City Farmer is a well established non-profit group supporting urban farming in Vancouver. They are partners with a service called Sharing Backyards which is essentially the same as my concept for the eFarmony service.
Mike did not have a technology background and couldn’t tell me very much about the Sharing Backyards service but did offer some other good ideas and insights into urban farming. I will contact Sharing Backyards directly next.
— Jan 27 Update —
Some insights into urban farming Mike shared:
Space is the limiting factor in Vacnouver. The biggest problem for gardeners or urban farmers is having access to enough land.
Vancouver offers a big tax break to companies that convert some of their land into urban farming space. Urban farming start-ups have struck deals with those companies to do all the work to set up and operate an urban farm and then take a cut of the tax break. Example: SOLEfood
just a note.
# I’d like you to be more transparent with your blog
* Please post your coming weeks action plan.
* The results of the activities ( … you don’t need a synthesis in each post. )
* The synthesis can be with your bi-weekly Canvas update ( it may be good to do it weekly)
* Note: not being able to get meetings arranged is just as important as getting meetings arranged.
* Blog what you are doing. (try for daily)
* I’d like everyone on the team to post to the blog.