#FoodSecurity

Rick Burnette

Oh, the Food You'll Grow! (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)

Cultivate Abundance has many local partners that join with us in food solidarity. Some were born and raised in Southwest Florida. But...

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Gardens That Result in Food… And Community

Awareness of community gardening in North America has exploded over the past two decades. Often associated with urban gardening in the...

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Testing the Container Garden Concept

Bernabela, Amalia and several other Immokalee women made it very clear that local farmworker families often struggle to put nutritious...

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Learning Together: First steps to achieving community-sourced nutrition in Immokalee

During Holy Week, Miguel Estrada and Ruth DeYoe of Misión Peniel arranged for Ellen and I to meet with 13 Immokalee women. From...

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Wanted: Positive Deviants (Part 1)

Everywhere that I’ve engaged in agricultural development work, I’ve benefited from at least one farmer or gardener who served as a model...

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A Harvest of Hope

Since we moved onto our property over four years ago, we have planted at least 30 types of tropical fruit-producing plants. Many, such...

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The Risky Business of Gardening

While running an errand in south Fort Myers I noticed a garden patch. Squeezed between a canal and an apartment building, this plot...

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The Immokalee Way

The Thai-Myanmar border and Immokalee, Florida are half a world away from each other, but both locations have a strong pull. In 1994,...

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