Welcome to my little blog about urban agriculture and urban farming.
Actually, this blog is not so much about urban agriculture in general, but different projects I am working on related to urban agriculture here in Vancouver, BC.
Currently, I am working on two major projects (the others have been shelved for now): urban sunflower sprout production; and urban farming entrepreneurship research
The Sunflower Sprout Project has just ended its second season. After a successful first season at UBC Farm, we had a new location for 2010 and doubled our production this season. The blog has lots of great postings to tantalize you, though could use a few updates. This is turning out to be a spectacular project and I cannot wait to see what comes out of it. Future plans are focused on developing infrastructure for winter production. I am will be working in the next while to reformat my production manual after this year’s production upgrades.
My other major project is undertaking research on urban farming entrepreneurship, which is the basis of my undergraduate thesis. This project is focused on promoting and supporting urban farming as a business which can help the City of Vancouver achieve its goals of being the greenest city in the world by 2020. It is also a means of uniting urban farmers to share resources skills, and good food.
You can read more about each of these projects by clicking on their title to the right. Also on the right is a blog for each project which I have been detailing as each project progresses. The blogs talk about the projects as well as my personal thoughts and contain many pictures and videos.
Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions. I am happy to have your feedback.
Hi Chris,
Ian Marcuse thought that you may know something about the farms or farmers who are looking for people to buy shares in wheat/flour crops. I am interested in learning more about this project. I cannot find who to contact on the internet. Is it Urban Grains? And do you know how I could find out more?
Many thanks in advance,
Jodie
Hey,
Woah – sprout addiction!
We are back at the Wednesday market this week! Needed some time off.
chris
I need sprouts
Hi Chris. Thank you for writing to Mischa about the grain CSA. We are one of the growers and wrote him a scathing letter about his appalling lack of research, midleading information and profound bias. And, our fundamentalist polygamist neighbours should NEVER bear his wrathful tongue. Cheers, Joanne Gailius