Enjoy the taste of home-grown tomatoes?  How about getting most of your own produce from that vacant lot nearby?  Or how about turning part of that huge lawn into an edible landscape?  Today, May 21, RCFC members revisit their agrarian roots, when Dave Stewart introduces Matthew "Quint" Redmond to present an urban agriculture future he calls Agriburbia®.   Agriburbia® expands on the life many of us remember when the family garden provided fresh vegetables right outside our door.  But the concept goes further, re-integrating commercial food production directly into new and existing communities while incorporating alternative energy, natural storm water management, and pedestrians to create a sustainable future...  
 

Urban Agriculture is thriving in numerous states and Canada, with ongoing experiments in Virginia, Vermont, North Carolina, Idaho, Illinois, Georgia, Wisconsin, Colorado and California. The Urban Land Institute estimates that up to 200 such projects are developed or in progress.

Quint Redmond obtained his BS Geology, an MS in Urban and Regional Planning and a Masters in Landscape Architecture.  During graduate studies he met his wife and business partner Jenny, and together they founded and co-own AgriNETx LLC and Agriburbia LLC.   He has been an adjunct faculty in the College of Architecture and Planning at University of Colorado, Denver, teaching Landscape Geometrics and Quantitative Sustainability.  Jenny has a BS Biology and Masters in Urban and Regional Planning.  Together Quint and Jenny run Table Mountain Farm in Golden, a "model property" for Agriburbia.