"The problem had been with cars the disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harms way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest in to the sea all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another - particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e., covered with tar, full of smoke, and short of fish."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Trilogy
Hold up! Lets slow down a little.
In our attempt, as put so adequately by Douglas Adams, to get from one place to another as quickly as possible have we lost sight of the slower processes that surround us? Maybe getting in touch with the slower traditional processes, like say growing our own food instead of running to the supermarket, is one step in the direction to harmony with earth.
This will be my first year as an urban farmer on my small 1000 square foot piece of land in Downsview Park hereafter called Food in the Belly. This is also the inaugural post of my blog Food in the Belly, where I will connect with the slower processes in life and share this with readers. This blog will contain my trials and errors as an urban farmer this summer, and my connection to other slow processes like knitting, sewing and cooking.
How did I get a 1000 square foot plot of land in Downsview? Well Fresh City Farms has been kind enough to lend out it's land to 22 urban entrepreneurs looking to start their own market gardens. This fits with their goal of eventually training 100 farmers in the city producing 1,000,000 pounds of organic produce in Toronto within the next two years. However these 22 entrepreneurs, hereafter called member farmers, need a little financial support to start this year off right. Pledges are being taken, in exchange for Fresh City swag, to help us buy supplies like seed, compost, farming tools, etc. Donators can visit Kickstart (below) to make pledges:
This is the link to the Fresh City Farms website:
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