Pioneering the urban farm revolution, with Michael Ableman, author of Farm the City
Michael Ableman\n\n\n\nWelcome back to another episode in the ongoing series on Regenerative Agriculture. Up until now I\u2019ve spoken with growers and producers on cutting edge of profitable regenerative landbased enterprises and management techniques in rural areas, but there\u2019s also a growing movement to produce food closer to where the heaviest concentration of people are, and that\u2019s in cities. While the basics of growing food are fairly universal, there are a lot of uniques challenges that farmers in the city face that just aren\u2019t present in rural or even suburban areas. And to get an experienced point of view on urban farming, I reached out to Michael Ableman to learn more.\n\n\n\nMichael Ableman is the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement. Michael has worked as a commercial organic farmer for the last 45 years and is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Urban Agriculture. He has also created high-profile urban farms in both Watts and Goleta, California as well as Vancouver, British Columbia. Michael is the author of numerous books like From the Good Earth, On Good Land, Fields of Plenty, Street Farmand his latest, titled Farm the City in which he outlines actionable steps on how to plan, grow, and market your crops in an urban environment.\xa0\xa0\n\n\n\nIn this interview we cover many of those practical steps and much more including business planning and assessing land in the city\n\n\n\nResources:\n\n\n\nGet the book "Farm the City" by Michael Ableman\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.urbanfarm.org/