Agriculture

IDEAS FROM OUR VISIONING SESSION

If you would like help create The AREA by implementing your project or making any of the ideas below HAPPEN, please contact us!

Note for food producers/gardeners: A primary component of the permaculture garden at The AREA is to share knowledge.  A garden plot is free to any group whose proposal meets the minimum sharing requirement that incorporates meetings or workshops on site. Facility rental rates are $40.00/hr (discounts for full day rental and members).  We encourage your group to charge a small fee for your workshops and to place a prominent sign at your garden plot with a description of your gardening project.  Young and old visitors of The AREA are proving to be enthusiastic learners of all things growing.

Mycology

Bees

Cash crop for local restaurants

Chickens

Community harvest (of area and individual gardens)

Cook the crop with local chefs

Sheet Mulching

Farmers’ market

Food – performance and teaching Kitchen

Green house

Grey water usage

Herbs

In-ground watering system

Indigenous grasses and seeds

Kids garden

LIGHTS in the garden!

Native landscapes

Nitrogen fixing plants

Permablitz

Permaculture application

Plant exchange open every day – source of great starters for The AREA garden

Plants as sound barrier from trains

Rain garden

Raised garden – soup box, for kitchen herds

Fruit and Nut Forest

Solar Pump

Romantic garden

SEATING!

Seed collection

Seed exchange

Implementation of Swales and Trails systems

Conscious garden design

Multi-purpose Teaching facility

Vermaculture

Vertical garden- stacked, shipping cubes, pallet gardens