Posts from — January 2008

Heather showed me a new composting initiative taking place at the Vancouver Aquarium. Eighty percent of waste produced at the cafeteria including plates, cups, cutlery, napkins and food waste, goes to a compost facility in Metro Vancouver. A City Farmer video.

Link to City Farmer TV.

Another comix style “how to” flyer from the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden. This one shows you how to worm compost in an apartment. City Farmer teaches hundreds of people every year in Wormshops subsidized by the City of Vancouver.

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City Farmer has produced a 2 page flyer on how to make compost in a backyard bin. This comix style edition is based on our popular web site photo slide show. City Farmer runs Vancouver’s Compost Demonstration Garden.

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“The garden offers a great many solutions, practical as well as philosophical, to the whole problem of eating well. My own vegetable garden is modest in scale – a densely planted patch in the front yard only about twenty feet by ten – but it yields an astonishing cornucopia of produce, so much so that during the summer months we discontinue our CSA box and buy little but fruit from the farmers’ market. And though we live on a postage-stamp city lot, there’s room enough for a couple of fruit trees too: a lemon, a fig and a persimmon. To the problem of being able to afford high-quality organic produce the garden offers the most straightforward solution: The food you grow yourself is fresher than any you can buy, and it costs nothing but an hour or two of work each week plus the price of a few packets of seed.”

Link to Michael Pollan’s website and book.

“Farm plots amidst apartment blocks in Chaozhou. A beautiful addition to an otherwise drab urban scene.” Photo from Flickr by JesseWarren.

Chaozhou, literally “Tide Prefecture”; (usually spelled Chiu Chow in the US and Hong Kong), also widely known by its Postal map spelling Teochew, is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, People’s Republic of China.

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Mike Clark of Onni called me a couple of weeks ago looking for a group to manage a new community garden his company had built on their property in downtown Vancouver. Now, this is a one of a kind story — a developer makes available gardens on vacant land until such time as that land is ready for building construction to begin. How often have we seen empty lots sit vacant for years while nothing happens. A City Farmer video.

Link to City Farmer TV.

JTR_0280.JPG, originally uploaded by eamesd.

“In Basel, Switzerland, the metro area – this magic jewel of small farms and gardens — livestock even!”

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Shannon Walsh-Wrightson, Executive Chef at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in downtown Vancouver, gives Janine and I a tour of this rooftop herb garden, which has been used by the professional kitchen staff at the hotel for over 10 years. Learn how he and his fellow cooks incorporate fresh herbs and fruit from the garden into their dishes. City Farmer TV.

Link to City Farmer TV.

More Urban Ag, originally uploaded by drippin_pitch.

Fulong is a town in Northern Taiwan.

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Urban Agriculture, originally uploaded by drippin_pitch.

City gardens in Fulong, Northern Taiwan.

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