About Us
KiW Urban Harvester’s initiative is to transform urban green spaces into anything sustainably edible. We seek to educate ourselves and others on how to grow food in urban settings, preserve the harvested vegetables and seeds, and the basics of how to make a potential profit out of urban farming.
We practice a sharing backyards/SPIN farming model which means that community members freely lend us their urban space to grow food in return for a small return of the harvest. We offer support to anybody in our area who is looking for land to grow on, even if they want land independently of KWUH. See here to find out who is lending or looking for land in the KW area.
Our practicing agriculture techniques are based on the principles of permaculture, biointensive agriculture, and forest gardening design.
Presently, we are working on a few different projects. First, we are developing a series of workshops we’d like to put on the coming months on various gardening techniques. On February 6th, 2010 from 12:00-2:00 at 55 Euclid Ave KWUH will be hosting a vermicomposting workshop. The cost for this workshop is only $10 and you go home with a vermicomposter!
This summer we will be holding a spot at the Ktichener Farmer’s market, either one or two Saturdays a month. In May we are hoping to sell seedlings and in the following months up until October we are hoping to have produce for sale.
We are also hoping to implement weekly guerrilla gardening festivities in varying spots around town. Ideas? If you have some – send them our way and let’s make it happen!
Likewise, we are also hoping to GPS all the edible fruit, nut, and berry trees and bushes in the area. We’d like to have a map of this on our website as a free resource for any foragers to use.
We would love to have you come and get involved. Whether that’s just coming along for the gardening fun or planning an event or workshop. Whatever it is, we want it!
Join our Facebook Group.
Using this wiki
In case you hadn't noticed, there's a gray bar at the top of the page under where it says "Making the Urban Eatable". Scroll over this to see many menu options and new pages to explore!
And look to the right to see a page on How to edit pages
To become a member, either find the email with the original link to join the wiki and click the link within, or ask Bryn or Emily for the secret password. Or apply using the page to the right called How to join this site and someone will allow you membership.
Have fun!
