We’ve started this blog to track the progress of FarmWorks, a development project in St. Louis that integrates aquaponics and urban farming with transitional housing, education and job training, and green business development.
FarmWorks
We’ve started this blog to track the progress of FarmWorks, a development project in St. Louis that integrates aquaponics and urban farming with transitional housing, education and job training, and green business development.
This is wonderful news for my home town and my new home in Milwaukee! Sweet Water, both Sweet Water Organics and the Sweet Water Foundation, has changed the “feel” of old Milwaukee, especially for bright young people eager to help transition us from “rustbelt” to a “green belt city,” from an industrial to an organic city. IBM and the Mayor now talk of a Milwaukee “renaissance.” Farmworks will advance a St. Louis Renaissance, and, especially, a North St. Louis Renaissance! James J. Godsil, St. Louis U. 1967 BA, 1969 MA, co-founder Sweet Water Organics, The Sweet Water Foundation. Happy to correspond: godsil.james@gmail.com.
Dear Craig,
Godsil told me about the tremendous work that you are doing in the St. Louis area … work that is very close to my heart, too — as a person involved with village-based community development in India. I had no idea that St. Louis was his hometown! Having spent the best years of life as a graduate student at University of Missouri-Columbia, just a hop and a skip away, I would very much like to be connected and networked with your FarmWorks. You can see some of our rural development interventions at our Sankalpa Research Center webpage at [www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/]. Well, I’ll talk to you later. Cheerio!
Subra.