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Urban Agriculture - theurbanfarmer.ca. It has only been in recent decades (since the post World War II era), and particualrly in most North American cities, that the division between urban and rural has been more sharply defined and upheld.

Urban Agriculture - theurbanfarmer.ca

Urban planning and regulatory practises of the last half century in North America have attempted to sever the natural ties between cities and food production, urban and rural, metropolis and farm. This tendency has grown out of a particular cultural bias viewing cities as “progress” and farming as “backward” and a misguided notion of public health viewing food production and the raising of animals as potentially dangerous, dirty, and infectious. Land use patterns, real estate speculation, and the emergence of the “global food system” have also contributed to the marginalization of urban agriculture in the past sixty years. But this is changing once again as a global renaissance of urban agriculture is well underway.

Agricultural Urbanism, Vancouver International Development Research Centre. Taking Space to Grow Food and Community: Urban Agriculture and Guerrilla Gardening in Vancouver. When I moved back to my hometown of Vancouver in April 2006, I decided I wanted to live on the West Side.

Taking Space to Grow Food and Community: Urban Agriculture and Guerrilla Gardening in Vancouver

This area appealed to me in part because of its many green spaces, including community gardens. I really hoped that I could find a place where I could grow some of my own food. Once I began to explore the possibilities, I realized that there was little hope of getting a plot in one of the nearby community gardens: the waiting lists were incredibly long. It seemed like everyone in Vancouver wanted to garden. One day, while I was walking along the train tracks a block away from my new home, I came across a man digging in a “vacant” plot of land between an industrial building, some disused railroad tracks, and the street. My foray into urban agriculture in Vancouver was the beginning of a new, unintended, research project.

When I first began digging at West Sixth Avenue and Pine Street, I did not really think that the process of creating an urban garden would be quite so harmonious. Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto. 534158_504505086279049_592229346_n.jpg (823×683) How to grow Grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 steps. Container gardening isn’t only for savvy urban gardeners and folks with limited space to grow, it can also be for folks who want to maximize their yields in a controlled environment.

How to grow Grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 steps

Not only does growing potatoes in a barrel reduce the amount of weeding and exposure to pests and fungi, you don’t even have to risk shovel-damage to the tender potatoes by digging them out of the ground when they’re done, just tip the container over! After extensive research to plan his own potatoes-in-a-barrel, Tim from Greenupgrader.com boiled all of the recommendations down to 4 simple steps to a winning potato harvest. 1. Select and prepare a container You’ll need to pick out a container such as a 50-gallon trash barrel or one of those half whiskey barrel planters.

Good drainage is critical for the cultivation of healthy potatoes so you’ll want to cut or drill a series of large drainage holes in the bottom and bottom sides of your container. 2. 3. 4. Other tips to grow bushels of barrel potatoes.