Cultivatis is Urban Agriculture!
Sustainable
Agriculture and
Local Food
WHO WE ARE
A classic tale of good -vs- evil? ..Well not quite, but truly a great story that is entering a new chapter as we look to to help clients change their way of thinking about the built environment. We would love to share our tale with you over a nice meal and glass of wine, but as an introduction our short bios should suffice for now.
The "Polinator"...Aaron Newton is the coauthor of A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil. He is a land planner and a participating farmer at the Elma C. Lomax Incubator Farm in Concord, North Carolina. He helps operate Cold Water Creek Farms, a Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA) serving forty families locally. Aaron is the co-founder of Groovy Green and Hen and Harvest, two online journals discussing issues related to food, energy and the environment. He rides a bike and helps his wife raise two daughters.
The "Polinator"...Aaron Newton is the coauthor of A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil. He is a land planner and a participating farmer at the Elma C. Lomax Incubator Farm in Concord, North Carolina.
He helps operate Cold Water Creek Farms, a Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA) serving forty families locally.
Aaron is the co-founder of
Groovy Green and Hen and
Harvest, two online journals
discussing issues related to
food, energy and the
environment.
He rides a bike and helps his
wife raise two daughters.
The "Planner Guy" ... Todd Serdula is a NC Registered Landscape Architect (RLA). He received his BLA from SUNY ESF and has over 15 years of extensive residential community planning and project design / management experience. Todd gets much of his aesthetic and community design influence from the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of Central New York. He was never more than a short ride in the back of his dad's pickup from the region's many roadside produce stands, dairy farms and vineyards. A self proclaimed "Native" of Charlotte now, Todd enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter cooking food that they grow in their front yard victory garden.
The "Planner Guy" ... Todd Serdula is a NC Registered Landscape Architect (RLA). He received his BLA from SUNY ESF and has over 15 years of extensive residential community planning and project design / management experience.
Todd gets much of his aesthetic and community design influence from the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of Central New York. He was never more than a short ride in the back of his dad's pickup from the region's many roadside produce stands, dairy farms and vineyards.
A self proclaimed "Native" of Charlotte now, Todd enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter cooking food that they grow in their front yard victory garden.
www.anationoffarmers.com
WHAT WE THINK
Let's be honest, conventional land development patterns turn farm fields into subdivisions. Some of these subdivisions have nice pools and tennis courts but that doesn't change the fact that these subdivisions are really just houses sitting in the middle of an old farm field.
But what if a portion of that farm field was put to use doing what it does best - growing food! Now we're talking about an alternative amenity - something genuine that will likely draw people into the community.
Local agriculture is experiencing a resurgence. Increasingly people want to know where their food comes from and how it is grown. What if we changed the current model of community planning & urban design to include agriculture? What if we looked to the past for the answers about how to best plan for the future of our communities? What if tradition could be married to innovation and thoughtful technologies?
Cultivatis is committed to helping answer these questions by designing agriculturally focused sustainable communities and environments. We want to share the opportunities that exist to reshape land planning in a way that makes communities more sustainable, more self sufficient and better places to live, work and grow.
WHAT WE DO
Cultivatis is a full service design and consulting firm that assists Municipalities, Developers, School Systems, Healthcare & Religious Institutions, Land Owners and even Homeowners develop sustainable design solutions for their properties. Our focus is on helping these groups integrate agriculture and resource conservation measures into the fabric of their project's design.Our core services include:
Cultivatis is a full service design and consulting firm that assists Municipalities, Developers, School Systems,
Healthcare & Religious Institutions, Land Owners and even Homeowners develop sustainable design solutions for their properties. Our focus is on helping these groups integrate agriculture and resource conservation measures into the fabric of their project's design.
Our core services include:
>Agricultural Urbanism Planning & Design
>Sustainable Food & Environmental
Systems
>Farm & Garden Design / Implementation
>Public Facilitation, Community Engagement
& Design Charette Workshops
>Project Identity / Marketing & Graphic Design
WHAT WE LIKE
Call us "Cage Free", we like to roam the web searching for little nugetts of e-fodder. Below are some of our favorite morsels... Enjoy!
Powering Down
CONTACT USPlease feel free to contact us any time to learn more about our ideas and how they may help you and your project!
CONTACT US
Please feel free to contact us any time to learn more about our ideas and how they may help you and your project!
Aaron Newton
Founding Partner
Aaron_Cultivatis.com
704.904.1216
Todd Serdula, RLA
Todd_Cultivatis.com
WHAT'S ON OUR PLATE...
Charlotte's First
Urban Farm!
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