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Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture — City Farmer News
Post about the exhibition, Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture, February 25th – April 30th 2009 – Free Admission (Opening reception: March 3rd 2009), at Design Exchange, Toronto (website: www.dx.org)
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This exhibition will show how the design of cities and buildings is enabling the production of food in the city.
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Urban farming school takes root
Richmond, BC starts an urban farming school...
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Kwantlen and the Richmond food security task force have joined forces to launch the ground-breaking program in 2009 as a way to allow young farmers to get into the industry and to meet the growing demand for locally produced food.
"The potential for this kind of agriculture to develop into a substantial component of the local and regional economy cannot be understated," Mullinix said.
he program would require about two hectares of land to start, and could partner with the Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project, which already has a presence at the proposed city sites and is growing food for local food banks.
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The school's topics would include soil management, plant science, animal husbandry and farm infrastructure, but would cover all steps in the food chain, including value-added processing, marketing, and sales.
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