Urban Agriculture
Presentation Type
Oral and/or Visual Presentation
Presenter Major(s)
Psychology, Sociology
Mentor Information
Joseph Verschaeve, verschaj@gvsu.edu
Location
Kirkhof Center 2263
Start Date
13-4-2011 9:00 AM
End Date
13-4-2011 9:30 AM
Keywords
Changing Ideas/Changing Worlds, Environment, Social Science, Sustainability
Abstract
Urban agriculture is the practice of growing food in urban reas. The group I participated in worked on a seven week intensive project to discover how to research this topic and what can be done within the confines of the Grand Rapids area. We broke into three working groups and came up with four ideas of how to incorporate this into Grand Rapids. Each group had their own mission statements to work from and we discussed creating an agricultural truck, using a parking garage to cultivate vegetables, having an agro-hub for farmers to connect to each other, as well as having a do it yourself kit. We presented he ideas and one of them, the kit, is in the process of becoming a reality. The focus of the paper is to show Urban agriculture through the sociological imagination and relate it to our community.
Urban Agriculture
Kirkhof Center 2263
Urban agriculture is the practice of growing food in urban reas. The group I participated in worked on a seven week intensive project to discover how to research this topic and what can be done within the confines of the Grand Rapids area. We broke into three working groups and came up with four ideas of how to incorporate this into Grand Rapids. Each group had their own mission statements to work from and we discussed creating an agricultural truck, using a parking garage to cultivate vegetables, having an agro-hub for farmers to connect to each other, as well as having a do it yourself kit. We presented he ideas and one of them, the kit, is in the process of becoming a reality. The focus of the paper is to show Urban agriculture through the sociological imagination and relate it to our community.