-The Slow Cook discusses the implications of bottled water;
-Mr Brown Thumb makes DIY paper tube seeders for direct seed sowing;
-Jac Smit, the “Father of Urban Agriculture”, has a new Web site;
-Down on the Urban Farm points out SharingBackyards.com, a matching service, pairing people with ag know-how but no space and people with space but no know-how;
-Campbell’s partners with Future Farmers of America to make available 22.5 million seeds of their famous tomato;
-Bizarre Chicago weather to have lasting effects on flora and fauna;
-From the Spring 2009 issue of Next American City, an interview with Dickson Despommier, one of the pioneers of vertical farming;
-A new book, Victory Gardens 2007+, re-imagines the original Victory Gardens wartime program. Edited by Amy Franceschini, founder of the art collective Future Farmers in San Francisco.