Photo By Steve Bosch. Kent Mullinix is a sustainable agriculture specialist at Kwantlen College Institute for Sustainable Horticulture.
Instruction would be based on intensive farming on small plots.
By Larry Pynn
The Vancouver Sun – 29 Nov 2008
A school of urban farming — a North American first — is finding fertile soil in Richmond BC Canada.
Richmond’s parks, recreation, and cultural services committee has unanimously endorsed the concept of an urban farm school and directed staff to investigate city land for such a project, either at Terra Nova park at the west end of Westminster Highway, or the south end of Gilbert Road.
Instruction would be based on intensive farming on small plots, a heavy dependence on physical labour, ecological sustainability and meeting local market demands, including the food needs of ethnic and immigrant communities.
“It’s human-scale agriculture, labour-intensive and production intensive,” said Kent Mullinix, a sustainable agriculture specialist at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Institute for Sustainable Horticulture.
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Also see: Kwantlen proposes new farm school