Can an urban farmer earn a living wage? | Teresa O'Donnell | TEDxHouston
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Urban farming is particularly interesting in a city with so much available space. In Houston's Plant It Forward Farms, refugees are given access to acres of land that they maintain and manage. Several of these plots have gone on to provide sustainable income for these families, and have gone on to become community centers for neighbors to come together and celebrate these previously empty spaces, and the people who have given them a new life. Teresa O’Donnell wants to live in a city with a farm in every neighborhood. She sees refugees operating these farms and becoming a bit like rock star urban farmers in their communities. And as executive director of the Houston-based non-profit Plant It Forward Farms, she is working towards these goals, one plot of land, one farm and one American Dream-seeker at a time. Plant It Forward was formed in 2011 as a social entrepreneurial venture by the software company to connect the dots between unused land, refugee famers in need of acreage, and Houston’s need for locally grown produce. Plant It Forwards Farms has been highlighted in the PBS series, “Food Forward,” on PBS Local News Hour, in the Houston Chronicle, and in Sugar & Rice and Edible Houston magazines, among other media outlets. Learn more about Plant It Forward at www.plant-it-forward.org. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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Took 10 minutes of build up to start talking about urban farming, and then there wasn't anything informative given.
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awesome...let see the $$ on paper...costs/ profit/ taxes...
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I'm from asia I hope to be a urban farmer there so much stress here in my home country
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we don't need refugees in our country we don't need more people coming in here there's not even enough work for Americans that are here and what about the kids that are graduating from high school where are they going to work there's going to be millions of them graduating every year where are they going to work and what about the people that are graduating from college where are they going to work where are all these jobs going to come from. And you're talking about bringing in more refugees from other countries are you fucking crazy.
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local farming is profitable
curtis stone has a channel, makes 70k a year on a half acre. -
Yeah...we just need another Billion Refugees....problem solved....Market Gardening = Subsistence Farming....
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Jeez lu eez. Another code word: "Living Wage."
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How about organic chickens and eggs? They taste good.
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Excellent. I'm new to gardening because I have access to land where I'm living...and it can happen: that beautiful garden with vegetables.
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