Posts Tagged ‘Urban Farming’
September 7th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article from Baby Creative’s Blog, August 23, 2009:
As the name suggest it is a living, mobile garden inside the bed of a 1986 Dodge half-ton pickup truck, parked on the streets of Brooklyn (US) which grows tomatoes, broccoli, arugula, and parsley. Would love to see something like this on the streets of London, maybe we will do it ourselves?
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September 7th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article from The Huffington Post, September 4, 2009:
Urban farming is not new — its been a way to feed cities for thousands of years. But in the US, it was purposely planned out of our cities, even as they grew bigger and, as a result, hungrier. Now many of our cities contain massive sprawl, which have created new opportunities in the form of abandoned lots, a consequence of the economic downturn. But we also have a mobilized movement of individuals interested in feeding people, especially those without access to healthy fruits and vegetables (many of whom reside in cities). But connecting these dots is sometimes more complicated than it seems.
