Mobile Urban Farm

Camosun innovations （CI）和TOPSOIL正在共同努力开发一个移动城市农场的原型，以更环保、可持续和对社会负责的方式大幅减少运营小型城市农场所需的时间和能源。作为卡莫森学院的应用研究和开发中心，CI在为当地企业开发模块化解决方案方面有着良好的记录。位于CI内的是Camosun技术访问中心（CTAC），这是加拿大60个这样的中心之一，也是卑诗省的第一个中心，专注于先进制造超过十年。TOPSOIL是维多利亚州第一家也是唯一一家利用非耕地为餐馆和周边社区生产食物的城市农业企业，汇集了来自不同行业的人员——包括建筑、工程、农业、地方政府、房地产开发和餐饮业——通过实施生产性农场来改造空置的城市土地。在过去的七年中，TOPSOIL成功地简化了生产和分销系统，使他们能够为大维多利亚地区的三十多家餐馆和成千上万的个人种植数万磅高质量的新鲜本地农产品。TOPSOIL Farm单元是可持续农业的“瑞士军刀”——一个多用途工具包，适用于各种可能性。大约60%的农场总时间花在收获后的过程中，如清洗、包装、储存和跟踪农产品。通过自动化和简化这一过程，完全集成的TOPSOIL移动城市农场将给任何个人，机构，组织或社区实施一个成功的农场的能力。该项目将成为一个活生生的创新范例，鼓励更多的当地人参与粮食生产和准备，表明城市粮食生产可以是一个有意义和可行的职业选择，并将创建农场，以重要和持久的方式促进人们的健康和福祉。农场单元将使人们学习如何以可持续和经济可行的方式种植大量新鲜的当地农产品，并有可能在加拿大和北美各地被采用和适应。TOPSOIL打算与其他农场创新者合作，帮助其他城市农场发展，为社区提供采用完全集成的模块化农业系统的机会。

Camosun Innovates (CI) and TOPSOIL are combining their efforts in order to develop a prototype Mobile Urban Farm to dramatically reduce the necessary time and energy needed to operate small-scale urban farms in a greener, sustainable, and socially responsible fashion. The applied research and development hub at Camosun College, CI has a proven track record of developing modular solutions for local businesses. Housed within CI is the Camosun Technology Access Centre (CTAC), one of sixty such centres across Canada and the first in BC, with more than a ten-year focus on advanced manufacturing. TOPSOIL is the first and only Urban agriculture business in Victoria utilizing non-arable land to produce food for restaurants and the surrounding community, bringing together people from varied professions - including architecture, engineering, farming, local government, property development, and the restaurant industry - in order to transform vacant urban land by implementing productive farms. Over the past seven years, TOPSOIL has successfully streamlined production and distribution systems which allow them to grow tens of thousands of pounds of high quality fresh local produce for over thirty restaurants and thousands of individuals across the Greater Victoria area. The TOPSOIL Farm unit is the "Swiss Army Knife" of sustainable farming - a multi-purpose toolkit adaptable to a wide range of possibilities. Approximately 60% of the total hours spent on a farm are in post-harvest processes, such as washing, packaging, storing and tracking produce. By automating and streamlining this process, the fully integrated TOPSOIL Mobile Urban Farm will give any individual, institution, organization or community the ability to implement a successful farm. This project will become a living example of innovation, encouraging more local people to participate in food production and preparation, demonstrating that urban food production can be a meaningful and viable career choice and will create farms that nurture peoples' health and well-being in significant and lasting ways. The farm unit will allow people to learn how to grow large amounts of fresh local produce in a sustainably and financially viable way, and has the potential to be adopted and adapted across Canada and North America. TOPSOIL intends to reach out to fellow farm innovators to help other urban farms develop, providing communities with the opportunity to adopt fully integrated modular farming systems.