On New Ground

After attending the Eco-Farm Conference, I continued on my quest for ideas and possible answers about where to go next. Luckily, my time off from teaching in January coincides with other folks' time off from farming, so I signed up for yet another workshop, this time with Curtis Stone of Green City Acres , who was away from his urban farm plots in British Colombia and on book tour, promoting The Urban Farmer, Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land.  Stone’s premise is that quite a bit of food can be produced on a small (sub)urban lot or collection of lots, and it isn’t relevant whether you own or lease the land. As it states on the back cover of the book, Stone’s approach involves, “minimizing risk and maximizing profit by using intensive production, and making a good living growing high-yield, high-value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else’s).” As someone who did not own a backyard, was reluctant to invest in land that wasn’t mine and take