The Compelling Economics behind Green Building and Urban Agriculture: Interview with James Kalin

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Sustainable Commercial Urban Farm Incubator (SCUFI) Program

By Luke Miller Callahan
The Socio Capitalist
03/07/2011

The Sustainable Commercial Urban Farm Incubator (SCUFI) program trains aspiring commercial urban farmers, assists with startup financing, helps secure land and provides technical and business support to urban farmers. SCUFI program sites are getting underway across the country. Two of the first are in Concord and Hayward, California.

Sustainable commercial urban farms can be profitably operated in cities. A commercial urban farm team can make a good annual income from farming a single parcel, or a collection of neighborhood parcels, that may total less than an acre.

Profitable sustainable commercial urban farms can be established on fertile urban soils, on impervious surfaces (such as parking lots, demolished building concrete pads, or rooftops), or on brownfields.

Sustainable commercial urban farms can be profitably integrated into structures, grounds and systems of new or existing buildings and neighborhoods.

Commercial urban farms can provide major financial, environmental and social benefits for property developers, owners, operators, tenants and their neighborhoods.

Commercial urban farms can strengthen the proformas, ROI, valuation and triple-bottom-line performance of green building and sustainable development projects, such as LEED or Living Building Challenge.

See SCUFI website here.