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17 October 2012
The Human Element - Maintaining and Growing an Urban Agriculture Community
Nature provides a lot, but community participation can make urban farming a lot more fun. How do we turn a successful project into a successful program? Maintenance and harvesting can be important parts of building a community around growing food, and we will discover ways to make these connections. Youth education programs provide a pathway to a healthier future, and a springboard for how to get the food we grow into people's bellies. Together, we will look at lessons from existing urban agriculture projects, and identify resources within our own neighborhoods and city government. Our society's relationship with healthy food needs work - let's improve it!
Join us and create programs to bring people into urban farming. We will demonstrate the connection between plant maintenance and food harvest, and together we will find ways to connect families and communities to urban agriculture with tools like youth education and public resources.
Where: Hayes Valley Farm, 450 Laguna St, San Francisco
When: Saturday, October 20, 12-5pm
Cost: $25
Instructors: Jay Rosenberg, Rob Joyce
Photo by Jason Taylor, July 18, 2012
Water! Climate! Vertical Solutions! Now the fun begins in earnest, and we look at urban agriculture through an even wider lens. We will discuss the specific climates of San Francisco, from the Bay Area in general to neighborhood microclimates, and how these factors impact which plants are successful. We all know water is essential for life, and together we will identify specific strategies for using water wisely. Finally, you will rocket into the third dimension by discovering ways to use the vertical spaces all around us.
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