Rebecca Cuttler, Executive Assistant to Joel Solomon at Renewal Partners, has written an article for FarmFolk CityFolk Magazine about Vancouver's urban farming scene.  A print version of the magazine is available for free at specialty grocery and wine shops in British Columbia.  

Farm Folk Can Be City Folk
Fall/Winter 2012
By Rebecca Cuttler

If you are paying attention, you might catch it out of the corner of your eye: an almost hidden half-acre where Vancouver’s urban landscape gives way to a lush market garden bursting with flowers, multi-coloured beans and deep red beets. Farmers on 57th is one of a growing number of farms situated within Vancouver’s city limits. 

Karen Ageson and Tessa Wetherill are the farmers in ‘Farmers on 57th’. I’m meeting with them in a cluster of lawn chairs next to the market garden stand, and a neighbour and cSA member interrupts us. She has a small plastic bag in her hand, out of which poke some seedlings with leaves that range from green to purple to a near-blue. “Here’s the rainbow kale I was telling you about,” she says, handing it to Karen. We all take a look. Karen and Tessa have never seen this variety before.  READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>