Comments on: The Edible Urban http://permaculture.org.au/2010/04/01/the-edible-urban/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Terry Dolman http://permaculture.org.au/2010/04/01/the-edible-urban/#comment-46019 Terry Dolman Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:38:42 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=2840#comment-46019 Good to see you are living the dream Kirsten. Very interesting article. Eliot Coleman has some excellent books. We saw him a few yrs ago on his lecture tour. Good to see you are living the dream Kirsten. Very interesting article. Eliot Coleman has some excellent books. We saw him a few yrs ago on his lecture tour.

]]> By: Arian I, http://permaculture.org.au/2010/04/01/the-edible-urban/#comment-45518 Arian I, Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:36:11 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=2840#comment-45518 A model of agricultural efficiency and an idea whose time has come. I've often thought about setting up something like the farms described herein, but then of course there are - at least in developed countries - bureaucrats and officials locked into the web of pro-big-agro interests and thus seeing urban micro farms as something "out of place" (for lack of a better term ^^;) Not only that, but the idea that agricultural activities of any sort naturally occur far away from the city is deeply ingrained in the minds of almost everyone in Western society. For instance, I have one family member who often sees me crushing eggshells and putting plaintain peels in a compost heap and replies, "We don't live out in the country, so stop doing those things!" Annoying to a high degree, but nevertheless a sign that most believe life in the country is synonymous with backwardness - and that life in the city is synonymous with progress. A model of agricultural efficiency and an idea whose time has come. I’ve often thought about setting up something like the farms described herein, but then of course there are – at least in developed countries – bureaucrats and officials locked into the web of pro-big-agro interests and thus seeing urban micro farms as something “out of place” (for lack of a better term ^^;)

Not only that, but the idea that agricultural activities of any sort naturally occur far away from the city is deeply ingrained in the minds of almost everyone in Western society. For instance, I have one family member who often sees me crushing eggshells and putting plaintain peels in a compost heap and replies, “We don’t live out in the country, so stop doing those things!” Annoying to a high degree, but nevertheless a sign that most believe life in the country is synonymous with backwardness – and that life in the city is synonymous with progress.

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