Why We Should Be Urban Farming

We are running out of space for farmland and a third of all food that is produced is wasted. Ken Dunn has been called the greenest man in Chicago and he's on a crusade to turn our food waste into productive farmland--right in the middle of the city!

Special Thanks to:

Ken Dunn, David Durstewitz, Lindsay Roadruck, and Jide Oke

The Resource Center Chicago

Danielle Nierenberg

The Plant: Growing Off Grid (old Good Stuff video about another cool farming operation in Chicago)

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Driftless Pony Club

The Pines

Jason Shaw

Todd Umhoefer (Old Earth)

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[jr]

My Church was randomly doing this with a lot we bought a while ago. Currently we donate over 3 tons of food every 6 months from that garden.

[isaiahuelmen]

Algae!
It's edible, tasty, easy to grow, can grow anywhere, nutritious, easily modifiable genetically, and is perfect for hydroponic farming.
And can be used to make oil.
Need I say more?

[harrisnaeem]

I think the best way would be to atleast start growing the veggies, we consume more often, right in our backyards. And these indoor/backyard farming lessons should be practically taught in schools by encouraging children to grow their own food at home.

[SeattleTyy]

I can't get enough of this series.
It's much more insightful than any regular exposé on cable television.

[wilecatrexy]

Mostly what makes a city hotter is concrete and asphalt that stores the Sun's heat energy and slowly releases it.

[outsidevoices]

This playlist has given me so much hope for the future of our existence on the planet. It is so easy these days to get bogged down with the doom and gloom of climate change and misuse of land and resources, but this playlist has offered up so many creative, innovative and seemingly do-able solutions! Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity! Keep up the great work! This is better than GOOD STUFF!

[jeff]

Yes !! A no-brainer...he is very correct. See to see the hometown of my youth applying these techniques !

[NinjaFalllow]

!!! This is right up my alley! I'm a Community Health major and had to research a local neighborhood of my city and study the health of that community. I chose the Near Eastside of Indianapolis and I learned that it's a massive food desert- many people don't have convenient transportation to food and grocery stores are very few and far in between. I learned of a group called Growing Places Indy that rose up to fill that gap. They have food gardens planted all over the city and even on some hospital roofs, too! People can go as far as the local high school and pick their own produce and food stamps are accepted. They also give a lot of their produce to local grocery stores, restaurants, and food pantries. Urban agriculture is SO important to cities, especially to impoverished areas and those with little access to grocery stores.

[ECLIPSIFY]

There is no way. Stunning! I was fascinated by the idea of vertical farming and now one the LARGEST vertical farms ever conceived is being built in the city I travel to everyday? That's insane. Why haven't I heard of this sooner?

[phillipperobinson]

Thanks guys. So glad you're getting out there building relationships, cultivating a future, and sharing your humor. Now that IS Awsome.

[dh]

"Because we have given up access to our food system, we've lost a lot of those skills" - incredibly insightful, and it applies to every area of our lives, not just food. We don't live our own lives anymore - we are dependents of a system, and that not only takes away efficiency, it takes away our freedom.

I shy away from advocating Malthus. If we live in a healthy harmony with nature, we will never overpopulate the earth, and the idea of control from above becomes as useless to us as it is ridiculous.

[AgentWaltonSimons]

A while ago my wife suggested that we should get some chickens. Living in a second floor apartment, I asked her where we'd keep them; she replied immediately with, "On the roof!" This became something of a family joke ("How will we keep a cow on the roof, with all the chickens up there, eh?") but I'm slightly terrified to tell her about this playlist...

[ImprovRadiov]

I think this is the best Good Stuff playlist.

[benjaminbone]

Hello! I'm relatively new to the Wheezy Waiter channel. I've gone back and watched most of your posts for about the past two months. I stumbled upon this channel one day watching Crashed Course: U. S. Politics (which is fantastic!). Just wanted to show some love; keep up the good work! Oh yea, I really enjoyed this video. I love when people with access to large audiences make an effort (no matter how small) to inform and encourage people to be more thoughtful, especially when the topic is so grand that it impacts the entire human race and our species' future. Thank you for doing your part.

[stephupurlyf]

This episode got me so emotional!
1) It's such a great hopeful outlook on a our terrible food habits in the US. People are at the for front of making a big difference in agriculture! I love the idea of working in one of these local farms to help your community.

2) This playlist made me also very, VERY proud of The Good Stuff! You guys are making such wonderful videos. I was explaining to my roommate what this video was about, and I was getting quite passionate about it and in the end I let out a satisfied sigh and said "It's good stuff." It was unintentional, but so undeniably true!

Keep up the amazing work, I can wait for "Thrill Seeking".

[FreakingThomas]

You guys just keep getting better. This one is great, awesome video.

[MrWorm-mpvw]

This guy needs more views cause he makes time worthy, purposeful, and education videos.

[jamescc]

We mistakenly allowed big corporations for profit to control our food supply.
Very good information on this video like we don't need to grow a lot of bad nutritious food but grow less healthy food thus save land, time, water and other resources.

[heyitsalex]

What I love about this channel is that you do several videos regarding one topic or issue and it makes it so much more in depth and interesting. Keep up the good work. Just subscribed.

[lisabeee]

They need to do this in the UK! Any urban areas with any land for sale can only be built on due to it being brown belt land - but this system would work well! But these places would need high level securities due to the amount of crime in the areas and I wonder how many local people it would employ. These places would be great for educating children though! Many inner city children think milk, eggs and vegetables etc come from the supermarket! 🙈