KPBS San Diego – Urban Farming Series

The International Rescue Committee’s New Roots Community Farm brings refugees together to share experiences and feel a connection to their new home through community gardening and nutrition and micro-enterprise programs. The farm is located on 54th Avenue and Chollas Parkway in City Heights. Photo by Photo by Ruxandra Guidi / KPBS.

Radio Series

By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane
KPBS, San Diego State University

Monday Aug 29, 2011 – The Grow It Yourself movement (GIY).

Tuesday Aug 30 – We look at problems with urban farming, and how that might affect local refugee and immigrant communities.

Wednesday Aug 31 – Low water edibles and growing your own at home without a yard

Thursday Sept 1 – Local restaurants embracing community farming and bringing it to the table.

Urban Farming-Grow It Yourself Movement

We kick off a series of programs on Urban Farming in San Diego by finding out why people are doing it. When food is accessible anywhere from supermarkets to drive-throughs, why is the movement to grow your own food becoming so popular? We’ll hear from the co-founder of one of San Diego’s best-known sustainable farms and an I-T entrepreneur who has just joined the urban farming movement.

Guests

Lucila De Alejandro, co-owner Suzie’s Farm

Lauren Shaw is president of San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project

Link to show.

Urban Farming – What Are Your Rights

Our series on urban farming continues with an exploration of the legal problems that can crop up when backyards and vacant lots are turned into farmland. San Diego has struggled with questions about raising chickens, keeping bees and whose land is it anyway?

Guests

Anchi Mei, manager of food security and community health for the International Rescue Committee, San Diego

Adrian Florido, reporter for VoiceofSanDiego.org

Dan Joyce, is a senior planner for the City of San Diego

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Urban Farming – Low Water Edibles

Part three of our series on urban farming continues with a look at low water edibles and growing your own at home. We’ll discuss growing food, even if you don’t have your own backyard with gardening expert Nan Sterman. Determined growers in San Diego are using outdoor pots and window ledges to grow tomatoes and herbs.

GUESTS

Nan Sterman, Gardening expert, Plant Soup, Inc.

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Local restaurants embracing community farming and bringing it to the table.

See series here.