Perho Green City Farm

This book­let in­tro­duces you to Sea­son 2018 of Perho Green City Farm.  You may find in­for­ma­tion about dif­fer­ent types of veg­eta­bles and herbs grown at the farm, as well as soil prepa­ra­tion tech­niques and cul­ti­va­tion.

Perho Green City Farm is lo­cated at the edge of the Malmi Cam­pus of Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege (within the north­ern sub­urb of Hel­sinki, Fin­land). Stu­dents in the restau­rant, tourism and busi­ness sec­tors have now op­por­tu­nity to ex­pe­ri­ence where the food comes from, ac­cord­ing to eco­log­i­cal and sus­tain­able gas­tro­nomic phi­los­o­phy, from field to kitchen and cus­tomer’s plate. The farm is a so-called “phe­nom­e­non-based learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment” in which sus­tain­able en­trepreneur­ship, mar­ket­ing and prod­uct de­vel­op­ment can also be linked to vo­ca­tional train­ing & ed­u­ca­tion.

Perho Green City Farm is build upon on the idea of ​​the Com­mu­nity Sup­ported Agri­cul­ture model, which sup­ports small-scale and or­ganic farm­ing ac­tiv­i­ties, com­bin­ing ur­ban and stake­hold­ers.

The cul­ti­va­tion of the first har­vest sea­son be­gan in May 2017 and was based mainly on so-called “land im­prove­ment”, where the ob­jec­tive was to re­vi­tal­ize nu­tri­ents and micro­organ­isms of soil by or­ganic meth­ods.

Perho Green City Farm is the place where the food is grown eco­log­i­cally and sus­tain­ably. Farm­ers, stu­dents, staff and other stake­hold­ers to­gether con­trib­ute to the de­vel­op­ment of healthy, nu­tri­tious and de­li­cious food cul­ture.

Watch a video, how it all started in the year 2017.

The first cul­ti­va­tion of sea­son 2017 in­cluded:

• pump­kins
• sun­flow­ers
• Finnish broad beans
• land im­prove­ment grass mix­ture
• cab­bage plants
• Pota­toes (Annabelle and Nicola)

*Pho­tos and videos by Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege; oth­er­wise a pho­tog­ra­pher is men­tioned.