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Serious Eats talks urban agriculture with Taja Sevelle executive director of Urban Farming, an internationally active organization.
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Serious Eats:
As well as the larger projects, you are also on a mission to
encourage home gardening as a means of using wasted land for crop
production. How can people in urban areas find the space and time for
gardening if they may not own their own land?
One of the things that we're doing with Triscuit this
year is not only are we planting 50 community-based farms, but also
encouraging a home farming movement. We're trying to use our web
resources to facilitate conversation among home gardeners who can share
tips and gain advice from our pros.
If you have a windowsill or veranda, you can get started with some
tomatoes and basil. If you have any patch of land at all, you can use
our resources or other online resources to find out when the frost will
lift, what plants you should put down.
Our whole goal is planned to reconnect people with the simple joy of
growing your own food, how easy and approachable it is to get started.
The main thing is to get some seeds, some soil, some sun—and just do it.
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