An innovative urban farm in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood is going even more hyper-local than a farmers' market by growing carrots and kale on the very blocks its customers live on. Elana Evans, an urban farmer, along with her business partner Maddy Clerk, run City Beet Farm. City Beet Farm sells the excess produce through a vegetable box program which runs during the summer months from June to October. Elana Evans of City Beet Farm. Currently, City Beet Farm farms 15 properties, and 80 members have signed up for the vegetable box program.

Source: CBC News May 26, 2019 19:52 UTC