| Guerilla Gardening Research - 110 sec
Megan is writing a paper on guerilla gardening -- she also wants to start a guerilla garden herself. She told us about a professor who grows tomatoes in the bushes beside his office. Megan's enthusiasm for this type of gardening helped us understand why people are so interested in this subject. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:guerilla gardening city farmer urban agriculture levenston
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| Drinking Rainwater - 115 sec
Gord Harms explains how we will be turning rainwater into safe drinking water at the Demo Garden. Reverse osmosis and ultra violet light are two of processes used in our system. Gord and Graham spent the rest of the day setting up the system next to our outhouse building and attaching it to a rain barrel. In a future videoblog, we will show you "On Tap - City Farmer Rainwater". City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:rainwater drinking urban agriculture city farmer Levenston
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| Living Walls - 142 sec
Geneviève shows us the "living wall" she helped develop for people who want to grow plants where space is limited. We successfully grew lettuce in one of her 'elevated landscapes' on a fence at our garden last year and will do so again this year. It attracted lots of attention. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:living walls urban agriculture city farmer Levenston
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| Zero Waste King, Brian Burke - 350 sec
Brian takes us into the car port of Quayside Village to show us how he and his fellow residents recycle everything in their cohousing complex. The building's dumpster was removed this week to prove that they have reached zero waste. Brian speaks about two of the many things that are recycled, Styrofoam and bones.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:zero waste brian burke quayside cohousing levenston city farmer
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| Developer Creates Community Garden - 224 sec
Mike Clark of Onni called me a couple of weeks ago looking for a group to manage a new community garden his company had built on their property in downtown Vancouver. Now, this is a one of a kind story -- a developer makes available gardens on vacant land until such time as that land is ready for building construction to begin. How often have we seen empty lots sit vacant for years while nothing happens. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags: onni city farmer urban agriculture Mike clark levenston
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| How to Use a Rat Trap - 170 sec
Sharon spent the past week trapping a pesky rat who was eating apples in her home garden. She shows us some of the techniques she used to make a successful catch.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:rats rat traps city farmer levenston urban agriculture sharon
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| Freesia Condo Roof Gardens - 123 sec
High above the streets of downtown Vancouver on the 7th floor of the Freesia Condominium are more than 24, one meter square, garden plots available for condo owners to purchase. With no room to garden on ground level, residents can enjoy the view and the company of fellow green thumbs who want to grow something near where they live. City Farmer
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:freesia condo gardens city farmer downtown Levenston
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| Equal Rights For Chickens - 119 sec
Wilbur, Templeton, Mr. Kite, Iah (Eee-uh) and Dean (short for Geraldine) live secret, productive lives in a Vancouver back yard on the other side of the law. Not that they are on any wanted posters, but they don't have the same rights as dogs and cats. These egg laying chickens are Rhode Island Reds, one is a mix of Rhode Island and Araucana, and the cutest is a small Bantam. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:chickens urban agriculture city farmer levenston
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| A Living From Urban Agriculture? - 94 sec
Celine has a passion for urban agriculture and she wants to know how she can make a living growing food in cities for her neighbours. So she set out to visit projects across North America, looking at non-profits, entrepreneurs, CSA's and educational facilities. We wish her success and hope she will share her findings with us.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:urban agriculture celine levenston city farmer
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| Jacob's Well Gardens - 190 sec
Tom and Dave gave me an inspiring tour of their two gardens off the alley in downtown Vancouver (Chinatown - Strathcona). Found between Hastings and Pender Streets in the block between Dunlevy and Jackson Avenues, healthy vegetables growing in trucked-in City compost look up at the high concrete walls of local businesses. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
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| Grey Water Use at Quayside Cohousing - 240 sec
Brian shows us the grey water system in his housing complex. Shower, sink and bathtub water is collected, cleaned and reused to flush toilets in 19 units. We see a variety tanks, each one a part of the unique water filtration process. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:grey water quayside city farmer burke levenston
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| Sharon's Dog Waste Disposal Unit - 184 sec
We visit head gardener, Sharon, at her home to see where Nelly's poo is buried. Sharon designed the "dog waste composter" at the Compost Demo Garden, which thousands of people have seen in our step-by-step slide show on the City Farmer web site - as of today 43,755 views to be exact. And we've had so many letters praising the idea and so many questions that I just had to go to the source. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:dog waste city farmer sharon levenston urban agriculture
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| Regal Trio Meets Wiggly Wigglers - 188 sec
Heather Gorringe, founder of Wiggly Wigglers, is a well-know British blogger who visited us today to learn how we use the Web to further our urban agriculture work. She, son Monty and farmer husband Phil who farms 1200 acres, arable and beef, were as surprised as we were to be serenaded by the Regal Trio who came by to shoot some photos. They played "Norwegian Wood" by the Beatles for our guests. City Farmer
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:gorringe levenston regal trio urban agriculture city farmer
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| Woodchips and Excess Worms - 121 sec
Today someone brought in two worm bins as a donation because they are moving out of the country and can no longer take care of them. We harvest the red worms and use them in our school program. Also today, the Vancouver Park Board delivered wood-chips to us. We use these chips on our paths which are very muddy after the winter rains. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:woodchips worms city farmer urban agriculture Levenston
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| Electric Composter From Japan - 144 sec
Irene has been using an electric composter from Japan on her back deck to dispose of kitchen scraps for the past 6 months. The stainless steel unit comes with a bag of activator powder. Irene simply scrapes in all her cooked meat, fish, rice, pasta etc. The finished material comes out as dried pellets which Irene puts into her garden as a fertilizer. City Farmer will be testing this unit to see how it works for us.
Auteur : pakuataichi
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| Mason Bees Coming to Life - 118 sec
Terry Slack, our Mason Bee box builder says: It's time to watch out for the greatest native pollinating bee in the world, working hard in our fruit trees and gardens setting the fruit. With the Honey Bee now in serious decline in the world, our food crops still need to be pollinated and the Mason Bee needs to be encouraged to visit our yards and pollinate to his tiny heart's content.
Auteur : pakuataichi
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| Saskatoon Berry Harvest - 124 sec
Ilsa kindly agreed to harvest our Saskatoon berry shrub. Delicious, dark purple berries thickly cover the branches. Of all the berries we taste around the garden, it is my favourite, perhaps because it is rare and never seen as fresh fruit in our stores. Why don't we grow it commercially in Vancouver; or at least in our backyards?
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:ilsa sharon levenston saskatoon berry city farmer
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| Cherry Tomatoes - 93 sec
So much sweeter than the larger varieties, our small, cherry tomatoes burst with flavor when you bite into them. We haven't had much sun this summer and yet the small tomatoes turn a perfect shade of red telling us "they're done". The secret fertilizer for these plants is compost tea from an adjacent worm bin. City Farmer
Auteur : pakuataichi
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| West Nile Virus and the Garden - 123 sec
Lis, from Vancouver Coastal Health, stopped by our garden today to update us on the West Nile Virus. She has some useful tips for gardeners.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:West Nile Virus Vancouver City Farmer Lis Levenston
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| Sharon's Food Gardening Class - 119 sec
Every spring Sharon holds classes on how to start a food garden. This year the demand was so high, we've filled a second workshop. Students get to experience planting in the soil under the helpful direction of City Farmer's head gardener. That's a whole lot better than simply learning from a book or spending days in a classroom. City Farmer.
Auteur : pakuataichi
Tags:garden class sharon city farmer urban agriculture Levenston
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