Urban food gardens need space, resources, volunteers and/or paid staff and plenty of planning if they are to become successful and feed the people they are intended for (Image: Evergreen Infrastructure)
The future of urban farming depends on how we value space
By Michael Casey
Over the past decade, urban farming has gathered extraordinary momentum with it being framed as a clean and hopeful solution for cities wrestling with food insecurity, population growth and the impacts of climate change. The promise is attractive; where someone can take under-used space, stack it vertically or spread it across rooftops, suddenly you can have a decentralised, resilient, hyper-local food system.… Continue reading
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