Leslie, from City Slicker Farms, dropped by our Demo Garden and told us about her work in West Oakland. City Slicker Farms helps low income West Oakland residents grow produce to feed their families. Staff help build organic vegetable gardens and provide the ongoing assistance, supplies and materials necessary for successful growing. For those who want to sell produce, they provide the markets necessary for sales and also work with growers to ensure quality. www.cityfarmer.info
Ian Lai, a chef and urban agriculture consultant, has been teaching children how to make bread. But what is so unusual and especially in a city, is that all the grains used to make the bread are grown in the city. Wheat, barley, spelt, flax, buckwheat, amaranth, and keenwa are grown at the Terra Nova Garden site in Richmond. Young students learn to winnow, crush, and grind the wheat to make their own loaves of bread. The other grains are added to the loaf to create a "multigrain' loaf. www.cityfarmer.info
Esme shows us how she composts in Singapore. www.cityfarmer.info
Perhaps the weirdest Victory Garden video ever. 1943 Dig For Victory Leaflet No 1 The video advocates preparing your garden so that you can have crops to harvest for winter storage. In Vancouver, we plan early to make sure we have crops in the garden for winter picking (kale, Swiss chard), for harvesting out of the cold frame (variety of hardy salad greens) and for early spring harvest (Purple sprouting broccoli). Mike Dialogue from the video. "In spring this gardener sowed away He meant to eat well every day." www.cityfarmer.info
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