Urban Farmers Want to Stay in Houston. All They Need Is Land.
IMAGE: BETHANY OCHS
Developers opt for ventures that turn a profit, leaving farmers to rely on public and private benefactors to donate land.
By Meredith Nudo
Houstonia Magazine
September 9, 2024
Excerpt:
In a city like Houston, where concrete and steel have subsumed prairies and bayous, finding and maintaining the necessary land offers urban farmers a challenging masterclass in patience, persistence, and faith.
Constant Ngouala became the first graduate of Plant It Forward’s Urban Farm Business Class in 2011, subsequently serving as the Houston organization’s first farm manager. He now splits his time between Chef Constant Sustainable Farm (his six-acre farm in Santa Fe), the farmers markets where he sells his vegetables, and teaching incoming farmers going through the program that he helped pioneer.
“Right now I’m training six farmers,” Ngouala says. “They’re going to Rice University, to [biosciences lecturer] Dr. Joe Novak, and they’re getting some business classes, too. Then when they finish, they can make a business plan. They can run their own businesses.”
Plant It Forward’s core mission involves helping resettled refugees—mainly from Africa and Southeast Asia—economically establish themselves via small farming businesses. In addition to the six apprentices, the nonprofit currently works with a network of more than 60 new American growers and leases land through its Land Access program, including at four sites in Houston that total six acres, and an additional one-acre pilot site at the Coastal Prairie Conservancy’s Indiangrass Prairie Preserve.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/urban-farmers-want-to-stay-in-houston-all-they-need-is-land/
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