Rod Olson is a Small Plot Intensive Farmer in Calgary Alberta. Rod and Chad Kile of Leaf and Lyre Urban Farms, provide the labour for their small plot intensive farming sites. But there are other options, volunteers who show up to get trained on gardening, labour contributed by members of a Community Supported Agriculture option. As Calgary's pioneers in blazing the trail for urban farming, Rod and Chad are the quiet advocates for a new mode of farming.
Rod Olson 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/
