For Wally Satzewich, the kick of metropolitan farming is making fat money and sticking it to your Man.

For Wally Satzewich, the kick of metropolitan farming is making fat money and sticking it to your Man.

Thing is, he is carrying it out growing greens that are leafy people’s metres.

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He is one of several urbanites whom prefer to get dirty. That is ironic, because for generations, waves of migrants left the toil that is ragged of country behind to slide to the tidy cubicles regarding the Information Age. And yet city slickers of all stripes are actually down within the soil, sowing veggies like their nation forebears did. Besides some sort of West Coast nirvana that is leguminous you must ask what compels them. In Vancouver at the very least, it seems they are greening up the city for anything from cash, to posh components, to renewal that is urban to muscle tone.

Satzewich’s brand of metropolitan gardening is known as SPIN — “small-plot farming that is intensive — also it means renting the back forty from domestic homeowners, ploughing their yards under and then switching tens and thousands of dollars in earnings selling the high-end produce cultivated by hand. Continue reading “For Wally Satzewich, the kick of metropolitan farming is making fat money and sticking it to your Man.”