Follow up on Green city acres

Curtis Stone, a row model for urban farming, has found new ways to improve his business using an innovative planting technique.

This new tool is revolutionary. Not only it saves time, it saves money. The process is not complex at all. It is called the paper pot transplanter. Part of the machine is made out of cardboard folded in an accordion shape, it is used to contain soil and seeds. The soil is put in the cardboard units with the seeds. After the germination of the seeds, the manual planting machine can be used. This surely is the invention all farmers were waiting for!

Curtis Stone is an ex-musician that had a dream. It, unfortunately, didn’t work out for him. He decided to leave that part of his life in the past and start a new journey. He jumped in the vegetable producing industry after being inspired by some farmers. Because the price of land was too high, he decided to grow food around his neighbourhood on people’s lawns. It really worked. He went from earning less than the minimum wage to being a successful business owner.

He has a wife and they are waiting for their newborn child. Curtis has a youtube channel and he wrote a book on urban farming. We can all go to his great site where you can buy fruits and vegetables and get them delivered to your house. Since urban farming is quickly expanding, Stone is opening workshops in Victoria, B.C. He ‘s also an instructor to show people how to grow a crop in their backyard. It is called profitable market gardening.

Curtis Stone eventually went through some rough times. Like everybody. The difference is that he took his fate into his own hands and started to dig. He is a good example of perseverance. You may be tired of people telling you to work hard but it is so true. Let’s be the change you want to see in the word.

( Written by Chelsia Kamdem ;edited by Sephora Aké and Fernanda Zeve )