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Diversified Urban Farm Opens Farm Store in 2012
Frijolito Farm, one of Columbus’s few diversified urban farms, continues to evolve to overcome the challenges of small scale urban farming. 2012 includes opening a farm market store and offering gift cards. Read the story on the Farm Blog: http://frijolitofarm.com/blog/2012/01/improvise-adapt-overcome/ … Read entire article »
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Franklinton Gardens Organization Heads Healthy Corner Store Initiative
The challenge to getting fresh food into the urban center is building enough demand among the residents. This article shows that shopkeepers at corner stores want to carry more fresh vegetable and fruit, but the demand for such is not there yet. Economically disadvantaged people usually have less time to prepare fresh whole foods. Many folks lack the cooking skills and often the equipment. It is much easier and usually cheaper to eat processed foods … Read entire article »
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Local Foods Week Starts Sept. 30th
Want to eat healthier, support the local economy, meet some new friends? Check out the festivities for Local Foods Week. … Read entire article »
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Urban Columbus Worm Farm Featured on ONN!
One20 farm of Columbus is featured on Ohio News Network. In their Green Ohio segment. Also featured is Sunny Meadows Sunflower Farm another of our local urban farms. Way to go! View the story and video follow the link below: Columbus Farmer Has Unique Crop | Ohio News Network (ONN). … Read entire article »
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Can you Farm in a Truck?
A guy in Brooklyn needed more fresh veggies in his diet, but had no land to garden. So he turned the bed of his pickup truck into a garden and ran a CSA where he drove right to the members and harvested on site. He made a documentary with music written for the film. Wonderfully entertaining. Truck Farm A Wicked Delicate Film and Food Project www.truck-farm.com … Read entire article »
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Urban Farms of Central Ohio
View Urban Farms of Central Ohio in a larger map We are building a map of urban farms. If you know of a farm that is in an urban (or suburban) area and sells direct to consumer, restaurants or stores, please comment and let others know about them. View Urban Farms of Central Ohio in a larger map … Read entire article »
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Alternative Chicken feed
For those who are looking to reduce their dependence on corn and soybean based feeds. There are a number of online sources on alternative chicken feed formulation for small producers. Lionsgrip has a good introduction and details on alternatives at http://www.lionsgrip.com/intro.html Energyfarms.net has a list of % of protein by wt. of various food sources such as earthworms 28%, dried peas and beans 24%, and sunflower seed 26%. Interestingly duckweed is listed as 50%. They also have a homegrown recipe mix of Peredovik Sungflowers seeds, Sorghum, Millet, and Ground corn. http://www.energyfarms.net/taxonomy/term/233 … Read entire article »
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Columbus Monthly Magazine Features Urban Farmers
The November issue of Columbus Monthly Magazine includes an article on several urban farmers in Columbus. The article highlights the backyard chicken movement in urban areas and the emergence of small farms on the near fringes of the city. The magazine is available at Kroger, Giant Eagle, Barnes and Noble and other newstands around town. Visit the magazine’s site for a list of newstands. … Read entire article »
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How do we move farming to the cities?
This was originally posted as a reply to Sam Rose’s question on Ohio State University’s Local Food Systems network. “So, the question is: how can we plausibly increase the amount of farmers? The answer seems to be to take farming to where most of the people are at: in the cities.” –Sam Rose I very much agree. In bringing farming to cities, we face two major obstacles, neither of which are insurmountable. The first is that, even with intensive models such as Square-Foot gardening, Grow Biointensive, or SPIN, farming still requires land. A person aiming only to feed his or her own family might find a backyard sufficient, but someone trying to grow enough to earn a living is going to need either a lot of land on which they can grow during … Read entire article »
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