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Scaling up Urban Agriculture

Submitted by Other Worlds on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 12:00

One of the arguments that proponents of industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops make is that local and organic is nice and all, but your neighborhood garden can’t possibly feed the world. Some urban farmers are beginning to prove them wrong, and in the process, they are changing the way we think about food and cities.

In the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, visionary urban farmers have converted the roof of a warehouse into a 6,000 square foot organic farm. After hauling up over 200,000 pounds of soil and 1,000 earth worms, the farm is now producing veggies for local restaurants. Their example shows that we haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of what is possible when we re-imagine the ways we think about the cities we live in and the food we eat.

Read more about the farm on the City Farmer website.
 

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