Course 5: Recap and Next Steps

This video wraps up Course 5: Innovative Production. The unique constraints of urban growing, including the high cost of limited growing space, proximity to neighbors, and urban soil conditions, often lead urban farmers to explore innovative production practices. These practices come in many forms, from intensive planting strategies to controlled environment agriculture to insect agriculture. There is no one definition of innovative production, and this term can sometimes be misunderstood as only applying to high tech, indoor and controlled environment agriculture. However, as we have shown throughout this course, CEA is just one form of innovative agriculture that you may encounter in urban areas.

Ultimately, one of the most innovative facets of urban agriculture is the connection between consumers and food production within a local food system. In many ways, urban agriculture perpetuates a culture of knowledge about cultivating, growing, harvesting, and processing food from generation to generation, skills that can be lost when centralized agricultural production happens away from population centers.

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