Courtesy Brian Kraft
Until recently , Rodman Schley appeared to be your distinctive urban enterpriser , leading stage business meetings with a Starbucks cupful in handwriting and navigating the streets of Denver in his BMW convertible security . These days , however , Schley is get to know some anything - but - typical neighbors — folk who have made sustainability a style of life — as he seek to slenderize the size of his own C footprint .
His reeducation is being caught on television camera inThe Urban Conversion , a documentary serial Schley is producing with Timothy Nyman of Denver - base production studio Blue Fusion . bill as “ an urban homesteading guide for dummies , ” the serial publication follows the self - proclaimed bourgeois city - oilskin as he engages in what he predict “ extreme green ” urban - farming experiences , often with hilarious results .
Schley ’s married woman , Gina , was the impetus for the show .
“ She ’s more sustainable , more fleeceable , ” he explains .
Wanting to move beyondcompostingandbackyard horticulture , Gina gave her married man two choices : corrupt a farm in the land or land the farm to the metropolis . Rodman prefer for the latter , and the serial publication documents his encyclopedism process as he turns this urban - farming aspiration into reality .
InThe Urban Conversion‘s buffer sequence , Schley ( fecklessly ) milk agoatand cleans out thechicken coopat Sundari Kraft ’s Denver backyard farm . A video on the show ’s YouTube line documents Schley ’s trip to Colorado Aquaponics , where he discover the Immigration and Naturalization Service and outs of another kind of urban farming .
Schley ’s goal is to have the ultimate extreme - green lifestyle . Currently , he ’s cooperate with Moss Owl Studio to build what he calls “ the sodding urban homestead”—one that is “ as extreme as possible . ” The homestead is more than just a project , he say : “ It ’s a dwelling that I ’ll be build for myself and my category . ”
Thanks toThe Urban Conversionand the homestead project , Schley say his young daughters , Sophia and Cecilia , will know a altogether different puerility from the one he experience .
“ We just did n’t roll in the hay , ” Schley says of his own propagation ’s savvy of agriculture and sustainability . “ There are so many thing we did n’t get to see when we were tyke . ”
Even though the Schleys will be taking gullible to the extreme , Rodman allege even casual environmentalists can learn fromThe Urban Conversion .
“ You do n’t have to do all of these thing to this degree , but maybe you’re able to do something , ” Schley says . “ go immature does n’t have to be inconvenient . ”
The Urban Conversionwill feature urban James Leonard Farmer from across the U.S. and is still looking for a web to call home . ( Schley and Nyman began pitching the series to goggle box execs in late 2010 . ) In the lag fans can follow Schley ’s extreme - green adventures onFacebook , YouTubeand on the show’swebsite .
