As cities expand and urbanization increases farms and rural areas will be eaten up by the city, leaving little room for agriculture. In Vancouver it is a common sight to see small community gardens around the downtown areas, however a recent project has just gone underway to build a full fledged working farm, that will create jobs and sell produce to local businesses. On a half acre of parking lot in the Downtown Eastside, among the syringes and used condoms, volunteers have erected the wooden frames of the farm which will utilize spin farming (system of rotating crops which make it possible to gross $50,000+ from a half- acre) to create a profitable inner-city farm.
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