Comments on: Inner-City Farms http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/inner-city-farms/ Verda Vivo means "Green Life" in the universal language of Esperanto. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:55:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Verda Vivo http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/inner-city-farms/#comment-1138 Verda Vivo Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:24:37 +0000 http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/?p=1252#comment-1138 Green roofs, vertical farming...there are many ways we can utilize what we already have if you choose too. Yes, indeed, Portland is one of my favorite cities. ~ Daryl Green roofs, vertical farming…there are many ways we can utilize what we already have if you choose too.

Yes, indeed, Portland is one of my favorite cities. ~ Daryl

]]> By: Clare http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/inner-city-farms/#comment-1126 Clare Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:34:17 +0000 http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/?p=1252#comment-1126 Super important to support these things! I volunteered for the Organic School Project in Chicago and it was really incredible to see some of the kids didn't know what an actual green bean looked like, or how food came out of the ground. The vertical farming initiative is an awesome idea as well - I'm supporting it through: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/vertical-farm-in-new-york-city Hopefully these projects become a bigger part of our everyday lives! Super important to support these things! I volunteered for the Organic School Project in Chicago and it was really incredible to see some of the kids didn’t know what an actual green bean looked like, or how food came out of the ground.

The vertical farming initiative is an awesome idea as well – I’m supporting it through: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/vertical-farm-in-new-york-city

Hopefully these projects become a bigger part of our everyday lives!

]]> By: cheaplikeme http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/inner-city-farms/#comment-1121 cheaplikeme Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:35:10 +0000 http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/?p=1252#comment-1121 So cool -- Portland sounds just awesome. So cool — Portland sounds just awesome.

]]> By: Roxanne Christensen http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/inner-city-farms/#comment-1120 Roxanne Christensen Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:33:18 +0000 http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/?p=1252#comment-1120 What is helping to power this citizen-driven movement to relocalize food production is SPIN-Farming. SPIN makes it possible to earn $50,000+ from a half-acre. SPIN farmers utilize relay cropping to increase yield and achieve good economic returns by growing only the most profitable food crops tailored to local markets. SPIN's growing techniques are not, in themselves, breakthrough. What is novel is the way a SPIN farm business is run. SPIN provides everything you'd expect from a good franchise: a business plan, marketing advice, and a detailed day-to-day workflow. In standardizing the system and creating a reproducible process it really isn't any different from McDonalds. By offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, it allows many more people to farm commercially, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them. You can see some of these backyard and front lawn entrepreneurial farmers in action at www.spinfarming.com What is helping to power this citizen-driven movement to relocalize food production is SPIN-Farming. SPIN makes it possible to earn $50,000+ from a half-acre. SPIN farmers utilize relay cropping to increase yield and achieve good economic returns by growing only the most profitable food crops tailored to local markets. SPIN’s growing techniques are not, in themselves, breakthrough. What is novel is the way a SPIN farm business is run. SPIN provides everything you’d expect from a good franchise: a business plan, marketing advice, and a detailed day-to-day workflow. In standardizing the system and creating a reproducible process it really isn’t any different from McDonalds. By offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, it allows many more people to farm commercially, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them. You can see some of these backyard and front lawn entrepreneurial farmers in action at http://www.spinfarming.com

]]> By: Edouard http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/inner-city-farms/#comment-1119 Edouard Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:29:04 +0000 http://verdavivo.wordpress.com/?p=1252#comment-1119 that's fantastic... now we know what to do of the majority of parking spots when the car age will be over... Other places that could be used as gardens are... roofs. I wrote some months ago an article on green roofs. ( Love it since it brought me readers and subscribers from Brazil ^^ ) This solution would also have many other advantages on top of enabling urbanites to have fresh fruits and veggies : http://www.elrst.com/2007/11/02/green-roofs-and-walls-a-brilliant-idea/ Keep up the good work Daryl ! that’s fantastic… now we know what to do of the majority of parking spots when the car age will be over…

Other places that could be used as gardens are… roofs. I wrote some months ago an article on green roofs. ( Love it since it brought me readers and subscribers from Brazil ^^ )

This solution would also have many other advantages on top of enabling urbanites to have fresh fruits and veggies :
http://www.elrst.com/2007/11/02/green-roofs-and-walls-a-brilliant-idea/

Keep up the good work Daryl !

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