Comments on: Friends in print - urban food production in The Age http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/ Creative adaptations to peak oil and climate change Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:33:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: angela elliott http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-31406 angela elliott Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:58:36 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-31406 I am very inspired by Glenda Lindsay. I would love to be able to contact Glenda and discuss how we can build a garden at our children's school which is at the moment cement and bitumen. We have a group of very hardworking and committed parents but need advise desperately. Thankyou, Kind Regareds Angela Elliott I am very inspired by Glenda Lindsay. I would love to be able to contact Glenda and discuss how we can build a garden at our children’s school which is at the moment cement and bitumen. We have a group of very hardworking and committed parents but need advise desperately.
Thankyou,
Kind Regareds
Angela Elliott

]]> By: Roxanne Christensen http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11063 Roxanne Christensen Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:47:31 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11063 A growing corps of first generation farmers throughout the burbs in U.S. and Canada are taking up SPIN-Farming, developed by Canadian farmer Wally Satzewich. SPIN stands for S-mall P-lot IN-tensive, and it is a non-technical, easy to-learn-and inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to generate significant income from sub-acre – less than an acre - land masses. Minimal infrastructure, reliance on hand labor to accomplish most farming tasks, utilization of existing water sources to meet irrigation needs, and situating close to markets all keep investment and overhead costs low. SPIN therefore removes the 2 big barriers to entry – land and capital. You can see the operations of some of these backyard and front lawn farmers at the SPIN-Farming web site - www.spinfarming.com. By re-casting farming as a small business, SPIN is showing how agriculture can be incorporated into our built environments instead of being segregated in living museums outside of it and is helping to not only re-imagine the current food production system, but it is providing a tool for re-building it. <em>[Ed's note: I almost marked this as spam, since it is non-contextual promotion of a commercial operation. But it's also worth checking out as a program which seems designed to systematise urban market gardening for non-farmers. -- Ad]</em> A growing corps of first generation farmers throughout the burbs in U.S. and Canada are taking up SPIN-Farming, developed by Canadian farmer Wally Satzewich. SPIN stands for S-mall P-lot IN-tensive, and it is a non-technical, easy to-learn-and inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to generate significant income from sub-acre – less than an acre - land masses. Minimal infrastructure, reliance on hand labor to accomplish most farming tasks, utilization of existing water sources to meet irrigation needs, and situating close to markets all keep investment and overhead costs low. SPIN therefore removes the 2 big barriers to entry – land and capital. You can see the operations of some of these backyard and front lawn farmers at the SPIN-Farming web site - http://www.spinfarming.com.
By re-casting farming as a small business, SPIN is showing how agriculture can be incorporated into our built environments instead of being segregated in living museums outside of it and is helping to not only re-imagine the current food production system, but it is providing a tool for re-building it.

[Ed’s note: I almost marked this as spam, since it is non-contextual promotion of a commercial operation. But it’s also worth checking out as a program which seems designed to systematise urban market gardening for non-farmers. — Ad]

]]> By: Denise http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11054 Denise Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:18:43 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11054 I read the article with great interest, as this is where my head seems to be at at the moment... a couple of weeks ago I read an article about a guy named David Duval Smith, who works in Tokyo, and who is intent on creating an edible jungle in the suburbs, using permaculture practice. The article is in the mook DUMBO FEATHER PASS IT ON (issue 13). Well worth reading. I am a florist with a large north facing yard/carpark at work, and we have a lot of 'waste' water , so I am starting to grow vegetables in pots. Unfortunately, I don't own the block, but I share the building with 2 tenants, one with 2 kids, so it will be really nice to grow enough food to share. I've long advocated growing fruit trees. Can't be thathard ! I read the article with great interest, as this is where my head seems to be at at the moment… a couple of weeks ago I read an article about a guy named David Duval Smith, who works in Tokyo, and who is intent on creating an edible jungle in the suburbs, using permaculture practice. The article is in the mook DUMBO FEATHER PASS IT ON (issue 13). Well worth reading.
I am a florist with a large north facing yard/carpark at work, and we have a lot of ‘waste’ water , so I am starting to grow vegetables in pots. Unfortunately, I don’t own the block, but I share the building with 2 tenants, one with 2 kids, so it will be really nice to grow enough food to share. I’ve long advocated growing fruit trees. Can’t be thathard !

]]> By: rick t http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11007 rick t Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:59:53 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11007 Makes you feel that Melbourne is okay. What a surprise! Finish your chickweed, Adam. Makes you feel that Melbourne is okay. What a surprise!
Finish your chickweed, Adam.

]]> By: adam http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11003 adam Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:45:15 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-11003 Aha! I remember, you were the one surreptitiously and not too surreptitiously pointing out people from Monsanto etc. ;) Aha! I remember, you were the one surreptitiously and not too surreptitiously pointing out people from Monsanto etc. ;)

]]> By: Girl on The Avenue http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-10998 Girl on The Avenue Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:17:49 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-10998 Me again. I think I met you and Glenda at that gatecrashed PR gig. I subsequently wrote this: http://www.overlandexpress.org/183_wilson.html Me again. I think I met you and Glenda at that gatecrashed PR gig. I subsequently wrote this: http://www.overlandexpress.org/183_wilson.html

]]> By: Girl on The Avenue http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-10996 Girl on The Avenue Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:15:45 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/11/kizilos/#comment-10996 Bravo to Katherine Kizilos! A very fine and visionary feature-writer indeed. Bravo to Katherine Kizilos! A very fine and visionary feature-writer indeed.

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