This is a personal labor of love for founder Eve Sibley, who launched the website in time for Slow Food Nation, held over Labor Day weekend in several venues around San Francisco. She traveled across the country to pass out fliers and spread the word about her website in the Civic Center outside of the Victory Garden, encouraging conversation with the opening line, "Excuse me, do you have a garden?"; When she hears, "Well I have a few containers on my window sill", she happily hands over her flier, which reads "Put your garden on the map!"

The World Food Garden website features a discussion forum, space for showcasing your own food garden and posting photos, a reference database, and an upcoming Garden Calculator that synthesizes climate condition data for a given location with sustainable design principles. The resulting calculation renders location-specific recommendations for biodynamic food gardening on any scale, from one square foot on up. Become a Garden Warrior is a list of simple and elegant action items that should appeal to everyone on some level. The website also includes the World Food Garden Map, quite like a Green Map, that allows users to post the location of their own garden, the location of community gardens, and locations of seed distribution centers around the globe. Seed exchanges are freely encouraged through the "Support a Garden- Send Seeds" option.

After talking with Eve for a few minutes, it becomes clear that she's in this for the inspiration. She says she was inspired by the amazing proliferation of communications infrastructures that have sprouted up in the past few years, like Google Maps and MySpace. With this website, the focus is, according to Eve, "empowering individuals through this direct philanthropic network to have seed exchanges and sponsor gardens." It's global gardening, in a way, with information flying to and fro, with a simultaneous emphasis on using the resources immediately on hand. Eve is planning on posting the Garden Calculator upon her return to the Carolinas, talking gardens and spreading the seeds for this website along the way.

World Food Garden Map
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