Farm the City, Garden with Grains
Farm the City: A Toolkit for Setting up a Successful Urban Farm, by Michael Abelman
Farm the City
Our first guest is farmer, author, and food system activist Micheal Abelman.
Michael is a visionary of the urban farming movement. In addition to his family farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, he’s the co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms in Vancouver, an urban agriculture business that provides employment to people managing poverty and addiction. The farm covers 4 acres of land, producing 25 tons of food annually.
The author of many books, his most recent book is Farm The City: A Toolkit for Setting up a Successful Urban Farm.
The book, a tool kit for food activists, shares ideas about setting up and operating an urban farm including finding land, choosing crops, marketing and fundraising, and community engagement.
Gardening with Grains
In the second half of the show, we chat with horticulturist and foodscaping expert Brie Arthur about her new book, Gardening with Grains.
Brie is an advocate of including food plants in the landscape, and a proponent of planting edibles within traditional ornamental landscapes.
Brie gives advice for growing grains from planting to harvest. Ever thought of growing barley? It gives a whole new meaning to the term “beer garden!”
Brie previously joined us on the show to talk about her book The Foodscape Revolution.