Over the weekend I visited the South Pearl Farmers' Market where I met Ashleigh Quillen, graduate student in the University of Colorado Denver's Landscape Architecture program. Ashleigh is not only a student of landscape architecture, but her and fellow classmate, Ryan Sotirakis, have developed an interesting concept for the urban farm growing a vegetable garden in the back of a 1966 Ford F250. Using technology found in green roofing systems, Ashleigh and Ryan were able to retrofit the truck bed into a mobile garden containing all the essential ingredients for fresh salsa (tomatoes, various peppers, cabbages, shallots, Spanish yellow onion, cilantro and Boxwood basil). While planting a garden in the bed of truck may not be every gardener's dream, it has helped to highlight the importance of œurban agriculture and locally-grown produce. More information can be found on the Denver Urban Truck Farm blog by clicking here.
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