Photo from ‘Cowfiles African Gardens’.

From: ‘Ideas that will catch on here.’
July 12, 2008, BBC

“Another fantastic idea I picked up – which could make its way onto my allotment before long – is the keyhole veg bed. This is a raised bed with bells on: it’s about 1m (3′6″) high, and the outer bed, where the vegetables are growing, slopes down from a central hollow column. There’s an access path to the column (giving the bed a “keyhole” shape viewed from above) and inside it is what amounts to a compost bin, held in with hessian: you fill it with kitchen waste, stable manure, grass clippings – whatever you’d put on your compost heap.

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Photo Credit: Philip Solman

Farmer in the Sky
By Kimberley Fehr
Spring 2008
Edible Vancouver Magazine

“This year he has expanded to about 12 gardens and almost 8,000 square feet of land, thanks to a Vancouver Sun article last autumn that sent his phone ringing off the hook. Apparently, a lot of Vancouverites love the idea of someone else farming their backyard. Offers of acreages in Surrey, huge yards in South Vancouver — suddenly Teulon had his choice of prime farmland. He sat down and did the math, looked at the practicalities and came to the conclusion: anything farther than five kilometers (about three miles) just didn’t make sense.

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