Came accross this post today on Transition Culture site: (See post here.)
Transition Cultures, whose phrase is: 'an evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent' is about how we can action our society to transition into sustainable communities. It is a global organisation with local groups that meet, discuss, organise and action things within their community. I havnt been involved with them in the UK yet but in Alpine, Texas there is a thriving group who helped us on some of the projects at La Loma Del Chivo, (link here for post.)
Their post today is about SPIN farming group, who take a re-look at the way people think about bringing local small-scale produce into the urban place. SPIN's website 'Thinking of Farming, Think again' is an exciting wealth of knowledge and advise for creating local produce and creating an income from it; 'patchwok farming.' As is described in transition's post post today:
'SPIN farming strips out any talk of politics or ideology that underpins approaches such as organics or permaculture, stating “think in terms of a production system, not a belief system”, although it doesn employ organic techniques. It can start on parcels of land as small as 1,000 square feet, and can be spread across a number of pieces of land.'
This method of farming could alter the ways that planners and architects are currently trying to implement spaces for small-scale farming and urban food production into the scene to one that can operate in a de-centralised and less-space-organsied way, a move from the allotment designated region and a move towards the use of SLOAP, front gardens, un-used lawns for not only the hobby-orientated veg-garden and unemployment to the local food network and self-employed work community.
