farming on small acreage

A Koi-Fueled Nursery in New Orleans Yields Tasty Profits

Thanks to Sanjay for sharing this; I have followed VEGGI’s emergence and believe that their efforts are one of the best examples of entrepreneurial farming combined with technology solutions and will benefit many farmers, rural and urban alike. The VEGGI cooperative and cooperatives like it are one of the best ways that small lot farmers can truly become economically sustainable and avoid the burnout of a one-farmer endeavor and how urban initiatives can learn quickly enough to benefit the region.

A Koi-Fueled Nursery in New Orleans Yields Tasty Profits – Wired Science.

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Grazing with goats in the Crescent City

Goats for grazing is a super idea for the many open, untended sites we have in New Orleans and throughout the U.S. This is a simple fundraising idea for an New Orleans entrepreneur that wants to use goats to graze public and private green space. She has already been contracted to use goats on a park in the city (Brechtel Park) starting in 2014 and needs support to get her business prepared for the work ahead.
I see she also sees this as public art, which I’d have to hear more about to understand I guess, but the goat grazing is by itself an idea that I can certainly support. Maybe you can too?

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…To comment further on the public art point, I’d rather this be seen chiefly as a serious farming and open space issue that helps urban people see that livestock can safely serve many roles in the larger natural survival loop, even in our ordered urban environment.

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Designing Urban Agriculture: A Complete Guide to the Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Edible Landscapes — City Farmer News

This book, coupled with Tanya Denckla Cobb’s excellent book on urban agriculture organizing,Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing What We Eat seem like a good pair to have in any local non-profit’s library.

Designing Urban Agriculture: A Complete Guide to the Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Edible Landscapes — City Farmer News.

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6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre

Sharing farming details with market communities was the subject of a recent FMC webinar via by Washington State’s Colleen Donovan. That archived webinar can be viewed at http://farmersmarketcoalition.org/information-marketplace/.
This video also gives some very good information about growing food on very small acreage and could be embedded on farmers markets or farmers sites for community members to learn more about small lot farming.

▶ 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre – Urban Farm – Urban Homestead – Growing Your Own Food – YouTube.

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