Green City Farm

Green City Farm of Perho Col­lege is lo­cated at the edge of the Malmi Cam­pus.

Stu­dents in the restau­rant, tourism and busi­ness sec­tors will have the 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 will act as a so-called “phe­nom­e­non-based learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment” in which en­trepreneur­ship, mar­ket­ing and prod­uct de­vel­op­ment can also be linked to vo­ca­tional train­ing.

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 is based mainly on so-called “land im­prove­ment”, where the ob­jec­tive is to re­vi­tal­ize nu­tri­ents and micro­organ­isms of soil by or­ganic meth­ods.

The cul­ti­va­tion of sea­son 2017 in­cluded:

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

The grow­ing sea­son of 2018 in­cluded fol­low­ing veg­eta­bles:

• beets
• bush beans
• cu­cum­bers
• va­ri­ety of herbs, such as sage, thyme, dill, tar­ragon, rose­mary
• va­ri­ety of green sal­ads
• kale
• fen­nel
• pump­kins
• field flow­ers (sun­flow­ers, buch­wheat, win­ter fetch (Vi­cia vil­losa)

The grow­ing sea­son 2019 in­cludes:

• beets
• va­ri­ety of herbs, such as sage, thyme, dill, tar­ragon, rose­mary
• va­ri­ety of green sal­ads
• va­ri­ety of win­ter kale
• squash (zuc­chini, yel­low squash and striped squash)
• fen­nel
• pump­kins
• field flow­ers (sun­flow­ers, buch­wheat, win­ter fetch (Vi­cia vil­losa)

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.

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Green City Farm – 2018

Green City Farm 2017

Green City Farm – Sea­son 2017