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Chapter 4
People and Principles
From: Farm the City
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This chapter delves deeper into the staffing an urban farm. For Sole Food Street Farm, it is to create meaningful, healthy full-time jobs for people most in need of them, and this shapes all of its further decisions. This chapter also discusses accounting for the social benefits of the farm. It offers a list of general farming principles, and an urban farming manifesto. The chapter concludes with reflections on creating an urban orchard.
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).