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August 29th, 2005: The Diggable City Project Wins the Oregon APA Student Achievement Award
The Diggable City's report has won the Student Achievement in Planning Award from the Oregon chapter of the American Planning Association (APA). The project now goes on to compete for national recognition from the APA.

This project, titled "The Diggable City: Making Urban Agriculture a Planning Priority", focused on analyzing opportunities for using vacant public land to expand urban, sustainable agricultural uses within the Portland area. Produced in response to a City Council resolution, The Diggable City report won praise from Mayor Tom Potter and several city commissioners including Dan Saltzman, a long-time supporter of local and regional food systems.

PINE Film Festival Premiere
PSU 5th Avenue Cinema
Saturday, January 28, 2006
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
 
The Diggable City: Exploring the Potential for Urban Agriculture – 24 min.
 
The Diggable City, a PSU Master of Urban and Regional Planning workshop project prepared for the City of Portland, Oregon, introduced a land inventory containing specific sites of publicly-owned properties where opportunities may exist to expand community gardens and other forms of urban agriculture. The Diggable City: Exploring the Potential for Urban Agriculture serves to educate a wider audience on current trends toward localized food production. Through the lens of various urban farm projects and numerous in-depth interviews, the documentary depicts a compelling story about how the local community is currently engaged with this peculiar land use.
 
Directed by Kevin Balmer and Amanda Rhoads
Narration by Paul Rosenbloom