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Video - Anita Gregoire: An Urban Farmer on Urban Farming Economics

Anita Gregoire is a pioneer in Edmonton with her version of SPIN Farming. Anita does urban farming On Borrowed Ground.  She borrows backyards from neighbours to produce food. Her background as a teacher comes to the fore as she teaches her customers how to help her grow their food.

An advocate for Community Supported Agriculture in Alberta, she also is the contact for the website http://www.csaalberta.com/, the place to find CSA farmers in Alberta.

Anita answers the question: what are the economics for an urban farmer?

Anita Gregoire was interviewed by the Alberta Land-use Knowledge Network as part of their online course and discussion of Urban Agriculture and Local Food in the autumn of 2013. The course, Growing Insights can be viewed at http://growinginsights.ca/