Many people like the idea of growing food or farming, but are often intimidated by the uncertainty and hard work involved in making a living from Agriculture.
Meet Curtis Stone, The Urban Farmer. For the last few years Curtis has been smashing stereotypes about what it takes to start growing a food and making a decent profit from it. No land? No Problem! There are plenty of empty unused spaces in most cities that are perfectly good for growing high quality organic hyper-local produce.
I am going to keep this article short and just share a few links to let you explore for yourself.
I think people would rather hear about what Curtis is up to from Curtis, which is why I'm formally inviting him to join Steemit and start contributing content on here, I might make a buck or two promoting his work, but after that, unless he decides not to, I will let him share his life's work with you himself.
Check out his YouTube Channel Too!
Oh and Buy his Book!
Oh and did I forget to mention he is able to make about $75 000 on 1/3 of an acre? Originally, most of that land wasn't even his!
If you wanna know how he does it, check out the links!
Happy Harvesting!
Bravo! WHo knew!!!!
I know! Amazing what one person can do! A true inspiration. @ecoknowme
I'm a big fan of Curtis. I have his book and would like to take the online course (but not sure how the time difference Canada-Japan would affect that), so I definitely agree: if you're interested in farming, in permaculture, in anarchism, social activism, then he deserves your serious attention!
Also recommend Jean Martin Fortier's book, The Market Gardener. Fortier seems to be a bit heavier on the how to in the garden and Curtis shows you how to smash efficiencies and business. There is always the SPIN farming group, Bio-intensive website, and Eliot Coleman, But in my opinion, Fortier and Stone are the 3.0 information the world needs to pay most attention to :)