Sibella Kraus, a 2009 Growing Green Awards finalist, founded the San Francisco Public Market Collaborative and the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture. Ms. Kraus is currently the president of Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE), a non-profit organization she established in 2001 and also directs the Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions program at the University of California-Berkeley.
The urban-rural dichotomy doesn't work anymore. There's a connotation in the words ‘urban' and ‘rural' that suggests a neat line between the geographies of city and countryside. As a largely urban culture, we seem to need to imagine a timeless bucolic landscape as counterpoint to time-bound hard-scape city life. We also tend to imagine farmers as a stereotype - older guys more at home on tractors than with technology.
But drive out of the Bay Area in almost any direction, and it's difficult to tell where ‘urban' ends and ‘rural' begins. Many areas - Santa Clara Valley, Livermore Valley, Suisun Valley, Santa Rosa plain - look like a jigsaw puzzle of development being filled in; the dynamic ‘figure' of urbanization on the inert ‘field' of passive farmland.
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May 5, 2009 
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