“Tons of these urban farming families have kids”

By Michael Harthorne
KOMO Communities Reporter
December 29th 2010
Excerpt:

Nina Finley washes one of her chickens. She is starting Seattle’s first 4-H Club. Courtesy of Nina Finley/4-H.
At 9 years old, Wallingford resident and Seattle Academy student Nina Finley decided she wanted to be a farmer and, by necessity, an urban farmer. The rest of the city finally caught up to her.

During the past seven years, while she was commuting to and from the suburbs to show her rabbits, chickens and ducks at 4-H events, Finley noticed an explosion in the number of livestock, vegetable patches and urban farming organizations in the city.

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The production team is busy shooting more shows for the series, and they have already begun pitching the pilot episode to national TV networks.

The Urban Conversion is best described as urban homesteading for dummies

The show host Rodman Schley is the ultimate dummy! Rodman is a fiscally conservative businessman, who is on a socially responsible quest to reduce his own current carbon footprint. In doing so, he inserts himself into “extreme green” situations to learn the ins and outs of an off-the-grid sustainable urban homestead lifestyle.

Experience the internal conflict and humor that ensues, as the worlds of the extreme green and conservative city slicker collide. The Urban Conversion is about educating the dummy (Rodman), and ultimately educating urbanites about making small changes that can significantly reduce environmental impact.

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