Anita Gregoire on what needs to happen to educate new farmers in urban communities. She describes the importance of community gardens, especially those centred at schools. She talks about taking down the chain link fences around schools and creating school gardens. To make urban agriculture happen, we need to start ... and the focus should be on educating new farmers.
Anita Gregoire is an advocate and pioneer of urban Community Supported Agriculture in Edmonton and Alberta. She is one of Edmonton's innovators in Small Plot Intensive Farming (SPIN Farming). Her work has focused as much on training new urban farmers as growing food.
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/
