Sat June 8, 2013
Urban Farm Tours
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at Farm Locations in Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond & El Sobrante
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The third annual Urban Farms Tours invites you to visit a diverse set of “urban farms” that stretch from Albany to El Sobrante, bridging, lower income to upper middle class neighborhoods and including some unincorporated areas, which are neither urban nor truly suburban. As well as productive food gardening and small-scale urban livestock, this years itinerary features sites which go the distance with sustainability features. You will see lush gardens fed only with rainwater catchment and greywater, a site fully dedicated to natural building experiments and a miniature food forest on a tiny lot.
Here at the Institute of Urban Homesteading, we believe that Urban Farming makes a lot of sense. On a medium sized lot you can raise enough food for your own family with extra to share, at a fraction of the cost for that same organic produce at the market. Add to this, the saved cost to the environment when your food is grown five feet from your kitchen table instead of five thousand miles. With good management, vegetable and animal wastes generated increase soil fertility and reduce soil toxicity with no smell or hazard to neighbors or ground water. Urban Agriculture provides great conversation, a solid connection to the earth and a healthy outdoor alternative to video games for children.
Whether we like it or not, the urban agriculture movement is seriously underway. As it grows we think it important to look at what is possible, sensible and appropriate for home-scale agrarian practice in an urban environment. Urban Farm Tours invites you to see what established urban farmers are up to and what productive urban agriculture can look like on an x-small, small, medium, large, or x-large urban lot.
You will see fruit & vegetable gardens, urban orchards, goat dairies, wetlands, composting systems, bees, chickens, food forests, coop designs, rainwater catchment systems, greywater conservation, natural building materials, mushroom beds, ultra-local CSA-style food production, and more. Each tour will last about 30-40 minutes with time in between for travel to another location. Ask questions, get advice and sample some of the bounty these farms produce.
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Here at the Institute of Urban Homesteading, we believe that Urban Farming makes a lot of sense. On a medium sized lot you can raise enough food for your own family with extra to share, at a fraction of the cost for that same organic produce at the market. Add to this, the saved cost to the environment when your food is grown five feet from your kitchen table instead of five thousand miles. With good management, vegetable and animal wastes generated increase soil fertility and reduce soil toxicity with no smell or hazard to neighbors or ground water. Urban Agriculture provides great conversation, a solid connection to the earth and a healthy outdoor alternative to video games for children.
Whether we like it or not, the urban agriculture movement is seriously underway. As it grows we think it important to look at what is possible, sensible and appropriate for home-scale agrarian practice in an urban environment. Urban Farm Tours invites you to see what established urban farmers are up to and what productive urban agriculture can look like on an x-small, small, medium, large, or x-large urban lot.
You will see fruit & vegetable gardens, urban orchards, goat dairies, wetlands, composting systems, bees, chickens, food forests, coop designs, rainwater catchment systems, greywater conservation, natural building materials, mushroom beds, ultra-local CSA-style food production, and more. Each tour will last about 30-40 minutes with time in between for travel to another location. Ask questions, get advice and sample some of the bounty these farms produce.
The third annual Urban Farms Tours invites you to visit a diverse set of “urban farms” that stretch from Albany to El Sobrante, bridging, lower income to upper middle class neighborhoods and including some unincorporated areas, which are neither urban nor truly suburban. As well as productive food gardening and small-scale urban livestock, this years itinerary features sites which go the distance with sustainability features. You will see lush gardens fed only with rainwater catchment and greywater, a site fully dedicated to natural building experiments and a miniature food forest on a tiny lot.
Here at the Institute of Urban Homesteading, we believe that Urban Farming makes a lot of sense. On a medium sized lot you can raise enough food for your own family with extra to share, at a fraction of the cost for that same organic produce at the market. Add to this, the saved cost to the environment when your food is grown five feet from your kitchen table instead of five thousand miles. With good management, vegetable and animal wastes generated increase soil fertility and reduce soil toxicity with no smell or hazard to neighbors or ground water. Urban Agriculture provides great conversation, a solid connection to the earth and a healthy outdoor alternative to video games for children.
Whether we like it or not, the urban agriculture movement is seriously underway. As it grows we think it important to look at what is possible, sensible and appropriate for home-scale agrarian practice in an urban environment. Urban Farm Tours invites you to see what established urban farmers are up to and what productive urban agriculture can look like on an x-small, small, medium, large, or x-large urban lot.
You will see fruit & vegetable gardens, urban orchards, goat dairies, wetlands, composting systems, bees, chickens, food forests, coop designs, rainwater catchment systems, greywater conservation, natural building materials, mushroom beds, ultra-local CSA-style food production, and more. Each tour will last about 30-40 minutes with time in between for travel to another location. Ask questions, get advice and sample some of the bounty these farms produce.
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Here at the Institute of Urban Homesteading, we believe that Urban Farming makes a lot of sense. On a medium sized lot you can raise enough food for your own family with extra to share, at a fraction of the cost for that same organic produce at the market. Add to this, the saved cost to the environment when your food is grown five feet from your kitchen table instead of five thousand miles. With good management, vegetable and animal wastes generated increase soil fertility and reduce soil toxicity with no smell or hazard to neighbors or ground water. Urban Agriculture provides great conversation, a solid connection to the earth and a healthy outdoor alternative to video games for children.
Whether we like it or not, the urban agriculture movement is seriously underway. As it grows we think it important to look at what is possible, sensible and appropriate for home-scale agrarian practice in an urban environment. Urban Farm Tours invites you to see what established urban farmers are up to and what productive urban agriculture can look like on an x-small, small, medium, large, or x-large urban lot.
You will see fruit & vegetable gardens, urban orchards, goat dairies, wetlands, composting systems, bees, chickens, food forests, coop designs, rainwater catchment systems, greywater conservation, natural building materials, mushroom beds, ultra-local CSA-style food production, and more. Each tour will last about 30-40 minutes with time in between for travel to another location. Ask questions, get advice and sample some of the bounty these farms produce.
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