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Mathew Beaton
Curtis Stone,Founder of Green City Acres,
in Kelowna, BC, Canada, focused his Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
keynote address on "Farming in the city.
His area of expertise is in quick growing,
high value annual vegetables for direct
consumer market streams. His book, The
Urban Farmer demonstrates organic
intensive techniques with a focus on
business and systems to streamline labor The closing keynote by Greg Watson, Director of Policy and
and production. He offers a new way to
think about farming -- one where quality of Systems Design for Schumacher Center for a New
Economics, addressed "Civic Synergy and Urban Agriculture
5Clif6euratisn’dfaprrmof,itGabreilietyn coexist. Democratizing Food Production." He explored ways to
City Acres
was harness the civic synergy -- the collective power of people in
established in 2010 and specializes in a organized networks to transform the systems that affect their
select group of high value, quick growing lives.He notes that urban faring is an example of civic
crops that allow for multiple plantings in the synergy in action. Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
same beds as well as calculated
intercropping strategies. The farm has been
recognized internationally, as flagship
example of how profitable and productive
urban agriculture can be.
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