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Chapter 2
Growing
From: Farm the City
$5.60
This lengthy and comprehensive chapter about growing covers all practical aspects of growing food in urban, paved or contaminated environments including the infrastructure, such as greenhouses and growing containers; soil and fertility issues including preparation and crop rotation; factors to consider in choosing what to grow; the importance of farm plans, and how to create them; plant propagation techniques and comparing direct seeding vs. transplanting; the importance of farm walks to observe what is happening; approaches to avoid weeding; watering approaches; how to navigate pests and diseases; harvesting; and finally, storing and delivering the produce.
Contributors
Michael Ableman
Michael Ableman is the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement. Ableman has worked as a commercial organic farmer for the last 45 years. He is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Urban Agriculture, and has created high-profile urban farms in Watts and Goleta, California; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Ableman is the author of From the Good Earth (Abrams, 1993), On Good Land (Chronicle Books, 1998), Fields of Plenty (Chronicle Books, 2005), and Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier (Chelsea Green, 2016). For more information about Michael Ableman go to www.michaelableman.com or www.foxglovefarmbc.com For more information about Sole Food Street Farms, read Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier (Chelsea Green, 2016).
