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PR INQUIRES

Michael Ableman info@michaelableman.com

Sustainable Food Trust

This Urban Farm Rehabilitates People 

Ecotopia Radio

ECO 398 – Michael Ableman discusses “Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier”.

Santa Cruz Sentinel

On Gardening: The possibility of Urban Farms 

Farmer to Farmer Podcast

Michael Ableman of Foxglove Farm and Sole Food Street Farm on Urban & Rural Farming

KQED Radio with Michael Krasny

Michael Ableman in the Power of the ‘Street Farm’. 

The Candy Palmater Show

Growing food, jobs, and hope: New book profiles the work of Sole Food Farms in Vancouver

Sierra Magazine

Concrete Farmland.  

Santa Barbra Independent

Michael Ableman’s ‘Street Farm’ Challenges: Founder of Fairview Gardens Pens Book About Urban Farming in Vancouver

Vancouver Metro News

Urban farming success in Vancouver inspires book about lessons, challenges

The Georgia Straight

Green Living: Downtown Eastside’s Sole Food Street Farms help entire city

REAL

Michael Ableman, Victoria Moran & Joel Kahn

Scout Magazine

Top Chefs Gather For An Evening In The Orchard To Celebrate Sole Food Farms

Vancouver Sun

Street Farm tells story of downtown Vancouver’s social enterprise farm

BC BookLook

Michael Ableman’s Street Farm celebrates the transformation of asphalt into market gardens.

Vancouver Courier

Fred UnLEEshed: SEEDING HOPE

Urban Farm U

Michael Ableman on “Street Farms: Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier”.

CBC News

Andrew Chang of CBC Vancouver at 6 interviews Sole Food Street Farm Co-founder and Author, Michael Ableman. 

The Georgia Straight

Local doc explores how to create A New Economy

The Province

Sole Food proves to be soul good for Downtown Eastside

North Shore News

Considering community agriculture

Otago Daily News

Grown closer to home

Radio RoundHouse

Novel Captures Story of Local Urban Farming Project

BlogTalk Radio Cyress Webb

Author Michael Ableman talks #StreetFarm on #ConversationsLIVE

The Frankie Boyer Show

In Street Farm, Michael Ableman shares the inspirational account of residents in one of the worst urban slums in North America

The Morning Show with Patrick Timpone

Farmer and Author of “Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier“.

KZYX “Wildoak Living” – Ukiah, CA

Johanna “Wildoak” talks with Michael Ableman, one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement and the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms.

MISC. RADIO

WFAN/WXRK, NYC, “Viewpoints” , Texas Public Radio “The Source”, WDST “Roundtable”; Woodstock, NY, “Morning Show” WGVU/WGVS FM and AM, WASN “The Louie Free Show”, KRWM “Sunday Morning Magazine”, “Community Matters”, KGNU “Connections”, Denver, WPRK “Front Porch Radio”, “The Bill Newman Show”, WORT “The 8:00 Buzz”, KZYX “Wildoak Living” – Ukiah, CA, KFAI “Northern Sun News”, KCBX “Ideasphere”, San Luis Obispo NPR, KBOO “Locus Focus;” Portland, OR, KBAI “The Joe Show”, Bellingham, WA  , KWMR “Farm and Foodshed Report”, KAOS; Olympia, WA, Nov 17 KAOS; Olympia, WA

Past Media Coverage

BC Business

Congratulations to SoleFood Farm, 2013’s #11 Most Innovative Company in B.C.

Vancouver Sun

A farmer’s journey from California to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

The Tyee

Big Step for Big City Farming: SOLEfood’s new downtown Vancouver site grows food, jobs and the business case for urban agriculture.

BC Living

Inner-city farm in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside provides fresh food and employment for the community. 

Fire and Light Media Group

Meet your Urban Farmer – Sole Food Farms

Growing Farms Podcast

Organizing Your Thoughts for a Successful Farm, Michael Ableman Author and Farmer, Sole Food Farm, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Sun

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson (left) and Solefood’s Michael Ableman (right) plant a fruit tree, on July 7, as they open an urban orchard on a vacant Vancouver lot at Main & Terminal.

CBC George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

From Gas Station To Large-Scale Urban Orchard In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

MONTECRISTO Magazine presents “A Growing Reality: Vancouver’s Urban Farms”

City of Vancouver

Mayor Gregor Robertson reflects on Sole Food Street Farms, a successful urban agriculture initiative in Vancouver that supports the City’s Greenest City goal for creating a healthy, sustainable food system.

Eco Soil – Sole Food Street Farms

Central City Foundation

Sole Food Farms: Work Opportunities in Urban Agriculture

Listel Vancouver – Helping Sole Food Grow

Chef Chris Whittaker of Forage connects with Michael Ableman of Sole Food Street Farms to talk local food and social enterprise.

2012 Land Awards Winner – SOLEFood Farm

SOLEfood’s scalable model addresses land use obstacles to producing significant amounts of food in cities: contaminated soils, paved land, and property that is often too valuable for developers or landowners to devote to a farm.