Here’s The Dirt – Guide To Composting – GVRD (Metro Vancouver) – 1990

City Farmer has been promoting home composting at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden for almost 20 years. This video was created in 1990 by Marianne Pengelly for the GVRD (our regional government) and shows how we spoke about composting then. Our City Farmer staff at the time included Gill Elcock, Lorenzo Mele and Susan Ray.

Some of our instructions have changed over the years. Current information is available from our Compost Hotline: 604.736.2250 in Vancouver.

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RUAF Update # 11
May 2009

1. THE RUAF-CITIES FARMING FOR THE FUTURE PROGRAMME

The RUAF Cities Farming for the Future programme ended in 2008 with very positive results. Activities of RUAF continued in most of the cities in the follow up programme From Seed to Table (see below). The final report, has been finalised and a summary can be found at www.ruaf.org soon.

Some of the overall results of the activities that have been implemented over the past period include:

- Twenty universities and other educational centres that were involved in RUAF-CFF have taken initiatives to include urban agriculture in their regular programme and are developing curricula and training modules, using the RUAF training materials as a starting point. In addition capacity has been built in urban agriculture of in total 206 trainers from 17 countries of which about one third are women.

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