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The Farmer Incubator Project

The Farmers Incubator Project is a demand-driven series of programs providing farmland, resources, education, training, and assistance in Spanish.
  • Status: Active
  • Submitted: Wed Dec 24, 2008   |   Last updated: Wed Dec 24, 2008
  • Location(s): Orleans
    only these New Orleans neighborhoods - Central City
  • Topics(s): Community development, Environment, Other
  • Tag(s): urban agriculture, food, social enterprise, enthic, farming, beautification, Latinos, immigrants, food systems, trainings, community gardens
  • Views: 875   |   Comments: 1

Details

The Farmers Incubator Project is a model for economic development and social justice - from community gardens that provide urban emerging Latino farmers a place to grow healthy food, to agriculture production initiatives that assist small emerging farmers blossom. In turn, the Cooperative supported farmers develop a community food system that is balance, sustainable to them and their neighbors.

Project Scope: Vision, Aim, & Objectives

Why this project is being done:
LFCL provide access to farmland,agricultural resources, education and training so members can grow healthy food in a sustainable manner, create social entrepreneurship designed to address specific socioeconomic needs.
Who or what this project would impact:
The mission of the LFCL is to create a sustainable local food system in the Greater New Orleans area as well as serve as a means to empower the areas Latino population and to improve their socio-economic situation.
Project intends to address:
The Project's goal is to learn, identify and build support to influence local elected officials about food security among Latino families living in the Greater of New Orleans area.
Included or excluded:
STRATEGY 1)LOW INCOME FOOD NEEDS:Anti-hunger 2)BROAD GOALS:Food systems. 3)COMMUNITY FOCUS:Micro farms 4)SELF-RELIANCE/EMPOWERMENT:Local assest,local power. 5)LOCAL AGRICULTURE:Farmers and consumers. 6)SYSTEM-ORIENTED:Interdisciplinary approach

Help or Additional Resources Needed

Materials needed (wish list):
-Urban vacant lot with a 5-year lease -Shed -Garden tools -Soil -$1,000 per year (pay coordinator) -Tieler -Banner/signs -Irrigation system -Web-site maintenance -Water (water bill payment) -Munch -Truck (move people,tool and veggies) FARMING VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME
Help needed from other people:
Fundraising Development Team Website Guru Project Coordinator Board members (must speak Spanish) Journalist Garden Volunteers Farmers Market Volunteers

Comments

"healthy food"

Submitted by ex-yat on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 5:15pm.

I grew up in N.O. My heart broke when I witnessed on TV the devastation from the broken levees after Katrina. Now I worry about the term "healthy food" grown in soil saturated with every bit of pollution, waste, & toxin imaginable, floating around the city for weeks. Let's not forget the flooded Superfund sites. SO please tell me how the organizers of the these community gardens & sustainable farms will DEcontaminate soil to produce healthy food? Or perhaps they plan to spend taxpayer contributions shipping in TONS of clean soil from very far away? And who's thinking of the long-term effects on local children?

I hope there is no cause for concern, but please explain why! I'll be watching for a post.

concerned ex-yat