Vancouver’s City Farm Boy Brings Local Food Even Closer to Home

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.

Teulon uses a van to take the produce to the markets and pick up heavy items like soil and fertilizer, but he aims to do most of the garden maintenance on his bike, and farming gardens within five kilometers is ideal. Ultimately Teulon turned down many of the offers, because having too many gardens and covering too much distance would defeat the purpose of running his own business: spending quality time with his three-year old son.”

Read the whole article here at Edible Vancouver Magazine.

City Farm Boy website here.