So after that detailed intro to the principles of microgreens crop planning, let’s now see how this works to calculate your crop needs. Now, here we’ll take another quick step back to remind you why crop planning is so important. In short, the goal of crop planning is twofold: To Read more…
Let’s look at some important principles of crop planning to help set a strong foundation for us to work with in coming tutorials and blog posts While I will assume you know enough about microgreens production to even be considering looking at crop planning, let’s start with an overview of Read more…
So nearly a month after the urban farmer meeting we are ready to release the summary document and project introduction. I have pasted the Executive Summary here with a link to the full pdf below: Advancing Urban Farming in Vancouver Executive Summary As Canadians become more and more aware of Read more…
We had a good planning meeting on Monday to prepare for the meeting on the 22nd. There were 8 people in attendance which is a manageable number. The general feedback on the event was positive and it seems that so far we are fairly organized and on top of things. Read more…
I think that many of the key challenges around building a successful urban farming movement/network have an organizational basis. One likely key to the success of urban farming is in developing and maintaining a cohesive organization to maintain relationships between farmers while simultaneously building opportunities for farmers and advancing the Read more…
In order to ensure I stay on task I am going to develop a working definition of urban farming so as to track how my perspective on urban farming changes and evolves. Accompanying the definition will be essential components of urban farming that should be considered as important aspects of Read more…
I have so much information and so many ideas going through my head right now about what is happening in the world of urban ag. that I can’t keep up. Let’s try to get some of them out here… 1. There is a good amount of literature coming around on Read more…
After writing my last post I realized I was already trapped in the “give me give me give me” mind set and was neglecting what it is that urban arming can offer in return. Realistically, for everything that urban farmers ask for they need to be able to give something Read more…
As I look into the future working groups that this project aims to facilitate I keep getting ideas and thoughts that I need to get written down before I lose them. Which really is the whole point of this blog. I have lately been thinking about working group topics related Read more…
Well, I am off and running with some research already. One of my focuses right now is finding literature on urban farming as a business. Found a few good academic papers as well as some urban farmer websites. I am hoping to be able to contact other urban farmers and Read more…