A Video Introduction to Raleigh City Farm

Rusty
01/20 02:06 PM

Permaculture FTW.

Tony Woodard
01/20 10:17 PM

Everything I read about this sounds wonderful, but that kid in me that had to slave away in the garden through the heat of many summers cries bullshit. I grew up on a farm and having a garden large enough to feed just a small family is incredibly hard work. It’s great they are doing this, and more power to them, but I worked damn hard to get out of that cornfield and think anyone who longs to get back to it must be naive or a masochist.

smitty
01/22 06:01 PM

Why does this have to be downtown?  There is actual farmland less than 5 miles away.

Teelinyoulikeitis
01/22 07:33 PM

I like people like smitty who gripe about this being downtown. As if they prefer a vacant lot put to no use instead. Much like this lot has been for the past five years.

Yeah, Yeah, I know .... some developer should build something there. Well why haven’t they already? Smitty, downtown Raleigh will welcome your million$ of investment.

What are you waiting for?

smitty
01/22 07:48 PM

I like you too, Teelinyoulikeitis.  I hope you can come up with a better reason than it’s better than a vacant lot.  I don’t really care that it’s downtown, but it seems awfully silly considering how rural most of Wake county is.

Tellinyoulikeitis
01/24 12:05 PM

I don’t need to come up with a better reason. The folks proposing the urban farm already have. That’s what the video is for.

stacistarlight
02/07 01:59 PM

I’m excited about this effort and would like to volunteer a few hours a week this spring/summer. I live about a block from the Blount St site.