This is the second part of an interview with Ted Cathcart, Operations Manager and Food Gardener at the YWCA in Vancouver. Ted and I are talking five floors up in the YWCA's rooftop food garden in downtown Vancouver. www.cityfarmer.info
Shannon Walsh-Wrightson, Executive Chef at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in downtown Vancouver, gives Janine and I a tour of this rooftop herb garden, which has been used by the professional kitchen staff at the hotel for over 10 years. Learn how he and his fellow cooks incorporate fresh herbs and fruit from the garden into their dishes. City Farmer TV.
WW2 Victory Garden Promotion Film. Universal Newsreel. All Out For Victory by Ed Herlihy.
Jordan talks about selling garden produce in front of his home in Vancouver BC. Every Sunday he harvests herbs, vegetables, fruit and also some eggs and places them for sale at the end of his driveway. He calls his home garden "Southlands Farm".
Cartoon 1944 (Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries "Dig For Victory Leaflet No 7) Commentary - "Thanks Mr Middleton. Mr Middleton - Good Afternoon, we all expect vegetables to feed us but we've got to see that we feed them properly too. Suppose we get down to the root of the matter. Plants need food just as much as we do, and it must be in a form they can assimilated. This is where humas comes in. Humas is composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter. By putting humas in the soil plus a few handfuls of chemical fertiliser you make sure that the plant has enough to eat. One of the best sources of humas is the compost heap. It really acts as a sort of canteen for the plants. Simple and cheap its mainly garden waste, its easy to make a compost heap and if you want it in time for next seasons crop now is a good time to start. PLANT - That's right, now is a good time to start." www.cityfarmer.info
Heather Gorringe, founder of Wiggly Wigglers, is a well-know British blogger who visited us today to learn how we use the Web to further our urban agriculture work. She, son Monty and farmer husband Phil who farms 1200 acres, arable and beef, were as surprised as we were to be serenaded by the Regal Trio who came by to shoot some photos. They played “Norwegian Wood” by the Beatles for our guests. City Farmer.
Terry and Beverly tell us about a wonderful City of Vancouver program that makes our city more beautiful. “Green Streets gardens are landscaped traffic circles and corner bulges in neighbourhoods.” Volunteer gardeners plant and care for award-winning gardens in over 250 sites. City Farmer TV.
Heather showed me a new composting initiative taking place at the Vancouver Aquarium. Eighty percent of waste produced at the cafeteria including plates, cups, cutlery, napkins and food waste, goes to a compost facility in Metro Vancouver. City Farmer.
Sharon shows Tasha of Breakfast TV our garden and what is growing in July. Garlic, chives, lettuce, carrots, gooseberries, kale, and zucchini. The Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden. www.cityfarmer.info
What do you do in the garden at the end of October? You can start to collect seeds. Maria show us what plants she has saved and the seeds she is harvesting from them. These seeds will be given as gifts to students and visitors as part of our education program. City Farmer.
Tasha from Breakfast TV learns about worm composting and more about backyard composting from Sharon at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden in Vancouver BC. www.cityfarmer.info
Sharon tells Tasha how to use a rain barrel and also how we irrigate the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden with soaker hoses.
1940 'Gardening' an instructional sound film. (10 minutes) Produced by Erpi Classroom Films Inc. In collaboration with Ellen Eddy Shaw, MA Brooklyn Botanic Garden Encyclopedia Britannica Films - 'Bring the world to the Classroom"
In Punjabi, learn how to compost in your backyard. Produced at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden in Vancouver, BC by City Farmer and the City of Vancouver. 2008. (www.cityfarmer.info) 604.736.2250
Ron goes to people’s homes and helps them set up food gardens in Edmonton, Alberta. His business, The Urban Farmer, “ is dedicated to supporting city residents and communities in the creation of urban landscapes that are natural, environmentally sustainable, and food-producing”. City Farmer TV.
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1933 - Prince of Wales (Edward) undertakes a little spadework at an allotment garden
The Prince of Wales visits Allotments in 1933 H.R. H. sees Abbey Wood small-holdings, where 350 unemployed are hard at productive work. Shot of car coming. Prince alights from same. Shakes hands with the mayor. Spectators around same. Introduced to various people. Close shot of him talking and shaking hands with woman. Walks along road with others. Inspects allotments. Close shot of him digging with spectators around him. Close shot of him distributing seed potatoes to owners of allotments. Going onto waste land and various people including mayor using silver painted scythe to cut away grass. cityfarmer.info
"The Holder family in Maryland lays out a quarter acre Victory Garden during World War II. Most of the gardening work is done by Grandpa Holder and his teenage grandchildren Rick and Amy and from the looks of the film, it is backbreaking work. There is the garden of peppers, tomatoes, pole beans, potatoes, asparagus and sweet corn. Then, there is the late garden with beets, squash, late potatoes, late cabbage, kale, collard greens and three rows of turnips. "A victory garden is like a share in an airplane factory, the film opening tells us. It is also a vitamin factory that will keep Americans strong. The film ends on a patriotic note, 'No Work, No Victory!' Bear that in mind all you Victory Gardeners and Work! For Victory! A no-nonsense, non-idealized look at what it is like to have to really grow your own food."
Maria pulls up some of her garlic as rain falls on the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden. In this video she shows us to join a number of garlic plants together by braiding them together.
Mike Clark of Onni called me a couple of weeks ago looking for a group to manage a new community garden his company had built on their property in downtown Vancouver. Now, this is a one of a kind story – a developer makes available gardens on vacant land until such time as that land is ready for building construction to begin. How often have we seen empty lots sit vacant for years while nothing happens. City Farmer
Master Shou-Yu Liang's students demonstrate wushu at a Vancouver high school to celebrate Chinese New Year. This video features some of the school's instructors.
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