Urban farms struggle to provide low-cost food
By Grant Burns
in East Vancouver is part of a larger project to provide locally grown food in . However, it is finding it hard to grow produce at a cost that is affordable to the people in the area.
The farm is only able to offer only six jobs to Downtown Eastside residents, and none of its first harvest will be made available to the neighbourhood. Instead, it is planning to sell its crop to high-end restaurants in order to pay the bills.
Produced by Daniel Guillemette, Michelle Ha, and Grant Burns.
Posted by Grant Burns
on Apr 13 2010. Filed under Feature story.
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Interesting report! It’s encouraging to see that urban citizens are realizing the importance of food production – and struggling against cost and space obstacles to grow food. Good work!
Other growing methods are possible in the city…
Quite often, to support urban ag production projects, other money making projects or other funds in the form of grants and such are required…
To see another possible way to grow food in our city, utilizing mostly free and available resources, check our another article at http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/09/fresh-roots-farms-east-vancouver-yards/ or our website at http://www.freshroots.ca
Cheers!!!
Gray
Head Farmer
Fresh Roots Urban Farm
Great report. I wasn’t even aware or urban farms, much less, the scarcity of land to build and sustain them.
Great work!