Profitable Urban Farming. A realistic view with farmer Curtis Stone.

[jbauer]

Horse manure is terrible from a nutrient standpoint. A horse doesn't have much digestion take place in their stomach. Most of it is done in the "hind-gut" or colon. This means that things are digested terribly well including a lot of weed seeds. Rabbit and chicken are great. Cow and hog is good.

I know in Milwaukee WI, and I'm sure many other places, human waste is composted for Agriculture use. And of course leaf compost, grass clippings, wood chips/saw dust, expired produce (both from individuals and grocery stores) is available too. I think if someone makes it of high enough importance they could get all their inputs from local urban sources.
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http://www.growingpower.org I think this company 'Growing Power' has a good urban farming model. They build their own soil, they build use and sell their own worm castings, they do aquaponics. So they sell worm casting, produce, fish, and they sell their service helping other individuals open urban farms.

Another good resource I've found on the matter is Eliot Coleman. He and his wife own a rural farm so the information he presents in his books aren't focused on urban farming, but many of his practices though I think could benefit an urban farmer. But more specifically, in his book The Winter Harvest Handbook he has a chapter on Paris market gardening in the 19th century. They used very intensive techniques and with 6% of the land Paris became a net exporter of produce. Unfortunately cars don't poop out black gold like the horses they used for transportation at the time did, and my understanding is that horse manure is the best manure to use for vegetable production, so maybe such intensive techniques aren't possible in an urban setting today (without shipping the poop in I guess). Irregardless, I haven't been able to find any extensive resources on the practice that is written in english, so I've been meaning for a few years now to get a french grammar and a french to english dictionary and pick up a french book hopefully written by one of the market gardeners themselves about the practice and the life of a market gardener to translate to english.

 

[P3ter_Griffin]

I found a free google ebook on the practices of the Paris market gardener, the same book I had in my amazon wish list for a few years and I believe one of the ones mentioned by Eliot Coleman in his book. Manuel pratique de la culture maraichère de Paris . Google can translate the text to which is cool, you can understand what they are saying, but I'll still need a grammar book to transcribe it. Does anyone know how the IP works on this kind of thing, the book its dated 1845, am I free to translate it to english and put it in a distributable form and either sell or give it away?

 

[Danke]

 

[PAF]

Instead of building a business whitey is online doing nothing... and getting all the "likes" by their followers.

The Border "fiasco" was manufactured to:

Disrupt local communities, agriculture and cattle ranches in order to justify Eminent Domain and to drive prices with the goal of rolling out synthetics.

Force people to forfeit individual rights outlined in the Bill of Rights [Constitution-Free Zones].

Pit people against people to differentiate and implement "them from us" and the rollout of biometrics. Social Credit Scores and Carbon Credits are the end-goal.

The destruction of our culture and our nation, based on liberty, freedom, the Bill of Rights, will be done from within and buy-in from the dumbed-down people.

Indoctrination [public school] is dumbing people down in order to force reliance on the system.

While other countries permit their young to work, here in the U.S. it is considered "child abuse", and kids today hang around doing nothing and play video games while becoming obese. It's an epidemic.

We can learn a lot from immigrants who are typically Catholic, have lower divorce rates, have tight family bonds, and not afraid to actually work. Whitey blaming them for "taking our jobs" is nothing but entitlement and commie talk and pushing the blame onto others - and now the so-called Right is actually embracing it. It's pathetic.

The Globalist Technocrats will win as a result of this. The only solution is to get government completely out of the immigration business, both in and out, once and for all. It's a Socialist program.

Immigrants who seek a better life and willing to work aren't the problem; Dumbed-down, Obese, Entitled Americans who sacrifice liberty for security are, and the Globalist Technocrats are counting on that.

 

[Danke]