Over the past thirty years we've accumulated much hands-on experience with growing food, flowers, fiber and medicinal plants in the Urban Core.
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Many approaches we tried turned out to be les than optimal. However we considered even the failures to be successes for we knowing what doesn't work is just as important as knowing what does work.
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City Farmed Permaculture Bell Peppers
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City farming can occur anywhere where sunlight is available.
Of course, rain or condensate helps. But we've successfully grown plants and seen plants grow in the most harshest of places, without soil and without additional irrigation.
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City Farmed Permaculture Oranges
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Growing lightweight food gardens on roofs has taught that even without massive roofing supports and even in cyclone prone areas, beans, tomatoes, herbs and greens can be grown.
Living walls can shade windows, provide habitat for wildlife, produce food, gourds and sponges.
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City Farmed Permaculture Cilabtro
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Patio space may be utilized to create highly efficient food gardens in self-watering containers.
Hens, geese, ducks, turkeys and rabbits all have a place on the Urban Farm.
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City Farmed Permaculture Chives
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Learn about rooftop gardening, how to build a low cost, highly effective chicken coop or seed starting greenhouse.
Understand biodiversity principles of plant selection.
Urban Farming - our best dreams and worse nightmares.
Know what you are geting into before the adventure of your life!
You can read the details in our approximately two hundred page City Farming book available on Amazon Kindle!
City Farming, Lovely Urban Insanity is available exclusively through Kindle by clicking the link here!
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