David Homa and Eli Cayer stand in the permaculture garden behind the Urban Farm Fermentory in Portland.

Urban Farm Fermentory

By Avery Yale Kamila
The Portland Press Herald
July 14, 2010

Excerpt:

Even a small patch of earth in a neglected industrial area can become an oasis of food production.

That’s one of the lessons to be learned at the new Urban Farm Fermentory located on Anderson Street in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood. Tucked in back of a single-story former warehouse and hidden from view by a jungle of Japanese knotweed, a greenhouse and a container garden grow lush and verdant with the fullness of midsummer. Here, tomatoes ripen and lavender blooms along with cilantro plants.

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Moonstar visits a terrace with a veggie garden

Moonstar Kaur Doad visits the home of Meenakshi and Dinesh, a couple who enjoy growing their own vegetables organically on their terrace, and share great tips with us in this video.

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Simple formula converts yards and vacant lots into thousands of dollars worth of food

BusinessWire
July 13, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – Figuring out how much money can be made farming on slivers of land is getting easier thanks to a “calculator” now available for free download from the SPIN-Farming website. SPIN stands for small plot intensive.

“Growing and selling fresh, safe, healthy, local food to urban neighbors is valuable grass roots economic development in locations that seem unlikely for agriculture, but can be highly efficient production units that deliver what consumers want—and need.”

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The Farm Truck from Holton Farms on one of its 22 stops in Manhattan. Photo by Holton Farms.

Holton Farms

By Lauren Shockey
New York Times
Jully 12, 2010

Excerpt:

It was only a matter of time before two of New York’s biggest culinary fads — food trucks and Greenmarket fare — united. As of May, the Farm Truck from Holton Farms has roamed the city’s streets, stocked with the Vermont farm’s pickling cucumbers, radishes and yellow squash, along with other regional products from up north, like Walpole Creamery’s raw-milk maple walnut ice cream and Vermont Coffee Company’s fair-trade, organic beans.

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