Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens in the City

Originally posted on Porch.com Evan Dunn Raising chickens can bring a slice of country living to your home in the city. Eggs fresh from the hen house are healthier and tastier than store-bought, and you get the satisfaction of knowing you farmed them yourself. Chicken litter—the spilled feed, shed feathers, chicken poop, and organic bedding… Continue reading Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens in the City

Plant Talk: How Plants Communicate

How Do Plants Talk? Most people have heard that talking to plants will help them grow, but how do plants communicate with each other? Plants communicate with each other using volatile organic compounds or VOCs. VOCs allow plants to “speak” with other plants and organisms. Plants send out VOCs when they are in danger so… Continue reading Plant Talk: How Plants Communicate

From Food Desert to Food Oasis: USDA Grant Brings Sustainably Grown Produce to the Promise Zone

Everyone should have access to fresh food. Sadly, however, in many urban centers across the country, food accessibility is a growing and multifaceted concern. In an effort to combat food scarcity here in Orlando, Fleet Farming, an agricultural movement that turns residential lawns into microfarms, teamed up with community partners to make fresh food a… Continue reading From Food Desert to Food Oasis: USDA Grant Brings Sustainably Grown Produce to the Promise Zone

What Type of Composter Are You? Here Are 4 Methods From a Composting Pro.

If 2019 was the year the world woke up to climate change, then 2020 is the year we all should get more acquainted with our waste. Americans are a blithely wasteful lot, producing more than four pounds of trash per person each day. That shakes out to about 267 million tons annually. And 40% of… Continue reading What Type of Composter Are You? Here Are 4 Methods From a Composting Pro.

Cycles and Sprouts

Since the fall of 2017, both adult and youth students across west Orlando – from Holden Heights to Parramore to Pine Hills – have participated in Cycles and Sprouts, an urban gardening and bicycle repair educational program funded by the Aetna Foundation. It is one of many health and wellness projects that were awarded funding… Continue reading Cycles and Sprouts

Lukas Nursery & Butterfly Encounter

If you are looking for a beautiful oasis to clear your mind and enjoy the outdoors, Lukas Nursery is the perfect place to do so. The fourth generation, family-owned business has been serving the Central Florida community for over 100 years. The Oviedo nursery provides one of the most diverse landscape plant selections. They offer a… Continue reading Lukas Nursery & Butterfly Encounter

Farm Bill 2019

Every five to ten years the US government is charged with the duty to pass a new Farm Bill. The Farm Bill is a piece of legislation that guarantees vital funding for nutritional assistance programs, crop insurance, farming incentives and subsidies, etc. The updated version of this monumental, $867 billion piece of legislation was passed… Continue reading Farm Bill 2019

United Way Volunteers From Rock Bridge Church

In May 2018, over 100 student volunteers from Rock Bridge Community Church in Northern Georgia came down to Orlando and partook in a series of action days in partnership with United Way. They aided Fleet Farming and Orlando Permaculture in revitalizing Audubon Park Covenant Church’s beautiful grounds. The students were a massive help in clearing… Continue reading United Way Volunteers From Rock Bridge Church

Toyota Funds Edible School Garden at Catalina Elementary

Toyota Executives from New York to Japan joined together to grow food for children hungry for a school garden by supporting Fleet Farming with the funds to build a school garden at a 100% free and reduced lunch school, Catalina Elementary in Orlando, Florida. After a long day of building, planting, and working together, we… Continue reading Toyota Funds Edible School Garden at Catalina Elementary

A Billboard of Health & Wellness

The Winter Park Memorial Hospital has partnered with Fleet Farming to introduce wheelchair-accessible garden beds to their campus. What better way to represent a mission towards health and wellness, than to grow vibrant, happy veggies as an oasis for nature and health? This edible landscape will now be providing high-yielding produce to feed the community… Continue reading A Billboard of Health & Wellness

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