Milkwood – it’s always a pleasure working with these committed legends. This week we took the students on a tour of some projects and homes we think are downright awesome – like Pocket City Farms. 
Once a bowling green, it’s now a flourishing restaurant, playground, yoga space, food forest and market garden that’s transformed 1200m2 of grass into food.
Image from Pocket City Farms
Pocket City Farms consists of a team of five and is a “new” project. New in the sense that their first crops are only 7 weeks old, but not so new in the sense that they’ve been working on bringing this dream to life for around six years – good things take time and *really* good people to see it all through.
Zag, answering our million questions
As someone who grew up on a city farm in Brisbane and helped get the Hobart City Farm up and running, seeing other similar projects kicking arse is more than heart warming, I’m a firm believer that this is world saving stuff. Seriously, in the face of climate change, peak oil, peak soil (yes, that’s right soil), food sovereignty and crazy politics – addressing unsustainable food production by countering it with regenerative food and community cultivation practices is where it’s at.
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Hi guys, really cool to see a reclaimed bowling green. one question though, did you do any soil tests for toxic sh*t? or any remediation type stuff beforehand? I have drooled over a couple of former bowling greens and dreamed of getting them converted in a along the lines of what these folk have done, but I have also known people who have managed functioning bowling greens who have said that they thought that there was probably more chemical sprays per square meter on a bowling green than practically any other land use… kind of put a downer on my buzz. Interested to know what the situation was/is in this example.
Cheers
The Pocket City Farm team did extensive soil testing and they all came up clean. Zag did say that it had been fallow for 2 years before they took it on. IT’s true that generally chemicals are used, but how much and of what will probably vary a lot. Do the soil tests and go from there 🙂
This is awesome thank you Hannah for sharing.