City Farms in Cincinnati
December 2, 2008
Are you looking for some city land to grow some food on? Well, here is your chance! Vice Mayor David Crowley wants the city administration to publish a list of all the city owned, otherwise unusable plots of land and offer them cheap to people willing to plant on them and keep them blight free.
City farms aren’t a new concept, but its great that our city is exploring this option. My dad talked about growing up in Oakley with “victory gardens” as a kid during WWII. Only today’s city garden is being used as a way for cities to go green and use up the land that is otherwise “undevelopable and useless.” These small and odd shaped parcels usually go uncared for and turn blighted. Not only does it reduce our cities over all carbon foot print, but it helps beautify it as well.
I think its great. I wish I was a better gardener with more time. I’d think about getting a plot of land myself.
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Paul Willham | December 2, 2008 at 11:54 am
Urban gardening is a great opportunities for neighborhoods. the only caveat that I have is that it is extremely important to have the soil tested or use raised beds with fresh soil if you intend to plant vegetables. Most urban sites have high levels of lead and other contaminates and you need to be aware of the soild you are working with.
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Mike Loughnane | December 2, 2008 at 6:56 pm
You get the land, I’ll do the gardening. Have the time. Seems to be plenty of parcels in OTR – Race street area.
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