Comments on: Urban Farming With a Twist: No Labor Required!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:52:14 +0000

Interesting! I think vertical farming will be useful for people who only have limited space.

By: Dan Ramirez

Dan Ramirez — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:40:30 +0000

I liked you site and it made me very interested in this movement that I wondered how I can apply urban farming in my small rural town in Pensylvania. Any suggestions?

Dan

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:53:09 +0000

I have emailed the myfarmsf sight asking for some help up here in Davis. So far no response. This is known as farm country and I would love to get something like this going in my yard. Does anyone know of a place that will and can help those who are handicapp participate in a program like this with minimal expense and a lot of help? Thanks

By: Elizabeth Tripp

Elizabeth Tripp — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:53:41 +0000

I have recently had several trees removed and am panning a new garden. I attended a sustainable living conference inwhich cities were minimized in the ability to be sustainable. I am determined to prove this wrong. I live in Noe Valley and now get a lot of sun. I would like very much to learn about your service. Is there any possibility to get some help with this plan. THank you, Betty Tripp

By: Alex Steed [of Make Something Happen]

Alex Steed [of Make Something Happen] — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:40:24 +0000

“While such ideas as vertical farming are a potential solution, they are, for the most part theoretical and would require a dedicated political and financial will to bring about, so they cannot, for the moment, be seen as way to meet our needs in the immediate future.”

I do think that this sentiment is important to consider, but it is also important to – while figuring out how to maintain the now – lobby/advocate for what will be necessary later. We just blogged about a campaign that is trying to crowd-source funding to move the future closer to the present.

By: Pat Foster

Pat Foster — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:09:27 +0000

We have not featured gardening or specifically vegetable growing on http://www.looklovely.net, although it is a good way to keep active. Somehow, I think more people will be taken the idea of letting somebody else grow vegetables on their plot of land!

(I do try to buy locally though).

By: Jarreau

Jarreau — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:20:04 +0000

This is a neat idea both on an environmental and social level. On one hand the city dweller can learn how to set up a small garden, they can also network with other neighbors of like mind. The appeal here is, that in the hectic day to day schedule of most people living in a big city, you kill many birds with one stone.

I tend to favor the DIY attitudes, but hey, if you need help starting off or just want a hand this works.

The fees are a bit suspect though…

-jjw

http://www.izzitgreen.com

By: Paul Smith

Paul Smith — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:37:23 +0000

So interesting to see all the models of individual level farming out there. Thanks for sp…sharing, SPIN.

By: Roxanne Christensen

Roxanne Christensen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:43:40 +0000

As the co-author of SPIN-Farming, what I see every day are more and more entrepreneurs throughout the U.S. and Canada using SPIN’s franchise-ready system as an entry point into the farming profession. They are using front lawns and backyards and neighborhood lots as their land base. Developed by Canadian farmer Wally Satzewich, SPIN is a franchise-ready vegetable farming system that makes it possible to earn significant income from growing vegetables on land bases under an acre in size. 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, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them, and it removes the two big barriers to entry – sizeable acreage and significant start-up capital. This is recasting farming as a small business in cities and towns, “right sizing” agriculture for an urbanized century and helping to make local food production a viable business proposition once again.

By: Paul Smith

Paul Smith — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:05:52 +0000

Thanks for the info, Rebecca. Very encouraging to see this sort of thing happening all over!