Yesterday the new Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, announced an initiative to create a community garden at each USDA facility worldwide. Vilsack is calling these gardens “The People’s Gardens” in honor of Abraham Lincoln who had referred to the USDA as “The People’s Department”.
Vilsack stated that these gardens will promote “green concepts” like low-water usage landscaping […]

Many of us who working at the community level in Oakland to push for entrepreneurial solutions to the many economic, social and health needs of our communities have known for a long time that Oakland presents strong retail market opportunities that can support local economic development and job creation. But it appears that many key […]