Urban Farming is an international non profit based in Detroit, Michigan that is bent on eliminating hunger and ensuring that everyone eats healthy by planting food in unused city land and empty spaces and giving it to those that need it. What an excellent idea for a time when people are struggling with foreclosures, loosing their jobs and gas prices are soaring. These farms are unfenced and anybody can come by and harvest and take home what they need.
Check out the Urban Farming Trailer from the Urban Farming web site and read how these Farms take root on NPR.
That is such a beautiful idea. I wish we could have something similar here in Kenya where we have so much idle land and starving masses.
When I first got online, I got online because I thought that there weren’t people doing meaningful things to make this world better….clearly I just wasn’t looking. The number of amazing projects like the one above I learn about daily are amazing.
Well, Kelly, you always wanted to farm, perhaps there are some patches where sukuma can be planted.
Mwangi, I’m thinking something like this would be a good way of giving back directly in my line of work. I actually farm even now, but it’s commercial…I should think about those patches.
At the very least its worth conducting a micro test or feasibility study and writing or blogging about it. Not a bad way to spend a weekend.
Mwangi, I think I’ll do that sometime. lol..you’re challenging me to do something constructive for the weekend? Weekends are mostly spent being pointless, as payback for too much work over the week.
@kelly: You know the reality of working a constant 9-5 is so far outside of my headspace that I sometimes forget that there are folks who do that as opposed to agency work or online gigs like myself lol.