A.
- 25.
Ibid. p. 13.
- 26.
Joel Banner Baird, “Saffron Harvest Begins in Vermont,” Burlington Free Press, Saturday, November 5, 2016, pp. 2A–3A.
- 27.
Nicole Higgins DeSmet, “Farmers Market vendors settle in at UVM,” Burlington Free Press Saturday, January 14, 2017, pp. 1A–3A.
- 28.
Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy, 1982, 2005.
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Wes Enzinna, “The Rojava Experiment,” The New York Times Magazine November 29, 2015, pp. 40ff. “A dream of Utopia in Hell: In the ruins of northern Syria, a generation of young Kurds is fighting ISIS with guns and ideas.”
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Newton, L. (2020). Burlington, Vermont. In: Urban Agriculture and Community Values. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39244-4_3
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