Academic Courses

Our team comes from very diverse academic backgrounds; among us, there are artists, scientists, engineers, chefs, farmers, designers, accountants, and more. And yet, we wonder how come we all missed the class about the very basic knowledge we need for our survival: How to grow our food, how to manage our waste, how to protect and promote ecosystems that allow us to stay healthy and happy. 

 

Our goal is to fill this gap. While designed for gastronomy departments, our semester-long courses can be easily adapted to accompany many different fields of study to provide students a different and, in our opinion, quite vital perspective on how to think about their future profession. These courses that combine theory with practice can take place in one of our urban farms or in a farm on campus, which we would happily design, build, and maintain for the educational institution with discounted academic pricing.  

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Corporate Programs

With Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), EU regulation now mandates large corporations to report on sustainability metrics, including environmental sustainability. Companies that are governed with the aim of maximizing stakeholder welfare–and not just shareholder wealth–will have an easier job complying with those reporting requirements. We believe that the ones that actually internalize social equity and environmental sustainability goals will be in the best position to turn those requirements into opportunities. 

 

We offer workshops that are designed to raise awareness on key issues relating to environmental sustainability while giving corporate employees practical skills in enhancing their quality of life in the urban environment. We also happily advise corporations on how to utilize available spaces and resources to become part of the solution for the climate crisis we are facing.

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Individual Workshops

Our workshops are based on our experience accumulated over the past eight years running indoor and outdoor urban farms of various scales, and serving farm-to-bowl food in our eateries with a zero-waste mission. While we still keep experimenting and learning, we also are more than happy to share our know-how. It is clear to us that our dream of leading a healthy, enjoyable, and sustainable life in our big city can only come true when a large enough portion of our fellow residents here starts making informed and deliberate choices every day…

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Kids' Workshops

Kids are our responsibility and our hope! We as their parents and grandparents have created a lot of problems for them. Now our responsibility is to encourage them to figure out how to deal with those problems, and hope that they somehow will. The good news is that kids are inherently curious and quick-learners. What we would like to do is to tickle their interest in the relevant topics. We would like them to see that when they understand nature and work with it, rather than against it, they can come up with ingenious solutions for many of their (and our) problems. 

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Academic Courses

Urban Farming for Future Chefs

This course emphasizes the benefits of local, organic and sustainably-produced food on the wellbeing of individuals, communities, and our planet.

Future chefs will have to know much more about the ingredients they are using than how to procure, prepare, cook, and plate them. Society's expectations of food's "quality" is evolving, and it now includes questions about how local it is, whether it is organic, and how sustainably it was produced.
By teaching future chefs how to grow food, we aim to have them think about some critical issues when creating a menu, and equip them to ask the right questions when sourcing ingredients. We also teach techniques to reduce waste, but our hope is that the biggest gain on that front would come from the appreciation of what it takes to grow our food locally, organically, and sustainably.

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Urban Farming for Future Astronauts

This course emphasizes the benefits of local, organic and sustainably-produced food on the wellbeing of individuals, communities, and planets.

Urban farming provides a growing employment opportunity to anyone studying agriculture, architecture, design, engineering, natural sciences, or business as it relies on multi-disciplinary teams to create and implement viable solutions. With emphasis on different aspects of the curriculum depending on the student body, this course aims to provide an answer to why we would want to, and how we could manage to grow food in urban environments. With specific examples, students will see how their chosen field is relevant to solving issues related to environmental sustainability and quality of life in big cities.

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Academic Courses

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Corporate Programs

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Spending a few hours a week on an urban farm, and learning about permaculture while watching seedlings grow and food waste turn into compost is a mind expanding experience.

Urban Farming & Rural Eating

This is a condensed course on how we can improve our relationship with food while living in a big city. The basic idea is growing food in the urban setting while consuming it as if we are in a rural area not contaminated by industrial farming and flooded with highly processed products.

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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Introduction to Permaculture
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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Soil and Compost
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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Seeds
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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Window Farm
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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Hydroponic and Aquaponic Systems
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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Zero-Waste Kitchen
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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Bokashi Compost
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Urban Farming & Rural Eating:
Medicinal Herbs and Tea
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Individual Workshops

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Our workshops are based on our experience accumulated over the past eight years running indoor and outdoor urban farms of various scales, and serving farm-to-bowl food in our eateries with a zero-waste mission. While we still keep experimenting and learning, we also are more than happy to share our know-how. We know that our dream of leading a healthy, enjoyable, and sustainable life in our big city can only come true when a large enough portion of the population living here starts making informed choices every day...

Kids' Workshops

Insect Hotel

In the city, adults are scared of insects. Or disgusted. But kids are much more open minded and curious. Insects are certainly a indispensable part of a vibrant ecosystem. In farming, they play a crucial role as pollinators or predators of pests. This workshop is about communicating this message with a fun and certainly useful activity of building an "insect hotel."

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Seed Ball

There is something mischievous in dropping something on the ground, intentionally, maybe while nobody is looking... In this case, however, it's something quite harmless--on the contrary, if done correctly, it brings an explosion of life into a small patch of land. While having fun making those seed balls, we talk about what a seed is, how it germinates, and eventually grows into a plant that feed us.

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Self-Watering Pot

We are consuming too much beverage in plastic bottles. Some of those bottles are getting recycled, but certainly not all. In this workshop, we turn plastic bottles into self-watering pots to grow edible plants. We don't think we can solve the plastics problem this way, but hope we can create some awareness on the possibilities of up-cycling as well as on the need for avoiding plastic bottles in the first place...

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Kayıt Formu (Kids)

Registration form: Kids' Workshops

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